Metro Exodus Will Be Exclusive to Epic Games Store on PC, Steam Pre-Orders Will Be Honored

[Burnouts3s3]

https://nichegamer.com/2019/01/28/metro-exodus-will-be-exclusive-to-epic-games-store-on-pc-steam-pre-orders-will-be-honored/

Publisher Deep Silver has announced Metro Exodus will be an Epic Games Store exclusive release for PC.

The game was previously expected to launch for Steam, where it has long-since had a Steam store page available (and is still available now). Deep Silver confirmed any pre-orders made on Steam will be honored when the game launches next month, however, the game will be unavailable for purchase on the platform after today.

The decision to release the game on Epic?s store over Valve is entirely because of the more competitive revenue split Epic is offering. The game?s price on Steam has been lowered to $50 to account for the 88/12 revenue split.

?We are delighted to partner with Epic to bring the digital PC version of Metro Exodus to market,? Deep Silver CEO Klemens Kundratitz said. ?Epic?s generous revenue terms are a game changer that will allow publishers to invest more into content creation, or pass on savings to the players. By teaming up with Epic we will be able to invest more into the future of Metro and our ongoing partnership with series developer 4A Games, to the benefit of our Metro fans.?

Metro Exodus is the latest in a stream of PC game releases that are jumping ship to the Epic Games Store, including The Division 2, Genesis Alpha One, and more.

In case you missed it, you can find our thorough hands-on preview for the game here.

Metro Exodus will be launching February 15th for Windows PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

I will admit a bias on my part in that I have not played any of the previous Metro games despite them being in my Steam Library. However, with the change to a platform which does not publish User reviews as well as the addition of Denuvo, some fans are already saying that these practices are anti-consumer.

 

[CritialGaming]

Anti...consumer? How is this anything new?

Denuvo has been a thing for a long time. Nobody likes when games use it and yet they keep doing it so, either wait for it to be cracked or deal with it.

User reviews? I don't understand why people care about this so much. There are countless reviews that will be on Youtube and metacritic and all over the fucking place. The Epic game store is Anti-consumer because they don't let any random butthole with a keyboard write shit on their storefront? Then so is ever super market on the planet, go find me the user reviews at a Wallmart about a can of Pringles.

People shouldn't have to rely on their peers to tell you if something in a store is good. Because a good store CONTROLS what it fucking sells and will not sell you outright toys filled with stale cum. From what I've seen so far, Epic is controlling their store and not letting anyone and their mums put whatever shit game up there they want.

Hell they are at least honoring the pre-orders on Steam. If they wanted to be anti-consumer they could have just fucked right off and refunded people. Actually if they were REALLY smart, they'd just e-mail the pre-ordered accounts a code to get the game on the Epic store and not even put it on Steam in a limited capacity.

This isn't anti-consumer. It might be Anti-LAZY consumer, but it is still far better than what Steam has become.

 

[Worgen]

Maybe I'll pick it up in a year, probably not though, at least till its on deep sale. I'm not fucking with the epic store thing. I don't even get ubisoft games cause I don't like uplay, literally the only other distribution service I will put up with besides steam is GOG and that is more of a, I support what gog does with older games and drm then actually use it, I almost never start it up, I just allow it on my machine.

 

[Elfgore]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

 

[Worgen]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

Because we are entering an era where shit will be spread out across a ton of different services. Where you used to be able to get most of your entertainment from one place, now you have to go to a bunch of different ones, the only benefit of a digital game store is the price of entry for the consumer is free, unlike streaming services, of which we will soon have a decent number more of. Its really fucken annoying.

 

[Mcgeezaks]

Yikes, that's a no from me dawg. EPIC launcher is the worst launcher out right now, maybe after the Bethesda launcher.

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

People like to have one place for their games, achievements, screenshots, friends etc etc. Other launchers like Uplay and Origin still lacks features that steam had 10 years ago.

