Epic Store users are being blocked for too many purchases, and here's why

It appears as though Epic blocks accounts of users who buy too many games too quickly. The company stated it was part of its attempts to stop fraud.

[Blu3_Berry]

So consumers are punished for making legit purchases. I'm sure people would love to buy multiple games at once, yet the store doesn't even have a f**king shopping cart. You must make one purchase at a time. What a f**king joke. Add in the fact that China is known for the worst security in the world, so in a way this makes me very worried what would happen when they do add a shopping cart.

[harmny]

News flash: cold war is over.

People like me who are neither from China nor USA laugh when we hear you talking about China like USA doesn't gather information from everyone. the NSA are saints, lol. And that's excluding Google and Apple and all the silicon valley companies that know everything about you.
Nothing will happen when they add a cart

[Elwenil]

Paid shill account here...

[MrBitch]

Cold war had nothing to do with China.... Also the spying is on other Governments not usually on civilians, while the NSA is shit they usually wont steal your credit card like scam artists taking advantage of shitty Epic Store security.

[PapaBop]

Cold War might be over (not sure how that's relevant here anyway) but there is definitely a lot going down in the cyber space between China and the West. You must have been living under a rock if you haven't heard anything about Huawei in recent months. That's just the widely reported stuff.

[blacktiger]

I know right, Americans are against Russia and China as if they are any better. I say within few years they going to incase and commit genocide. What's new right?

[knickstr]

What does bad security have to do with the cold war?

[Lividgravy]

Ouch.....but true

[warriorcase]

I see people reference Tencent and information gathering because they own a large stake in epic but never see any mention to the other 700 companies they are also invested in including Ubisoft, Take 2, Reddit and not to mention the 20 foreign subsidiaries they own like Riot Games. They are invested in social media, food, hospitality, utilities, gaming, transport and nearly everything else. People say they avoid epic because of the Tencent boogey man but are probably already investing or supporting another one of their revenue stream already. Tencent is the Chinese Disney with fingers in every pie.

[rainslacker]

Epic games isnt a Chinese company. They're based in central North Carolina. Tencent's owns part of epic, but they operate autonomously like many Tencent companies. Tencent isnt collecting any information on you that they likely dont already have from any number of other places you likely think are trustworthy.

[Goldenarmz]

This happens in most places, make to many big purchases via Credit/Debit card and see how quickly your bank cuts you off. This is nothing new.

[W34KN35S]

"but but all you have to do is click on another store launcher icon .... its no big deal " /sarcasm

[killswitch80]

when they adding the cart you will be able to buy multiple games at once. Stop making a big deal out of nothing. These are the reasons I am switching to Epic Store mostly. At least it won't be filled with toxic cry babies. Just a bunch of chill people that love to play games and not act like spoiled children trying to fight some fake war.

[BIGBushido]

Shopping Cart: Long Term Goal according to Epic's roadmap.

[Gwiz]

Buying games in large quantities being banned an attempt to stop fraud.
Hmm so you're admitting now your service is easy to hi-jack Epic?you don't say?

[Larrysweet]

Anyones service is easy to hijack next excuse for hating on digi store takes 2 secs of time to load

[rainslacker]

It's not hijacking to use fraudulent information to make credit card purchases. I'm sure the blocks would be removed once the account was verified.

I've had Amazon put a freeze on my account when I made too many purchases once. I like to have all my preorders on their own purchase because it makes it easier to sort while waiting for them, and recieved games drop off the open order list. Since I use prepaid credit cards for online purchases, it got flagged as a potential scam. This protects the company, and even the user.from being responsible for fraudulent purchases.

So stop with the fear mongering. It's getting old that people can't focus on the real issues that could improve EGS, and instead go around making snarky comments and if they somehow got a one up on Epic. I've never seen a.community turn on another company as quick as they have on epic. They were once considered one of the best developers and engine makers out there, and commanded respect, both in the community, and the industry. Now people act like they are the devil incarnate just because they decided to compete with steam, and buy up exclusive games.

