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Sale Ends Soon: Get $10 Off Any $15+ Game, Save On Pre-Orders At Epic

Plus, a new free game is available.

By Jenae Sitzes on June 13, 2019 at 6:54AM PDT

The Epic Games Store has been ramping up in recent months, grabbing PC exclusivity for major titles like Borderlands 3, acquiring Rocket League developer Psyonix, and taking a firm stance on its plans to acquire more exclusive titles unless competitor Valve increases revenue share for developers. And now the Epic Store is ready to start offering customers some serious discounts on the games it's curated, as it recently launched its first storewide sale.

Dubbed the Epic Mega Sale, the store is offering markdowns up to 75% off on some PC games. In addition, $10 is slashed off the price of any game over $15, including already discounted games and pre-orders, at no cost to the publisher or developer. That encompasses upcoming games like Borderlands 3, one of its biggest exclusives, which you can now pre-order for $50, and the recently announced John Wick game, John Wick Hex, which you can pre-order for $8 instead of $20. Indie classic Journey is now available to pre-order for PC exclusively at Epic; during the Mega Sale, you can secure your copy for just $5, which is an incredible price for the Grammy-nominated title. Newly released open-world space mystery Outer Wilds is available for just $15 right now.

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Just purchased something from Epic and wish you'd waited? If you bought a game between May 2 and May 15 in the Epic Store, you'll be refunded the difference between what you paid and the sale price. And if you've pre-ordered a game from the Epic Store that cost more than $15, you'll receive a $10 refund within the next couple of weeks. The only exceptions to the $10 off deal are DLC, game add-ons, season passes, and in-game purchases, such as V-bucks in Fortnite.

In addition to all the store-wide discounts, Epic announced its free biweekly game deal is expanding during the Mega Sale, which runs now through June 13. In that time period, a free game will be given away every week--the current freebie is Kingdom: New Lands.

Dates for Steam's 2019 Summer Sale have leaked (once again)--it'll start June 25 and last two weeks--so Epic's Mega Sale seems strategically timed to precede that one. While Steam's sale will no doubt have the greater volume of games, Epic's deals (particularly the $10 off one) are nothing to sneeze at, and it's a good chance to grab cheaper pre-orders on upcoming games and some free PC titles. Either way, June is gearing up to be a great month for PC gamers on a budget.

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You wanna show loyalty to your fans & not just be greedy gerks, then make the next Half-Life game for the fans..you can afford it!

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Thank god this comment section isnt littered with anti Epic rants. I understand the criticism but I honestly believe its a lot of feigned outrage.

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Some people need that Epic d*ck in their life. Pitchford is probably all over that each week. I will not buy into the hype though because certain games will be on Steam later. It is still the platform that I use the most. But it is not the only one.

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It's still a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfIZr38DLSg though.

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Go Epic go!

Got Heavy Rain and Beyond Two Souls. and it's just 10$ each damn it.

I specifically like that the discount is coming FROM Epic money. Thus, the developers still get the same cut. This is unheard of. Kudos to Epic on that and shame on Valve.

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@gargar: I am also getting Detroit. I pre-ordered Control for 17$! and a nice 10$ cut on BL3 pre-order.

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Sale looks really good. Loving the free games so far. I love developers getting a bigger cut most though because game development is rough and I want more people to succeed. People pretend to care when something like Telltale happens but then they throw a hissy fit over Epic creating a new store where devs can get a fairer shake.

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Does anyone know why Ubisoft games are missing? I was looking to get Anno1800 cheaper.

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@STrugglingFool: Good question, I wouldn't mind a good sale on Anno 1800 either.

Weird to see it excluded (but this is down to Ubisoft, not Epic)

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Its not bad :D But most of the games are comming soon:D And thats a bit weird:) Still my choice falls on quantic dream:)

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I might have purchased something through this sale despite Epic's policy issues if their store wasn't complete and utter bollocks. It is no easy feat to design a store that somehow makes Origin and Uplay look like masterful pieces of software by comparison but Epic has done just that. Some basic things that were missing as I tried to take advantage of this sale: Game pages don't list the genre of a title, its developer, publisher, or any other standard pieces of information that might allow me to make an informed purchase. User reviews are not present. User created tags are not present. User ratings are not present, nor are links to critic reviews or ratings. No per game forums or per game discussions. No way for developers to post updates and news. Just overall a major lack of information that makes it all but impossible to make an informed purchase without having to first visit numerous other sites. When you've made a less customer friendly piece of software than EA you have failed.