 

[Samos205]

yeah, i'll pass. Guess i'll just it get on console now

 

[Dalisclock]

User reviews? I don't understand why people care about this so much. There are countless reviews that will be on Youtube and metacritic and all over the fucking place. The Epic game store is Anti-consumer because they don't let any random butthole with a keyboard write shit on their storefront? Then so is ever super market on the planet, go find me the user reviews at a Wallmart about a can of Pringles.

People shouldn't have to rely on their peers to tell you if something in a store is good. Because a good store CONTROLS what it fucking sells and will not sell you outright toys filled with stale cum. From what I've seen so far, Epic is controlling their store and not letting anyone and their mums put whatever shit game up there they want.

There's also a notable problem with the Steam Reviews on their storefront. They only let you review if you own the game on steam. God forbid you own the game from GOG or GMG or on disc or any other source, or hell, you played it years ago and don't have it anymore, but if you don't have it registered on steam, screw you, your views on it don't count.

Regarding the topic, I'm curious how B-Cell is going to react to this news since he's apparently obsessed with Metro Exodus(or at least he just loves to bring it up all the time).

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

I never used epic launcher before so i have to make id there.

lot of games are skipping steam nowadays. it maybe a sign that valve will go back to make games.

 

[Saelune]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

By putting it up for pre-order on Steam, they were making a promise to sell it on Steam, and they broke that promise.

If they never put it up for sale on Steam and said they would put on Steam and just said from the start it would be an Epic exclusive, fine, but that is not what happened.

As for Origins, fuck EA, and fuck having Mass Effect 1 and 2, Dead Space 1 and 2, and Dragon Age Origins all on Steam, but not the rest of the series.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

'Exodus' is a rather fitting title for what steam is going through these days. A gift of coincidence for headline writers.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

lot of games are skipping steam nowadays. it maybe a sign that valve will go back to make games.

Doubt it. Steam makes Valve a looooooooot of money. Supposedly 4.3 billion USD in 2017 [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017]. Any game they make would need to be a megasuccess to even come close to that Steam money. They'd essentially have to create the next Fortnite, except even bigger. But that's risky, and requires effort, and Valve doesn't seem to like effort.

If this publishers bailing for Epic thing becomes a trend, rather than them refocing on making games, it's far more likely Valve will try making Steam a more attractive platform to publish on instead. Less risk, less effort and probably still more profitable.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

lot of games are skipping steam nowadays. it maybe a sign that valve will go back to make games.

Doubt it. Steam makes Valve a looooooooot of money. Supposedly 4.3 billion USD in 2017 [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017]. Any game they make would need to be a megasuccess to even come close to that Steam money. They'd essentially have to create the next Fortnite, except even bigger. But that's risky, and requires effort, and Valve doesn't seem to like effort.

If this publishers bailing for Epic thing becomes a trend, rather than them refocing on making games, it's far more likely Valve will try making Steam a more attractive platform to publish on instead. Less risk, less effort and probably still more profitable.

none of bethesda game from now will be on steam, not Doom Eternal, not Rage 2 and certainly not their games like starfield and elderscrolls.

activision now put their games on blizzard.net. and COD along with other games will be exclusive on that.

more and more competition will be good thing. i think epic launcher is new. it just launched last month and publisher are going there. first division 2 now this althought just for one year.

 

[Samos205]

lot of games are skipping steam nowadays. it maybe a sign that valve will go back to make games.

Doubt it. Steam makes Valve a looooooooot of money. Supposedly 4.3 billion USD in 2017 [https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017]. Any game they make would need to be a megasuccess to even come close to that Steam money. They'd essentially have to create the next Fortnite, except even bigger. But that's risky, and requires effort, and Valve doesn't seem to like effort.

