Metro Exodus will be Epic Store Exclusive, Steam Preorders will still be honored
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How anyone can defend this boggles my mind.
I'll take the risk of getting it on Steam but if they fuck us over then Deep Silver is on my Do Not Buy From list with EA and Konami.
Must have been a galaxy brain publisher move.
First you get all the pre-orders on steam, so you loose out less on pre-sales.
Then you make that fat deal with Epic for the sweet exclusive cash.
Now they pull the game from steam just a day before, so all further sales get the better cut on Epic Launcher.
As with many of those exclusive pulls before, its just such a shit move by Epic in my opinion.
Could be a great alternative to Steam if games would publish on both but here we are.
Epic trying to pay as many publishers as possible with the Fortnite cash to get them on their currently still pretty garbage client.
The exclusives being a year long doesn't help with that.
Can't wait for whats happening in a year, wonder how many games go back to Steam, how many will actually release on there by that time.
i dont mind different storefronts but the epic store is shit, guess ill just preorder on steam instead.
people might not remember but when 2033 came out in the uk it was exclusive to physical media and only sold in game for atleast a month
but I wanna buy it
Congratulations, you just fixed a symptom, not the actual problem.
Metro soared to the top of the global top seller list, it seems like a lot of people would rather pay $10 more for it to be on steam
Good job. you went from the store filled with people that buys anything with a sale tag, to a store filled with people trying to max out their vbucks so they don't have to pay for the next season pass.
Having multiple clients isn't a problem, the problem is being locked to a shitty service because companies don't want to try. You aren't given more options in these cases, but rather your options are taken away and replaced without a choice.
Only way to protest is not to buy it people.
But you can’t force different companies to put all of their eggs in steams basket, if you were in their position you’d surely feel that way?
I get get not wanting multiple places for games but until we have only one game developer making games, that’s not a reality we can live in?
Just bought it on steam moments ago before they take it down. Fuck THQ.
Ninja not playing Fortnite results in him getting less viewers and if its anything like Fallout 76 he will probably be asked to be paid a considerable amount to play either Division 2 or Exodus.
Can't really speak about other streamers however.
THQ isn't the publisher anymore, Deep Silver is.
Deep Silver which is owned by Koch Media, which is now owned by THQ Nordic.
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but they're probably involved in this decision somehow.
Well fuck, was waiting for it to pop up on GMG because they're always cheaper, guess I have to preorder from steam while I still can :/
At least I have like $10 in the wallet from selling cards and items
looks like they'll be getting 88% of my $0.00 then xd
After the massive success in pre-order surges for people getting it on Steam before it's locked to Epic until the exclusivity runs out, expect more publishers to drop "oops we're exclusive to Epic in one day!!!" news for a last-ditch attempt to increase sales.
Really, that's the only message they're gonna get from this. Increase prices by last minute dropping Steam so angry gamers pre-order when they previously wouldn't.
Barring anti-competitive legal action the only thing you can do is vote with your wallet. Don't pre-order.
On a guess they didn't accept Epic money and simply said, "We'll put our game on your store too." Which is how actual competition develops.
But Valve needs """competition""" /s
Epic is not publishing the game. The physical copies are sold by the publisher and the decision to do this was on the publisher. As scummy as the stuff around epic store is they haven't done anything wrong legally.
As underhanded as this is, I am interested to see how Valves copes with an alternative that seems to be trying to actively compete with steam, rather than merely subvert it as other publishers have been doing.
Valve does need competition, but so many people don't get that exclusivity stores are not competition. Games are not like carrots or milk or shirts where you're getting basically the same thing from any store selling at the same price even if it's a different brand.
I'm in Walmart buying cilantro as part of dinner tomorrow because it's a little cheaper than the Publix down the road but basically the same quality and experience. Video games do not generally have that same generic quality between them that means you can just shop around between stores despite them having different specific products and get the same experience. If I want the Metro: Exodus experience I have to get Metro: Exodus. I can't get "Trains:Escape" or some shit, and if I do it'll be a shitty ten minute Android shovelware game.
To actually compete with Steam properly, you can't do it by buying up exclusives.
Valve sure as hell isn't going to allow that to happen a second time. Just don't buy it on the Epic store and you're good tbh.
I'm willing to bet that valve are gonna force any publisher that publishes to steam to sign an agreement that they cant pull down the game due to any other deals now.
This is active subversion though. Possibly the most aggressive subversion attempt yet.
Debatable on the "epic hasn't done anything wrong legally"
For the millionth time, this isn't competition. Competition would be having it on both stores but Epic offering it at a lower price or whatever.
https://i.imgur.com/g6f61CP.jpg
From their Facebook post
There's no guarantee the game will sell for less though. There will always be a publisher looking for a bigger slice, and keeping the price as high ("They're used to paying that") with a lower revenue split will inevitably happen. If it happens with Exodus I dunno. Time will tell I guess.
What I mean is most of these publisher clients seem to crop up primarily so that the big publishers don't have to give steam a cut of the sales, as opposed to a sincere attempt to challenge steam's place in the market. Epic however seems to have a greater interest in become a genuine PC platform and is apparently willing to put money towards accomplishing that.
I'm not really interested in the semantics of the conversation. Epic wants a piece of what Valve has and seems willing to spend money to get it. Whether or not it does so in a way that benefits the consumer is a different point entirely. I'm just interested to see how valve responds.
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