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@Setho10: They will get better. They have already promised ton of stuff for this year. Give them time, and think about the developers and publishers. They don't even need to PAY for this discount.

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If you bought a game between May 2 and May 15 in the Epic Store, you'll be refunded the difference between what you paid and the sale price.

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Nice. Wish more stores did this.

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@Bread_or_Decide: i bought a game on steam and the next day it went on sale for 30 dollars cheaper, needless to say they offered nothing and said tough luck

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@bigbluebustn: can't you return games on steam if you recently bought them or some shit?

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@bigbluebustn: Well, that's how it goes. You're not entitled to any price cuts. Sales always happen for a specific time frame, and if you miss it then that's bad luck. So what Epic is doing is very nice of them, and certainly makes for good PR. Which is all they're focussing on now. But to expect that everyone does that is ridiculous.

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I still remember when I bought epic games magazine, it has CD/DVD demo games, on those days you can't just buy every game you see, you need to try a demo, and decide what you going to buy next time.

Epic games still cool as old time :D

@ Go at least play games.

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Stop trying to make Epic Launcher a thing, it won't ever be a thing.

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@Decoy77: Except it's a thing, and becoming more of a thing every month.

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@Bread_or_Decide: The Steam launcher has always been a thing, a much bigger thing than the Epic launcher, and when these timed exclusives are over the Steam launcher will be an even busier thing than it already is on a month to month basis.

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@Bread_or_Decide: Perhaps but they are destroying them selfs you should ask your self if the same game its on epic and steam who's shop will you choose:)

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@thremon: who ever is selling it cheaper.

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@thremon: If it was the same price I'd choose Epic because I'd rather the devs get more money than Gaben. It's not like he makes good games anymore. Portal 2 was a decade ago.

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@thremon: I'm not a PC gamer so I don't have to choose. But I know I buy console games from whoever has the best price, I don't care if its best buy or amazon or gamestop. It's just a store, not a cause.

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@Bread_or_Decide: "I'm not a PC gamer so I don't have to choose."

Yup, no choice for you. You can only buy from the eshop with its overpriced games, lack of features and the possibility that you lose access to all your purchased games a generation down the line.

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@R4gn4r0k: Bro, I buy physical games, bro.

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@Bread_or_Decide: Great to hear, more power to you!

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@R4gn4r0k: No he's not only limited to "buy from the eshop with its overpriced games". There are countless retail stores that sell console games.

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@R4gn4r0k: And you don't with Steam? Are you being serious? Do they have some kind of guarantee in place that says that Gabe will keep funding Steam's infrastructure out of his own pocket for the next 50 years or so if Steam ever gets shut down?

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@Atzenkiller: "If Steam ever gets shut down" - you can wake up now!!!

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@Atzenkiller: Steam has stated that if they ever go out of business they will untether the DRM of all Steam games from Steam.

You wouldn't be able to download them again, but they would not cease functioning like every other store's games (except GOG) would.

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@Thanatos2k: That's great, for everyone who's downloaded his whole collection. But not being able to download the games any longer pretty much means that they're no longer available. So this phrase is completely meaningless.

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@Atzenkiller: What does that even mean. Who the hell would buy games and not download them?

I mean, it's better than a physical version - they stop selling it and it's "no longer available." Your console no longer functions due to age and it's "no longer available." But PC games have a far, far, far, far longer period of availability than physical games do.

It's baffling that you're pretending like this is some kind of negative.

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@Thanatos2k: Are you telling me that you have downloaded and installed every single game you've ever bought from Steam on your PC right now and at all times? Just thinking about the gigantic size of AAA videogames today, how many modern games would you be able to fit on your hard drives?

What would you do if Steam suddenly announced that it would shut down? Buy a bunch of hard drives to download and store all those hundreds of games you've bought over the years on them? Don't be ridiculous. Its nice, I guess, to be able to store some of your favorite games that way if the platform ever shuts down, but most of your collection will be gone for good and you won't get your money back either. Unless you really are some hoarder who does try to download every single game he's ever bought on there. I'd rather just download one of those games again whenever I actually want to play them. Hardly illegal if you've already payed for it before. And I can do the same for any other crappy digital game store after it shuts down.

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@Atzenkiller: Sure, I'd back up my stuff. I'd burn them to a series of cheap discs if need be. I'm not sure why you think this is something people wouldn't do.