I have no bone in this fight. I dont really use either service, but a lot of these kinds of idiotic comments are the kinds of things which distract from valid criticism, and makes it so people dismiss valid criticism or those who make it, because everyone gets lumped into the irrational haters group.

[Godmars290]

Guess this is what you get for trying to outright buy customers rather than earn them through good will and service.

[harmny]

Gog has good will and service. And nobody buys from them.

[Gwiz]

Also the industry at large avoids them,but it's not entirely true.
The Witcher 3 sold a lot on GOG as well.

[MadLad]

I have over 100 games on my account ..

[2pacalypsenow]

Umm people buy from GOG all the time, they have all the classic games.

[Seafort]

I have 200+ games on GoG and 1600+ games on Steam. You were saying?

[Skuletor]

Just bought Blood: Fresh Supply last week and have over 100 games on GOG myself.

[IanTH]

I also don't see the sale prices that include the $10 off anymore. I did grab one thing before the prices reverted, but this whole sale has been one huge cluster.

[Larrysweet]

Its there at checkout...yall fuss fuss fuss

[IanTH]

I do see that the discount is now applied when checking out. They changed it from how it was initially without any kinds of heads up - just adding another touch of confusion to the whole process. I assume they did this to appease developers by making their games appear to have the MSRP upfront while still providing the discount.

I ain't fussin'. If I was fussin' about Epic, I wouldn't have bought anything from them in the first place. But with devs being caught off guard, games getting pulled from sale, prices of games like Hades changing 4 different times, the way the sale prices appear and are applied...I mean, I can't see how you could classify this sale as anything other than a cluster lol.

[rainslacker]

I agree. I think epic should have asked these pubs and devs if they wanted to participate. That's how steam sales are. Pubs or devs get noticed of an upcoming sale event, and they can opt in. Depending on the sale, steam either reduces its cut, or just takes the standard cut.

The power of the pricing should always be in the publisher of the game for these kinds if services.for many reasons....some of which are contractual on the publishers end. Even if they dont lose out in actual revenues. If epic wanted to have a sale, just do a general coupon on the purchase of anything.

[XabiDaChosenOne]

Imagine being kicked out of gamespot for buying "too many games"? Teh future is digital!!!

[Xaevi]

The butthurt is strong in the comments, hilarious

[Majin-vegeta]

So...no different than your credit card company.Why are people butthurt again?

[rainslacker]

Amazon does this. I heard that Sony will, and it certainly happens with apple and Google. I'd imagine ms has similar failsafes.

Things like this protect the company from too many chargebacks which can cause their cc processing costs to go up, and it protects the customer from fraudulent charges. It's really nothing new, and can be initiated by the cc company. In fact, if a single company gets too many charges from a single user, they may initiate an investigation that the company has.to provide proof that its legit.

[XxINFERNUSxX]

Just go to RARBG or 1337x and be done with it.. smh.

[MWH]

sounds like the management is a mess in this section of the company.

[AllMightyFox]

Epic keeps having reviews paid for to claim their taking the lions share of the market and this is further proof that Epic is trash and stop writing reviews that claim they're great ….

Companies won't do sales we request …. We made money and postponed all our roadmap … we're getting in bed with Microsoft … we'll stop exclusive deals if Steam agrees to charge developers an amount we came up with …. etc.etc.etc.

Epic Store, Epic Games, and Epic fan boys are all a sad minority that is trying to fluff it's appearance by using money to generate a huge bullhorn to make this small pathetic group seem larger than it is …..

It's a small group of bad people who are based in anti-consumer practices and they shouldn't receive community support from the community of gamers they are trying to rob

[Goldenarmz]

This is nothing new, make too many big purchases at best buy and see how quickly your Bank locks you out. Kids these days, know nothing.

[Cmoney007]

Epic defenders: Get that Epic d*ck while it is hot!

[Soybetaboy]

Good on them, there just want the best for consumers.

[Hilltop678]

That's funny. Somedays I spend $200-$300 on digital games in one day (expensive hobby). Thank God I never brought games off epic.

[AnubisG]

How do you guys like that digital only future you all crave so much? Enjoy it guys!! Enjoy it because all of you on PC did this. 🤣