Epic Games Store is about to give away a free AAA blockbuster, possibly Cyberpunk 2077

A blockbuster AAA is waiting for gamers next week.

A year ago, Epic Games Store suddenly gave away the blockbuster game community Grand Theft Auto 5 for free through a mysterious gift. And as usual, next Thursday, Epic Games Store has revealed a mysterious free game for the worldwide gaming community.

Specifically, after the free game The Lion’s Song last Thursday as usual, Epic Games Store has made the gaming community feel extremely curious because the next game has never been revealed but is a new game. Mysterious countdown timer. This is not the first time Epic has made the gaming community so curious, when last year Epic Games Store gave away blockbuster GTA 5 for free in a similar way. This makes the gaming community question whether Epic Games Store is preparing to give away a big AAA game like GTA 5 last year for free? What is the game distribution platform trying to do?

Since its launch, Epic Games Store has become the subject of much attention and controversy of the gaming community. Many comments criticize the fact that game manufacturers switch to exclusive publishing on the Epic Games Store, some gamers are still aggressive, making excuses to cause trouble, there are even threats to cooperative game developers. with Epic Games Store. However, all opinions have changed 180 degrees since Epic Games Store released the strategy of giving away free games.

The store’s generosity has long been a favorite of the gaming community, with a number of major titles given away for free over the past year such as Alien Isolation, Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Jurassic World: Evolution, Watch Dogs 2 and Borderlands : The Handsome Collection. Many people wonder how much Epic spent buying these blockbuster games and then giving them away to its customers. Recently, an insight into the financial budget of the platform was provided, with the legal battle going on between Epic and Apple.

According to publicly available documents, Epic spent more than $11 million giving gamers free games in 2019. Specifically, they spent a whopping $1.5 million to buy the Batman Arkham trilogy. giving to gamers, and at the same time reducing $ 1.4 million for Subnautica and another $ 1 million for Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. It is estimated that in 2020, Epic Games Store has spent nearly 1 billion USD (~ 23 trillion VND) to give away free games. This is not a small amount of money for any distributor. And perhaps at the moment, only Epic has the potential to do that.

Currently there is no information about the free game in this mysterious gift event of the Epic Games Store, but many gamers speculate that it could be blockbuster Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3 or even Even Resident Evil: Village just came out. Let’s also wait for life until the countdown ends on May 20.

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