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Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ (www.reddit.com)

submitted 6 days ago by minyaen@lemmy.ml to c/games@lemmy.world

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Way to stick it to em!

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's pretty common. 200+ games and they don't even have payment info for me.

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If something is free, you're the product. They still have all your sweet data :)

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Do you think Steam or GOG isn't collecting data on you?

[–] Cris16228@lemmy.today -2 points 5 days ago

Epic = China :)

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

True, but they are collecting all my data either way since I have an account. I may as well collect the free games.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I'm honestly astonished they don't require payment info on file to collect them by this point - initially it's a way to bribe people into making an account, and now they could bribe a bunch of people into giving payment info and lowering one more barrier to actually buying from them.