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Re: FREE GAME: The Stone of Madness [EPIC] -- NOPE!!!!!

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:55 this Thursday (GMT):
>
> Whoops. Scratch that. Apparently this game won't be available until
> /NEXT/ week. That's right; Epic is skipping this week for its new
> freebies.
>
>
>     [I guess the logic is that last week they gave away two games 
>      so that should last us two weeks? Not that's ever been the 
>      case before. Epic's happily given away multiple games one week
>      and come back in seven days to do it again. This change is a
>      first for them.]
>
>
> I normally do the write-up for these games ahead of time so I can post
> as close to the actual release time of the freebies as possible. Thus,
> when I saw the game was still in 'coming soon' mode, I just assumed
> that was because the appointed hour hadn't passed yet. I only noticed
> my error when I actually went to go claim the game for myself and it
> wasn't free. I don't usually bother to actually look at the release
> dates because, well, Epic has trained me to just expect new games
> every week. The release dates were always sort of pointless. 
>
> Not this week though. I guess the Fortnite-money is running out faster
> than expected for Epic. Maybe this year is when they'll quit the
> free-games thing entirely. Who knows what's going on in Epic-land.
>
> Anyway, no free game this week. Free game next week? We'll see.
>
> Shame. I sort of wanted this one.


Try not to fall into Madness :)
-- 
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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