Beginning in the present day, the Epic Video games Retailer has a rewards program known as, predictably, “Epic Rewards.” No sign-up is required to take part: Two weeks after you make an eligible buy on the Epic Video games Retailer, you will obtain 5% again within the type of “Rewards” which could be spent on future EGS purchases.
5% of a $60 recreation is $3, which is nothing to sneeze at, until you are presently experiencing seasonal allergy symptoms like I’m. I sneezed at it twice.
As with all of these items, phrases and situations apply. A kind of situations is that Rewards ultimately expire, however they have a protracted shelf life: two years after you obtain them. (25 months to be precise.)
It is good that we’re not underneath speedy stress to spend or lose these Epic Rewards—Epic may’ve gone about this effort to encourage repeat enterprise in a stingier manner. The rewards program provides one other prong to Epic’s aggressive buyer acquisition technique, which additionally consists of timed Epic Video games Retailer exclusivity offers and weekly free video games.
Steam additionally has a form of rewards program, however it would not present reductions. As an alternative, Steam Factors (opens in new tab) could be spent on profile backgrounds and emoticons or to go with different Steam customers by giving them awards.
Epic’s additionally been edging in on these huge gross sales Steam is so well-known for. Together with this rewards program, it simply kicked off 2023’s Epic Video games Retailer Mega Sale (opens in new tab). Together with reductions on particular person video games, Epic is bringing again the renewable 25% coupon (opens in new tab) for this sale—each time you apply it to a purchase order of $15 or extra throughout the sale, you get a brand new one.
You can too earn the brand new Epic Rewards throughout the sale, but additionally after the sale: that is a everlasting addition, not like the coupon, which is certain to the sale.
Shopping for video games certain has gotten sophisticated, however I choose this sort of sophisticated—the sort that ends in us saving cash—to the opposite form of sophisticated, the place video games for some motive want 10 distinct, differently-priced editions.
In the meantime, on Steam, Valve simply launched a brand new free trial system, and sports activities video games are presently on sale within the Steam Sports activities Fest (opens in new tab).
