The next freebie mystery game from Epic games has been confirmed via Twitter . As usual, live from 1am AEST.
Get Borderlands: The Handsome Collection free on PC until June 4. Yours to keep forever on the Epic Games Store. #EpicMegaSale
You might want to set yourself a reminder for Samurai Shodown Neogeo Collection - available from 12/6 1am.
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Some would even say Epic
@misterpotatomato: Some would even say…. wait, this joke has been done like 100 times, every time there is a good epic deal…
@wisc: Haha thanks. Things can go either way in the comment section, people can say you're beating a dead horse and downvote you, or upvote you because of repeating the same thing over and over again.
I need those upvotes for my sweet internet points
Some would even say Handsome. ;)
Oh what a surprise, didn’t see this coming.
Some how I feel your not being sarcastic, this website has ruined my receptors
Awesome my favourite series. I play on Ps4 but can't hurt to play on PC.
I missed gtav by a day :(
Wow and you had only a whole week to get it.
Didn't find out till day after lol
If your Friday’s aren’t too busy you can just try get in the habit of opening the Epic game store every Friday and claiming the weekly free game.
This is why you should check OzBargain at least once a day… at least the front page deals
Ah shit, here we go again.
Set yourself a weekly reminder alarm in your phone until January 2021.
That's ok, I missed out on Farm Simulator. :p
I really liked no.2 except the dinosaur part, everything took forever to kill. So happy to finally play pre-sequel
Which dinosaur part? You mean the final boss?
You go though that Jurassic park area with lots of robot dinosaurs, I just remember everything taking forever to kill
I am totally lost now and you have me very intrigued. I played plenty of BL2 but I cannot remember anything like that.
Do you know which chapter or the name of the main story mission in that part?
Lizards, robots, crystal creatures and spider things, skags, bullymoks, threshers, people, flying bat things… Can't think of any Dino's.
Dragons… How good was Tiny Tina's dungeon crawl. 11/10.
Maybe he means the Sir Hammerlock expansion. That area is tough if you are under geared.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection (March 2015)
Includes remastered versions of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with all of their accompanying downloadable content. Plus the ability to import your saved games from the original game releases.
Damn time zones! I woke up bright and early to get this this morning. Didnt even think it was the 28th for them, not us.
Got a week, and no limit on the number of keys.
No rush :)
This is kick ass. Thanks
On the same day they release the Borderlands collection for Nintendo Switch! 🤣
Bargain! I have bookmarked this one
Thanks, have played 1 and 2, enjoyed both. Now this collection for the prequeal. Only one missing now is 3.
Pre-sequel kind of sucks, at least the 1st 1/2 (it is as bad as the reviews say). If you can make it past the Australiana cringefest it gets better after that.
After playing for an hour, gee I'm glad I didn't pay for this. This is my first time playing a Borderlands game, and the "Pre-sequel" has turned me off the whole series already.
I'm glad I saw your comment - I will give B2 a try before they both (maybe) go into the junk pile
What was so bad about it out of interest?
@badonde: Aussie bogans on the moon. Bad scripting, bad voice acting, cringy jokes. Quests drags on.
2nd half is much better. Painful getting there though.
The proper Borderlands 2 is great. Very funny, takes a couple of hours to really get into it.
The pre-sequel is a bad expansion pack. It does give does give nice background but yeah the 1st half is hard work.
Saw the rating on Epic site last night for the pre-sequal, decided not to get this free collection. Will wait for 3 to go cheap on sale, maybe in 3 years time…
Already got this from PS+, but free is free :D
You've got a week to get the game. Let's assume the worst, the site crashes again. It's out for ooohh, a whole day. It still gives you 6 more days to get it.
I picked up last weeks freebie Friday afternoon, without a problem. The site ran fine. Sure, it seems they had issues initially, but there's no need to panic or get your knickers in a twist. Wait a few hours or even a day, and things will come back.
Saying someone should lose their job, especially now when it looks like the world will end up in a decent recession, over something as simple as you can't get your free game instantly, is a little mean spirited.
