You may remember that yesterday we first expected you and then confirmed that Epic Games is giving away Death Stranding in its store. There have been rumors since early morning that Idea Kojima’s latest creation (so far) will be the biggest gift in the Christmas campaign of Epic Games, which, like other years, has decided to sweeten Christmas by giving us one game a day for just over two weeks.

When we expected it, you could still get Metro: Last Light Redux, and at the end of the twenty-four hours of Death Stranding, it was FIST: Forged In Shadow Torch that took over, which is why you can get it for free until 17:00 (Spanish Peninsular Time) 27 .December. Now, as good a game as FIST is, it’s clear that its popularity is nowhere near that of Kokima, so we can hope that yesterday’s problems won’t happen again.

Something that surprised me a lot was that, as I told you when I updated yesterday, Epic Games wasn’t giving away the base version of Death Stranding, no, users could get the much newer Director’s Cut edition for free (it debuted on PC earlier this year) , apparently somewhat more expensive, and in addition, he closed the possibility of giving away the basic edition and offering for a small economic supplement the latest and more advanced version.

If you remember the time when Epic Games gave away GTA V and flooded the servers, you probably expected yesterday that this could happen again and you wouldn’t be wrong. After the first few minutes, when everything seemed to be fine, that is, until word started spreading about it, the service became saturated and prevented access. Some of you told us about it in the comments (thanks a lot, by the way!), and the situation dragged on, so we can read hours on the Internet, h.

In my case, as I say in the news, I was able to get the Death Stranding Director’s Cut on the Epic Games Store, but for some reason the game appears in duplicate in my list of games.

But the worst was yet to come, and when service was restored, it was no longer possible to obtain the Death Stranding Director’s Cut, instead giving away the base version of the game… and yes, as we expected this morning, the Director’s Cut update was offered at a special price of just six dollars, as reported PC gamer.

So the big question now is what actually happened? Why did Epic Games switch from one version to another during the store crash? I mean no harm, but it’s hard to rule out the possibility that the initial offering of the Death Stranding Director’s Cut was a mistake, and that when it was identified, Epic decided to discontinue the service, run the numbers, and decide what to do next. further do the process in which it would be possible to downgrade.

In my case, because I was careful to update the news when necessary, I managed to get it in the first seconds of the promotion, although now, when accessing the Epic Games launcher, it shows two instances of the game, something that completely I do not understand. What was your case? Did you manage to get the Director’s Cut or was it just the original version of the game at the time you managed to get the gift?