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Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by GutsBerserk@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Epic Games plans to give away 17 free games during its annual holiday sale for the Epic Games Store, the company announced on Wednesday.

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[โ€“] Matty_r@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Its not about the sales at that point (obviously), its about bolstering the user base. Everything boils down to advertising these days. The more people they have registered on their platform, the wider advertising audience.

[โ€“] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

Do Epic advertise anything other than their own games on their store?