Epic Games’ free gifts have always been a nice little addition to your game collection. This Christmas, too, the platform gave away a game every day. On December 25th, players could hardly believe their eyes. At 5:00 p.m. the little door opened and the Director’s Cut of Death Stranding was hidden behind it. But it wasn’t all planned that way, says Epic Games now.
A bug by Epic Games gave some players a bigger gift
It didn’t take long for players to swarm the Epic Games Store. The servers crashed. After all, the Death Stranding Director’s Cut is new, from this year, and it adds new features, modes, and items to Kojima’s title. So it was interesting not only for newcomers, but also for players of the older Standard version.
After just an hour, Epic Games changed the gift to the normal version of Death Stranding from 2019. That’s actually how it was planned. Nevertheless, the Epic Game Store was still stuck for me two hours after the free game was unveiled.
We’re currently investigating an issue that may cause players to be unable to login to Epic Games services.
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Anyone who manages to grab the Director’s Cut within the first hour can keep it. Who, like me, snowed into the store later, was unlucky.
An employee is said to have wrapped the wrong version of the game in the digital wrapping paper and put it in the store as a gift. Epic Games itself was actually only allowed to publish the standard version for free. The company stated in a statement on Weibo. However, customer support reps confirmed that the Director’s Cut is actually the free game and not the standard version.
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