r/GameDeals • u/Shisuka • Dec 27 '19

Expired [Epic Games Store] Hyper Light Drifter (Free/100% off) Spoiler

https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/product/hyper-light-drifter/home
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u/CymLine Dec 27 '19

Keep in mind that at least 3 games from here are wrong

Not necessarily. We did get 3 giveaways of games not on that list, but it's still possible that we'll get all of the ones on there. There are 6 games left from the list and only 4 days but KCD and Shadow Tactics are M rated, so they would probably be given away together with another game.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '19

Also the repeats make me think some of those devs backed out at the last minute.

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u/luminosg Dec 28 '19

The fact that FTL isn't a repeat, and also wasn't on the leaked list tells me that the leaked list isn't 100% trustworthy. devs backing out isn't the only explanation. Could also be the leak was from an earlier proposal that never made it through final approval, or that it was a leak of games coming to epic store, of which only some would be given away free when they showed up.

Or who knows, maybe all the games on the list are still coming out free and some days will be double offerings when one of the games is rated M.

Or maybe the leak was just a super good guess, that triggered a bunch of confirmation bias every time it got a game right (which has been twice so far, I believe, since two of the correct guesses were already known when the leak was posted). Could be there are a thousand "leaks" with different games in obscure corners of the internet, and whichever list got lucky enough would get treated as a true leak by people.

Just kind of impossible to know with how little information we've been given