If this publishers bailing for Epic thing becomes a trend, rather than them refocing on making games, it's far more likely Valve will try making Steam a more attractive platform to publish on instead. Less risk, less effort and probably still more profitable.

none of bethesda game from now will be on steam, not Doom Eternal, not Rage 2 and certainly not their games like starfield and elderscrolls.

activision now put their games on blizzard.net. and COD along with other games will be exclusive on that.

more and more competition will be good thing. i think epic launcher is new. it just launched last month and publisher are going there. first division 2 now this althought just for one year.

But this isn't competititon. It'd be competition if they had it on both store fronts and you could choose which service you'd prefer but they've removed that choice, so who are they competing against?

Here's an actual example of competition. Hotline miami is available on steam, humble bundle and GoG. Thats three different stores with three different prices (roughyly $1-2 difference between them) Each store is competing for your business.
You want another example of competition? How about Ulitmate Doom, available on the same three stores as above AND the bethesda launcher. Those are examples of competition, each is competing with the other for your business.

Making something exclusive to one store and not available on others isn't competition, since you have no-choice but to use their service, and people don't seem to understand that that is not competition. Its no different to games being console exclusive.

 

[CritialGaming]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

By putting it up for pre-order on Steam, they were making a promise to sell it on Steam, and they broke that promise.

If they never put it up for sale on Steam and said they would put on Steam and just said from the start it would be an Epic exclusive, fine, but that is not what happened.

As for Origins, fuck EA, and fuck having Mass Effect 1 and 2, Dead Space 1 and 2, and Dragon Age Origins all on Steam, but not the rest of the series.

But they are honoring the pre-orders on Steam. They have the right to pull their product from a store shelf if they do not want to sell it in that store. Also it's only a timed exclusive to Epic, it will return to Steam eventually so technically they aren't breaking any non-existent promise.

 

[Samos205]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

By putting it up for pre-order on Steam, they were making a promise to sell it on Steam, and they broke that promise.

If they never put it up for sale on Steam and said they would put on Steam and just said from the start it would be an Epic exclusive, fine, but that is not what happened.

As for Origins, fuck EA, and fuck having Mass Effect 1 and 2, Dead Space 1 and 2, and Dragon Age Origins all on Steam, but not the rest of the series.

But they are honoring the pre-orders on Steam. They have the right to pull their product from a store shelf if they do not want to sell it in that store. Also it's only a timed exclusive to Epic, it will return to Steam eventually so technically they aren't breaking any non-existent promise.

Its if its going to return to steam in a year, then why even remove it in the first place?

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Its if its going to return to steam in a year, then why even remove it in the first place?

Because Epic waved a big wad of cash in Deep Silver's face.

 

[CritialGaming]

Its if its going to return to steam in a year, then why even remove it in the first place?

Uhhh...money?

I thought that was obvious.

 

[Burnouts3s3]

This is THQNordic's Statement of the situation.

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And Valve's statement of the situation.

Sales of Metro Exodus have been discontinued on Steam due to a publisher decision to make the game exclusive to another PC store.

The developer and publisher have assured us that all prior sales of the game on Steam will be fulfilled on Steam, and Steam owners will be able to access the game and any future updates or DLC through Steam.

We think the decision to remove the game is unfair to Steam customers, especially after a long pre-sale period. We apologize to Steam customers that were expecting it to be available for sale through the February 15th release date, but we were only recently informed of the decision and given limited time to let everyone know.

 

[Elfgore]

I honest to gods don't understand why people are freaking out about this so much. The exact same thing happened when Origins was announced. Like jackshit has changed besides I now have to log into Origins to play The Sims or Battlefront. Fucking GASP!!!!

Because we are entering an era where shit will be spread out across a ton of different services. Where you used to be able to get most of your entertainment from one place, now you have to go to a bunch of different ones, the only benefit of a digital game store is the price of entry for the consumer is free, unlike streaming services, of which we will soon have a decent number more of. Its really fucken annoying.

Opening up a program, one you probably already have your login info saved on, is that annoying? Seriously? It takes like thirty seconds to open up Origin or Steam. Yeah, I'm gonna take the extra competition over that trifling issue.