And no, it wasn't me that negged you.
Don’t worry he can see who negged him with his ozbargain premium subscription.
You didn't get the sarcasm last time around, did you??😂
is there such privilege ? :o
They are 7 year old games being given for free.
What does that have to do with the sale of not even year old BL3? Why would that be free?
The load on the site will be identical anyway. When the mystery goes public it will spread quickly and the same number of people will activate it.
Early notice actually helps load because some people might create an account in advance.
@joelmuzz: Well, you saw what happened when GTA V was revealed early.
The only time the website crashed. So your theory of helping the load is incorrect.
The problem was that everybody wanted to have it ASAP so they could download and play for the weekend.
It cost them a lot of money (and time) to sort it out, no to mention the shitstorm on social media.
what the hell are you even talking about? arent you the guy who always posts the epic games freebies one week before? wasn't that an issue when you posted a deal, not somebody else?
@baldur: Then they are actually revealed on Epic itself.
Epic site itself has still a timer.
This was not supposed to be revealed - that is why the tweet was deleted.
Big difference.
Let's throw the dice. China or the US. https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-05/17/1…
@bargainparker: No dice necessary. If the pandemic keeps going in the US Trump will be a goner after November. Statistics and history are very much against him.
I don't think that the population will forget that many dead people in such a short time.
@Lysander: Oh, you think so? Don't underestimate human ignorance. I'd wait until after the elections.
On another note, I wouldn't wait for the elections. I'd take him down now and charge him for killing people. But as it is people are willing to wait for elections to vote someone in/out, yet if you did that as a normal person, oh boy… you'd be in some pretty bad shit.
But, all is fine, as long as I have beer in the fridge and a game on telly to watch. Doesn't matter that I am going bankrupt because I got cancer and can't pay medical bills.
@bargainparker: Well put. I am just waiting to see if he will accept the election results if he loses.
He's just pissed that he missed out on posting the deal.
Yeah, I love when it happens too. He somehow always has a negged comment in the thread. Good shit
My thoughts too. Not even an upvote from him lol
I feel as though every comment he will post in this thread will be negged, while others upvoted.
Upvote this comment because turtles.
It's beyond pathetic lol
@Baebs: Yeah lol
Never expected this level of salt from the guy. I don't think I will ever up-vote his deals again lol
@Scythic: It has got nothing to do with salt - why do you think they deleted the tweet? And if you had read the replies to the tweet before it was deleted you would seen many replies that stated the same sentiment I did - another Epic failure.
@Scythic: Should see how sweaty the fella got when the deal popped up - title and description'll was an incoherent mess with typos everywhere, all so he could be "first."
And the promo wasn't even official yet
@Baebs: I never posted this deal buddy but that's fine. You just keep believing. Better check to see if you are not thinking of the guy who posted based on an unconfirmed leak and rumour.
this. he is the guy who always posts the deal one week earlier now just because the games are more popular, he thinks the servers will be crashed and people will lose their job. lol. "people will lose their job" is one of the most popular and lamest excuses.
@baldur: Can you really not differentiate?
If Epic put on their website: Next week Kingdom Come Deliverance is free that is different to when they do not put the name of the game up but have a countdown timer and then the game is leaked/revealed early by error.
In case 1, they put it up because that is the agreement with the publisher.
In case 2 it is a mystery because that is what is agreed with the publisher and they want people to come and check. Leaking/revealing early negates the foregoing.
The two cases are very different but of course you do not want to see this.
Re people losing their job: I know quite a few people who lost their job due to making mistakes that cost their employer money.
But anyway, all I said is that I wonder how someone who obviously has problems with dates gets to keep a job where getting the date right is important. The losing the job argument was introduced by someone else.
