http://www.pcgamer.com/life-is-strange-episode-1-will-be-free-indefinitely-as-of-tomorrow

Steam Store page http://store.steampowered.com/app/319630/

H: Life is Strange Episode 1 Humble Bundle key from some SquareEnix Bundle
W: offers

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Yay or Nay?

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thanks for info!
so ppl can today make giveaways for their leftovers ^^
http://www.lifeisstrange.com/free/uk

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It's been announced, so it can be set back too.

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Maybe not, looks like you'll be able to get free keys from the Square Enix store on that link? Nothing to stop someone making the giveaway today and adding the keys in a day or two, even if the giveaway were to finish today. Depends how SG want to handle that I suppose. If it was just free through Steam then that wouldn't be a problem.

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If feedback is marked received before keys go free it should be safe? If you GA gets feedback before this time announced in British and pacific time zones, it should be safe CV.
http://cdn.sqexeu.com/files/lis/FreeEp1/Timings.png

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Funny, that page says it's already FREE. :|

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Its misleading as it isn't to be launched till these region timings:
http://cdn.sqexeu.com/files/lis/FreeEp1/Timings.png

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I guess that the value will drop to 0, so it doesn't matter anyway :O

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If your GA starts before game keys or copies actually become free, your GA cannot be set back. Just like it can't be bundled CV if a non-bundled game was GA and it gets bundled before GA ends. So yeah I suppose you can do a GA before game goes free. I had a humble bundle gift link GA starting just last night [20 July] and ended few minutes after midnight. Today seeing this news in the morning I was like WTF WOW. So far the game is still not free. :)
Game will be technically free only today evening UK time. Any GAs ending and marked received before should count. Worst is it gets 0 CV worst come worst.

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I created few king's quest EP1 giveaways last Christmas, few months back EP1 became free and my CV lowered.

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Might be because it must have been backdated as bundled and not due to being free later on.

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Yes, but is this not the same case?

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Game is anyways bundled so CV won't drop beyond bundled. It will be 0.75$ which I got last night. CV dropping due to backdating as bundled from NB and completely losing CV are different things.

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Awesome comment at the bottom of that website ^^

Edit: Comment removed =/

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what a moron

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Yup

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That guy made me laugh from the heart, thanks for pointing him out. :D

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Heh, you're welcome =P

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What was the comment?

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Some guy was raging because the developers decided to release a game for free that this guy had bought years ago. He also talked something about infecting their servers with a virus or something.

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LMHO

Amazing. Thanks for sharing. XD

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You can just tell when someone isn't going to do well in life...

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Lol okay let the guy do that. Despite hearing stories of malware attacks, viruses and the sort can easily be removed. Not like the early 2000s where the least threatening malware can make a PC go bust.

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LOL, raging about a $5 game becoming free!
I'm sure those who bought Evolve (possibly with DLCs) might want a word or two with this genius...

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Heh =D

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You should have posted a Screenshot. Lots of us missed the fun.

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I know :O But I forgot to make one =/

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Thanks for info :)

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50 entries after 5 minutes, great, that people still want to win it :D
thank you for the info

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More because people don't read news feed or announcements and are lazy to be networked? 0_0

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Thanks for the head up.

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No trading here. Also: what do you expect to get for an item that's free now??

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take it easy it is a joke. I have done enough trades here on SG to know where to post them

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well done young padawan

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LOLOL. I offer a steam coupon for your key. ;)

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hope all Episodic games learn from them!

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I think the same happened to King's Quest.

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And Grimm? But it was not forever free but 1 week free.

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Yeah! Bring back the 90's shareware days!

(Not even kidding, it's a business model that can work very well. It got iD and Epic Games a long way to where they are today after all. )

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Free cards for all? Going to see if I can sell mine now before the price drop.

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I really doubt they'll just let everybody get cards for free.

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Well I've sold them now just in case. Was going to sell all my cards one day, might as well start by unloading those 3.

I don't even know if they can differentiate between episode 1 and the whole thing when it comes to certain things on Steam. I know SG can't for that game when it comes to wishlists etc. using the Steam API. Also, I recently had an old key lying around for just episode 1 of Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller that dropped me some cards - shows the full title in the library on that account but it's only in-game that it would be different with only episode 1 to play.

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they still make money off the cards, so, why not?

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Judging by past, when paid games go free, cards start to require some purchases to drop.
So, probably will require purchasing rest of episodes to get licence to card.

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Not necessarily, you can craft boosters and then sell them, that's how the price drops.

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I meant idle-cards since OP asked "free cards for all?".

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In strictly F2P model not permanent click install / activate steam key and keep for life ones like Relic Hunters/Grimm etc.

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That's when you activate cd-key. I'm talking only about adding previously-paid-now-forever-free game to account, like for example Evolve - if you didn't bought it, you don't get cards if you just start it from steam.

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Well, they could set it like Grimm, the first episode is free but drops cards anyway.

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Sell them. Ep 1 is the actual base game so all steam keys will get card drops. I sold all of mine 3 cards today morning itself. Prices will crash once free game is out today evening. You can buy back cheap and make some profit yeah. Grimm is a good example yeah.

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Seems you can launch game from SteamDB link and it appears to be F2P mode as in not permanent to account. So won't get card drops. You can of course make them through gems manually.

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About time, they should just make every single game that has episodes require the first to be free.

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Sooner or later everything will be free or bundled :O

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Humble Square Enix Bundle 4 ;)?

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that's why I refuse to buy from Steam directly anymore. Once you buy shit you figure it is bundled 3 weeks later of course along with more shit you wanted for 1/3 the price you paid.