It's not like console games would keep working if Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo went under. Games would no longer be able to update from the version on the disc, which means no patches and more specifically - no day one patches which most games at this point are completely inoperable without. And games bought digitally would also simply vanish when the console breaks. However, on PC, get a new computer and you can still download your games.

I'm still not sure what your point is.

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@Thanatos2k: Of course they would: you go online with your pc and download a game and emulator to run it on. I've already mentioned that, haven't I? But if you feel like actually going through the hassle of downloading and storing hundreds of games on external drives, then do that. Not like anyone's gonna stop. All I was pointing out is that is makes zero sense in the digital age when anything's readily available and being preserved through torrents and file sharing sites. Those are doing a much better job than Sony & co. ever could. Probably because they're not doing it for the money.

And yes, if you download any games that had patches, then those games are either already pre patched or you can patch them yourself with the patches provided. It's no rocket science.

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@Atzenkiller: I can still redownload the steam games I bought in 2004.

Can you still do that for games purchased on the eshop? Nope

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@R4gn4r0k: Are you talking about Nintendo's eshop? I've only owned a PS3 and 4 and I can still access all of the games I ever bought there. I'm not gonna comment on Nintendo. They do a lot of weird things.

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@Atzenkiller: News came out a few weeks back that Nintendo decided to close down the Wii and WiiU eshop.

Meaning you won't be able to grab anything on the store anymore.

No redownloading of anything you've bought.

So effectively your eshop purchases become worthless once the generation is over and the next one starts.

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@R4gn4r0k: What do you want me to say? The Switch can't play Wii games, can it? And did the Wii even have any hard drive to store games on? What exactly could you buy in that store?

I've bought a bunch of PS3 games on the PSN store, mainly from sales since they're always cheaper elsewhere otherwise. But I won't cry over it if Sony eventually stop letting you download those games because I don't even have working PS3 anymore or a controller. You wanna play games from 2 console gens ago then download an emulator. It's not even piracy since you've bought the game at some point, right? You can't expect that everything will be available forever if there's not even hardware available to play it on.

But I do expect that everything being released from now will be availabe for a long time since the PS5 will have backwards compatibility again. Which means you'll get the same situation as with PC games, where any PC can still run games that came out 10 or 20 years ago. And aside from that there's remasters, so even if I could get out my old PS3 to play some old games again, why would I if there's an upgraded version available for the PS4? Even if I have to pay for it again.

Ultimately you're always throwing money out the window when you're spending it on videogames. You're not investing in some resource that only keeps getting mroe valuable with time. Even any collector's edition garbage is worth shit nowadays cause anyone can own it if he's will to throw money away. And if you've got issues with that, then why are you still buying videogames? Just accept it as a loss in exchange for consuming some media. Cinemas don't let you watch a movie again only because you've payed for it once, so you should be glad that videogames still let you do that.

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@R4gn4r0k: Hence, why physical reigns supreme.

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@Bread_or_Decide: And thats prob’ly the problem you dont have to instal new launcher and give access to your PC for each shop:)

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It's hilarious that Epic is biting into their own revenue in a desperate bid to compete. It's completely unsustainable.

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@Thanatos2k: Yeah, I'm sure they're going broke from it. Or they're actually still making plenty of profits even with sales likes that, cause running a digital games delivers service like this is like a license to print money. You completely avoid retail and their 50% or so cut, no shipping and physical production cost, etc., etc. How do you think Steam got as big as it is and its CEO became one of the richest guys on the planet? Yeah, they must have really had a hard time staying competitive with the major advantages they have over anyone selling their stuff through retail.

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@Atzenkiller: I'm not sure you understood my post. If the sales are greater than 12% and Epic is paying the discount out of their own pocket - they are losing money by definition.

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@Thanatos2k: I'm not sure you understood your own sentence. "If that's the case" doesn't mean it is. But even if it was, it's a marketing campaign. Same as companies spend lots of money on advertising to draw in more customers. You spend money to make back more later. And I highly doubt a sale like this could get them in trouble.

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@Thanatos2k: So now having a sale is a bad thing?

Wow...I better go tell Nintendo Eshop and Steam they're in trouble for having sales all the time.

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@Bread_or_Decide: I didn't say it was a bad thing.

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@Bread_or_Decide: This isn't so much a sale, as a round of Epic-funded discounts with a few games on sale.

Normal sales (for Steam and Nintendo) have the publishers set the discount and take the hit.

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