Imagine being this salty about not being first to post a deal on an Australian basket weaving forum lmao
Gotta get them fake internet points
It’s actually a good boost to his CCP social credit score because epic is owned by Tencent and controlled by Chinese communist party so any hit to an increased social credit point will hurt him in the future Chinese takeover of the world that’s why the negs.
not sure why everyone is shit canning you. while i get the sarcasm, i happen to agree with the point. gtav was a shit show, they took ages to respond to the problem and get enough capacity to serve demand.
you have a week to get it, why leak it before the day.
I am not worried about the negs - same people over and over who do this regardless of validity.
In fact better they use up all their negs here - then they cannot do it in other threads.😊
Anything that goes against mob mentality gets negged.
who cannot even get a date
That's a real low blow, you didn't have to go there :-(
God damn it. I bought this on Humble Bundle about a month ago. I should have waited.
So the rumour was true.
I almost bought the complete edition of ark the other day for $30 so this will save me 30$ and scratch the ark itch haha
You made the right choice.
Needs to be confirmed though - they have pulled and changed games before (For the King, Pandemic etc.)
I guess the agreement with those game publishers must have fallen through. Yeah and also ARK hasn't yet been officially announced.
@hollykryten: With For the King it was lost sales I believe and with Pandemic it was also about sales opportunity.
During Covid 19 sales of Pandemic related games have shot up.
Plague Inc is the prime example.
I mean, if I was the publisher or dev I wouldn't be happy about lost sale days. We have seen it with The Witcher 3 which at first was eligible for the coupon and then CDPR told Epic to make it ineligible as it would have cannibised their own sale.
This early reveal will net 2K extra $$$ and Randy will be happy about such a mistake.
If I own BL2 and TPS on steam already and my friends get this, will I be able to play with them or do i need to get the handsome collection on Epic to play with them?
Why not have both?
Worst case you have to reinstall and spend 5 minutes cloning the save file to the Epic install.
Are you sure this will work?
I imagine it would. Borderlands 2 steam stores save file in the users my documents folder. I modified mine plenty of times. Don't see why they would change it for epic. It is just a DRM launcher after all. Game files should be the same even if install location is different.
As for cross play I doubt it as it's handled by steam overlay not external servers.
https://store.steampowered.com/newshub/app/49520/view/170736…
from this update in February, i believe u just need a shift account to play together regardless of steam/epic games account.
edit: not sure how this affects inviting friends, etc.
damn, love Borderlands series, shame i already got them all :) guess it doesnt hurt to have them in epic either.
do you think some people started making many accoutns and adding gta so they can sell it later after for a profit? i bet many people did that shit, i barely had time to add a copy to my library (which i did at the end of the day)
I think there was an article about Epic checking IP addresses or something like that to prevent those people from doing that.
There is also a chance people did that for chesting in the game. If they got banned in one account which they paid nothing for the could just use another.
But I think Epic did something about it.
Weird how Epic are deleting tweets for announcements like these
Not weird - the tweet was a mistake as an employee got the dates wrong.
Announcing early only causes problems for Epic due to agreements with the publishers and their site crashing.
It was totally unintentional as evidenced by the countdown timer on their own website.
What's the deal with epic studios, what card are they playing from Microsoft play book? I mean unreal engine 5 is a stunning real.
But just curious, GTA 5 for life? And now this, maybe gearbox studios has now been given free full access in advance for unreal engine 5, but if that's true what does rockstar get from selling a free copy on epics storefront.
Just curious on the marketing behind it.
Rockstar gets more players on GTA V Online, leading to perhaps more micro transactions etc. Just attempt at milking it further I guess.
If that's true why delist it from gamepass and cannibalise your sales, hell why not just go free2play like cod.
They will get players into the franchise ahead of the release of GTA VI in 2023/2024
The games are 7 years old so have really squeezed out their sale lifespan.
Both are likely joining/joined the various subscription "Netflix of gaming" platforms anyway so their days of being sold for upfront payment are already over.
GTA5 has made far more cash selling shark card currency than on game price. F2P still gets them a few whales.
BL2 introduces people to BL3, which is still a new game on the market.
Yep. Works for crack dealers too.
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Wow. Niice. Cheers