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    Total war Troy is free today

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by yosv211, Aug 13, 2020.

  1. yosv211

    yosv211 Notebook Consultant

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    Go over to epic game store and pick it up fast, its free today only. I picked it up and try it out.
     
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    hacktrix2006 Hold My Vodka, I going to kill my GPU

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    Thanks for heads up
     
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    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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    o_O
     
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    The money goes to a good cause, new solar panels for the sailboat, and maybe half the cost of a new solar charge controller.
    If epic wants to continue giving away free games, I'll continue making new epic accounts and sell them when they have good amount of games.
    I bought a new MSI GE75 laptop with the last round of account selling.
     
    yosv211, Aug 14, 2020
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    killkenny1 Too weird to live, too rare to die.

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    Damn, maybe I should start doing this as well...
     
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    ok, I'm not judging, mostly because it's epic but I would expect this to be completely against their TOS so if you have your own account, there's always a chance they find out and screw that up. Also, is it really that profitable? I did look around at some point and there were ridiculously low prices for accounts with 1-2 new AAA games.
     
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    I usually wait 2-4 months to sell the accounts. I can get any where from $50-200 per account depending on what games where released in those months. Its not a main source of income, I did it to off set the cost for new solar panels and lithium ion batteries for a 32-foot sailboat.
    My last set of accounts I had 10 total, this time, I'm doing over 20. All the money this time, is going to get a new main sail and maybe a new jib or spinnaker sail.

    Each epic account gets their own VM and different IP address. I'm sure it completely against their TOS.
     
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    JRE84 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Excuse me sir but these free new games are usually going for less than 10 dollars on g2a.com some under a dollar. I highly doubt your recieving 200 per account for games that would cost roughly 20 to buy outright. the only exception Iv'e seen in the last 5 years is watch dogs 2 which is going for 20..

    also I have about 200 AAA games and a bunch of ok games and I cannot sell mine with my laptop on the market for 200....NO ONE WILL BUY
     
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