Metro Exodus being delisted from steam, moving to Epic store.

Epic creates decent games and want to do their own thing with a independent distribution platform.

VALVe has had long enough a monopoly, i'm almost sure that the amount of competition Epic can create in such a short amount of time won't reach anywhere as near as VALVe's and it will take a good amount of time until there is a proper userbase and trust that's been built up.

I don't like platform exclusives, they don't make me magically switch but what can you do at the end, i never ever bought a game from EA's Origin, Blizzard's Battle.net or Ubisoft's Uplay and lately Microsoft's Windows 10 (store), that's simply not how i roll and that will never change, even if it means that i'll miss out on games in the long run.

I can wait for Metro Exodus coming back to Steam, maybe with a nice discount or even in a Redux Edition already.

I don't mind games being platform exclusives. I do mind them being STORE exclusives.

guess they did an... exodus from steam

I see what epic is trying to do, and why it is doing it in such a manner. But It just doesn't make me want to use epic store any more, in fact it drives me further away from buying anything on said store.

Exodus is a game I was, and am quite excited for, but now with this whole ordeal, it makes it slightly tricky. I kind of want my steam overlay, and achievments that are on steam, all tied to one place, but by making the game 'epic exclusive' even though for only a year, that means the release date is practically set 1 year later, (not counting the pre-order).

There is another game which I feel has done it right though, being released tomorrow; Subnautica BZ. I feel like that is what all games should do, allowing people to choose what platform to purchase the game from. Unknown Worlds is releasing Subnautica Below Zero on steam, epic, and even discord, all for the same exact price: 19.99USD, this is what I would have loved to see, as then I'm not 'pressured' into switching to the epic games store.

I understand without this 'pressure' more people would just look away from epic and not bother switching, 'why switch if the game is avaliable everywhere else?'. But the way epic should have done it is just by offering more games for free, or have fantastic sales on games, for a cheaper price, to pull the customer into their store, not pressure them to buy something from their store.

That's just my couple of cents to the matter. I may preorder metro on steam just so I have it there all in the same place as 2033 and last light.

so, deep silver takes the game to a store without reviews....

speculation:

1. game isnt finished, full with bugs so they want to release it on a platform without reviews and they can finish the game in the extra one year before it hit the platform with review
2. they close the sales 15-16 days before players could play the game, refund period 14 days while with this announcement they still did a lot of sales on steam

time will tell if it was just a speculation or just the way what unfinished and hyped products will follow.

Any game is cheap and easy to purchase if you simply wait long enough. )

Thanks for Skyrim!

SO RICH
SO NO COMPETITION

heh, i can wait though. not like my pc can handle it right now
still, i doubt it's because of their "low" fees for developer, more like their "strategy" of the so called, "exclusive"

Meh, didn't plan on playing it anytime soon anyways.

Everywhere I look 99% of people either claim they will not buy games from the Epic Store and pirate them or wait for them to be on Steam.It would be interesting to see if those games tank hard and are forced to release their future titles on Steam.

I wonder if anyone has a legit reason for supporting the Epic Store.Literally 0 functions,scummy practices already like forcing exclusives and no progress whatsoever.This kind of ''competition'' will not go anywhere.How do you guys expect Steam to ''up their game''?By providing 1 free game every two weeks?The only thing they can do is lower the percentage cut,and even if they do that,the prices will stay the same and only the devs will win not us the users,just like in the case of Epic.We are not getting anything out of it.Steam can justify that cut by having tons of features and being a reliable partner for years.Epic are just looking to bribe their way into the market.And with statements like : ''we won't introduce user reviews''..how can we trust them to update their ''store''?

It will go downhill from here if people buy into this.GoG,Discord Store,Humble don't bother me because I can choose between them and Steam.And they have good relations with Steam and even communicate.Epic is just a bully at this point.

People that support Epic are maybe even worse than people who pre-order unfinished games,buy 5 dollar dots on screens,pay for microtransactions in horrible games thus encouraging dev laziness and so on.Activision and EA are proving that gamers as a whole are stupid enough to buy the same thing over and over.Why wouldn't Epic think they can trick PC gamers by offering a literal shell of a store when compared to Steam?

There is absolutely no reason to support those practices,just go pirate the games or wait for their Steam release.

Wishlisted and waited game, so sorry it had to go. Not sorry enough to throw money at Epic Games tho. :P Will just purchase if it really comes back to steam in 2020.

There'd need to be an Epic Games store exclusive game that I'd be interested in for me to consider using their client. Until that happens one game client is enough for me. When I can get 99.9% of all PC games on one client what's the need for the handful of other clients?

I take that back, I forgot World War Z was exclusive to the Epic Games store. Can't pass up on a zombie co-op game.

competition? a launcher that barely have a friend list and a chat....

I can wait ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Well, i dont mind to wait another year.

this is good for competition and customers... diversity!
One client more or less on the hard drive who cares... i only would miss the whole Steam services, like Community Hub, Achievements, Overlay etc.

Too bad.
I'm not a huge fan of the Metro franchise so I dont really miss this one. Can miss The Division 2 as well.

Origin has Battlefield, uPlay has Assassins Creed, Epic has nothing interesting yet. For me at least.
Atm the only game that will definately pull me to Epic could be Cyberpunk 2077. I'm pretty sure they reached out to CD Projekt.
Hopefully they stick to GOG and Steam. We'll see.

A lot of the comments about this indicate that people will not buy the game, but rather get a pirate version. This 'bribing' by Epic can lead to everybody losing. The exclusivity deals on PC only leads to people going back/discovering piracy as an option. We'll have to wait and see how this turns out, but I can't see that this is anything to be happy about...

by the way for EU people it might be more expensive than on steam because on epic store there is a "payment processor fee"

found this picture on reddit, don't know if its true

View attached image.

hmm why not put games on both stores and let the customer decide where to buy ?! no way after a year steam users pay $60 for it, everyone will expect it with %50 discount at least by then.

Very ugly move from publisher to start selling at steam - they had to generate keys from steam for preorders and now just making decision to screw steam. I like competition but not with such dirty moves.

Deep Silver Exodus

I think this will be bigga fail. Pll don't want to use Epic Launcher only cause of Metro:Exodus. Sales will be lower, the biggest mistake from that company.

I'm not gonna buy it until it will be available on Steam :)

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