![[PC] Free - Grand Theft Auto V @ Epic Games](https://files.cheapies.nz/n/14/23514.jpg?h=80034580)
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[PC] Free - Grand Theft Auto V @ Epic Games
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taeken on 14/05/2020 - 21:18 epicgames.com (1783 clicks)
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Was wondering if the secret meant it was a big deal but didn't quite expect it to anything like be GTA 5.
Although to be fair, I assume they make a lot of their money on microtransactions well um shark cards which aren't that micro. I guess the fact that despite that they were still able to keep such a high regular price despite this and sell so well after all this time is testament to how unusual it is. Mind you the shark cards thing is an interesting point. I wonder if Epic is actually paying anything for this? One possibility is they just offered to take well below their normal 12% cut for shark cards.
I guess this also means that anyone planning to just ignore the free games due to the 2FA requirement for 3 weeks is likely to be seriously reconsidering, they obviously planned it this way.
Most of GTA5 revenue now are those Shark Cards; buying GTA money is a waste of time however since you can just use a free modded menu like Kiddion's Modest Menu to give yourself unlimited funds; sure you could get banned, but the game is free!
do you have a link to download the mod menu? i just want it for the money
You've piqued my interest, tell me more ahaha
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Looks like the epic site is down.
I redeemed it from the epic launcher, i couldn't get to the website either
It died at 3am when it started. I thought it would recover after 30 minutes, but was still dead at 5am. I mean maybe PC launcher worked I don't know never tried. But the main part of the website would get 500 every time or it was 403 on my phone. Admittedly I didn't try directly to GTA V. I wonder if that would have worked, the URL was fairly predictable. (Fortnite store page seemed to work.) Funny that it had problems for so long. Guess it may still be having intermittent problems but seems to be mostly okay now
it's up again
Thanks updated.
down again
Great game, grabbed it even thou I bought it back when it came out. Might be worth a replay with my now much better PC.
Wish they would bring out VI - its been rumored for years - but not even an announcement so far.
Thank you for the information.I would love to give you 2 likes!
RIP server and international bandwidth
Not sure about that, I've started downloading and hitting 90MB/s. I've never used the epic store before but at that speed to download I'll consider using it again.
On gigabit fibre I take it? Epic use AWS I believe so suspect at worse it's just going to Australia not all the way to US. And actually it sounds like they use Akamai for the CDN. So it's probably just getting it from some server in Auckland.
While GTA has obviously been a very big deal, we shouldn't forget how successful Fortnite is. And whenever there's a major update that also causes a massive spike https://www.zdnet.com/article/last-weeks-fortnite-update-hel…
Yeah gigabit all the way.
I've heard about the traffic spikes from Fortnite, it outdid the rugby world cup on traffic. I rarely get over 30MB on Steam so to git 90 was cool, nice to see gigabit be taken advantage of. Hopefully when MS build their new data centre that will get a sitter boost too.
Wonder if this means that Epic scored a deal with Rockstar for like a 6 months exclusive (Other than Rockstars own platform) for GTA 6
got this yesterday morning took a little less then 2hours to download
Then 9 hours to get the Rockstar account verification email.
The reCAPTCHA is harder then the game
Jeez, that's a big one, even on sale the game isn't that cheap.