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Sure I do. I love throwing my money at companies like Squareenix or Capcom so they can spend it on developing more episodic games or games with dozens of DLC.

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Hey! Corporations are people, too, you know?

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+1

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Great logic this is why i do not save for the future or retirement as i know as soon as i do years later i may win the lotto and wasted all that money on saving!!

Your a cheap bastard it has nothing to due with bundles .....hell i am a cheap bastard and why i mostly buy bundle stuff.Though i still at least buy some games on Steam or other places like GMG.

Also that is partly why sales suck more and more because more and more wait for bundle at some point something has to give so either bundles will crash or cheap games will no longer be the norm for big sales either way they will get there money.

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Nice! Episode 1 is a strong start to the game, and I loved all of it (all 5 episodes)

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If I have a friend who has the complete game and I get this in my library I could use the rest of episodes like normally in Family Sharing? ThankS!!

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That's a good question and by experience with with e.g. the Mega Drive emulator on Steam I would say, you will not be able to get your friend's DLC content (Episodes 2-5/Season Pass) in family sharing.

But I think you can remove your licenense anytime and readd it since it is free.

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Well, I actually prefer not to tempt fate with my borrowed Season Pass, not worthy. Thanks a lot, I hope this may help some people else

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Usually, no. The rest of the episodes are considered DLC, and you can never use the DLC at family sharing if you have the base game. It causes all sorts of license-handling issues over the separate accounts.

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Thanks man

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King's Quest is excluded from family sharing, yet my wife sees all the episodes (due to family sharing) after adding the free episode 1 in her library. So I guess it can be hit and miss.

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Yeah, it can only be confirmed if someone actually tries it.

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No. But you can use his complete game as long as you don't get any part of it.

Source: Brother plays my copy of episodic Hitman, no issues whatsoever, he even has access to pre-order DLC, while friend of mine bought Xcom Complete for his son and learned that having base game disallow him from sharing DLC from son.

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Thanks buddy

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A lot of games can be shared but any game that has a 3rd party launcher can not be shared.It can be hit and miss as to what can be shared while most things can some still can not even if it does not use a 3rd party launcher.

As far as DLC goes..

A guest will have access to the lender's DLC, but only if the guest doesn't also own the base game. Guests may not purchase DLC for a base game they don't own. Any player may purchase, trade, earn, or otherwise acquire in-game content while playing a game, but in-game items cannot be shared between accounts. These items remain the property of the account that purchased or acquired them, whether borrowing or lending the base game.

Also region restrictions are still in play and whoever you share your account with be careful as VAC bans do carry over to the person sharing.

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Share happiness and sadness to everyone!

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Yay 20% cooler with if include ep 2-5

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I was going to buy all the episodes when it was on summer sale.
But after I played " The Wolf Among Us " which was overwhelmingly positive, I changed my mind on getting Life is strange because sadly, I didn't enjoy the wolf among us.

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Play the first episode, see if you like it.

It plays every similar to a TellTale game. Those games (and this one) are more about the story, more like an interactive movie than an actual game. not everyone is interested in that, and if you don't like the gameplay, stay away from them.
(also note that The Wolf Among Us is a bit more action-heavy compared to the other similar games I've played)

But if you don't mind the gameplay (or lack thereof), it's the story that counts. Like movies, there are stories that you'll like more, and stories you'll like less. the story of this game is very different from The Wolf Among Us. It's more like a slow-paced indie movie. But really, just try the soon to be free episode one, and then decide

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Utterly different. One of the biggest advantages of Life is Strange was that it was not a TellTale miniseries using the TellTale way of storytelling.

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All episodic games should be like that. Give people a taste of more to come. Although I remember 1st episode was kinda meh...

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I am just kidding. no trading allowed here!

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For those of you that don't know, once you own the first episode, you will NOT be able to enter for the complete game here, only the season pass. Not sure how it being free will affect it.

You can read about it here.

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I think they'll delete "Complete" Edition from buying.

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I hope so.

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What about the people who paid for it? Screw them? They should at least give them some other episodes as a bonus. :P

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yes!

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Baited me into crafting the badge I was saving for the next sale and got the rare emoticon :O

It's nice how they are giving the first episode for free but i wonder if the cards will be included. It's a great game, wish I can relive the game and play again without knowing; and will definitely help them get more sales enticing the players that they have to buy the other episodes in order to finish the game.

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To be honest it's a good thing on SG. Finally there won't be any difficulties between the chapter 1-5 and 2-5 giveaways, that divided up the users by having, or not having the first chapter :)

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If you had the first chapter, you couldn't enter ANY giveaways for this game

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and what will happen with the ones who bought it? at least i bought the ep 1

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you get a f*ck you by the devs i guess?

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Yay

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Hello mate, I want to trade if possible. I know it's free now, but still... Check my profile (I have a thread link there) and you'll be able to see my game list for trade.

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you do not unless you have an alt here. besides trading is not allowed here :O

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¬¬ Then remove the:
"H: Life is Strange Episode 1 Humble Bundle key from some SquareEnix Bundle
W: offers"
It leads to missunderstandings... Unless you are just a troll.

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you are the third in this thread taking the first post seriously. relax it's just a joke and I was basically saying that your profile doesn't have any thread link to a list of games for trade (you have exactly 0 trades - https://www.steamgifts.com/user/ChrisGiraldo/trades ), so I'm not sure who is trolling here

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Profile = Steam profile... I'm a Steam Trader, not a SG Trader.

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we're on SG here wink
nevermind, not going to argue here. thanks for the offer buddy

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reported for joking. no jokes allowed on SG

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