News reports say free games each day until next Thursday.
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It's a (relatively) inexpensive marketing tactic. Some people stick around and become paying customers. This has been a much more effective way at building market share than something like advertising with Google. Even if there is also nefarious intent, which there may be, you have otherwise clearly laid out legitimate reasons for giving away free games.
It is, but its useless when you can provide no other valuable service besides it. The EGS spent much of its existence missing critical features and generally being worse than alternatives in almost every way, including actively destroying consumer goodwill by bribing devs with exclusivity contracts (with many devs also burning goodwill in their responses).
The foot in the door is only useful if you have anything worth selling inside, and for the most part EGS is luring people in just for them to nope back out.
This is why I can't take anti EGS comments seriously. Steam effectively made games exclusive to their platform and has the devs themselves stuffing in spyware and who knows what else.
Forced exclusivity isn't functional exclusivity and the fact that you cannot understand the difference between the two shows how retarded the average EGS fanboy is.
That and apparently failing at properly Copy/Pasting.
The problem is first of all it doesn't matter and you don't know what deals were done behind the scenes anyway. If people want to whine about the Chinese involvement that's a different story but complaining they had to buy it at a different place comes across as petty.
If you think people are EGS fanboys for pointing this out then that's retarded.
Steam doesn't pay or in any way incentivize developers to be exclusive, or try to stop them from selling games on other platforms. It just provides an effective platform. Epic does pay developers for exclusivity.
Tencent bought psyonix, and then removed a game I already owned from steam to try to force me to install their vomitous client to play my game.
If they removed the game that's a consumer rights issue that depends on your country. Valve did that to get people onto Steam and it allows developers to screw around with your games at will.