Epic steals Metro Exodus from Steam

gamers will decide. :) its depend on mass behaviors of gamers who purchase in on one game. so developer should know sell unit on steam and just figure estimate sell copy on first year x market share = max revenue so they go that way.

I'm happy about this. Not because I use the Epic store or am interested in the game but because it might make Valve think again about the ecosystem they have created. There's so much uncurated cheap crap in the store now that I can understand a company for refusing to be a part of it of the competition provides a decent alternative.

I don't support thieves

I'm sticking with steam like i've always done.

How dare Epic sneak into Valve's offices, download the Metro Exodus code, erase all the backups, then sneak out again and upload the code to their own servers!

"steals"

They will regret it.. just like Thronebreaker did bad while on GoG only

Metro is big enough to have some popularity on Epic Store too. But basically this means they will earn something more from 88-12% epic store split and something less from occasional buyer who would buy it only on steam. And there's a big possibility the latter is more than the first one. And if Metro Exodus will fail so will do Epic Store...

My guess is that epic paid to Deep Silver more than they can earn from steam sales (or at least a good portion)

I like Epic. I like the underdogs.
The launcher will get better. It's actually good enough, for those that doesn't hunt trophies and achievements. Trophies and achievements is so 2009.

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 :)

Smart people won't support Epic Games, cause they are against gamers and all good rules. They bribed Metro's pubs two weeks before the premiere. It's unforgivable. And they want to monopolize the market for themselves. The pre-sales was launched long before that happens and they suddenly made such a move?

And what You wrote is not true. Nobody made such a thing before. Nobody aprted ways from Steam. Just because EA made a game that is their creation and made it exclusive for Origin or Ubisoft did the same with Uplay doesn't mean they did the same. They never monopolyzed the market. And they have right to make their own games on their own platforms. Even though I hate exclusives, Iwill protect EA and Ubi (etc) for their exclusives cause they are justified. Epic Games doesn't own Metro and they just bribed the publisher. This is not okay.

Also making games for new platform is bad. I don't need yet another poorly made platform that wants to compete with Steam client and fails. This should be prohibited. I am FOR every game being on every platform. No exclusives. 100% competition.

I can wait, when it comes 2020 on Steam. :)
Because I must complete the other Metro games first.^^

It's good for Steam to have a competitor. Epic has the potential to overtake Steam. I'll address all the "bare-bones" and "leaching" arguments by stating simply that they are a new competitor and will take time to ramp up.

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Active competition will wake up the old dinosaur steam, that has become fat and lazy over the last years. Time to train some new muscles to take on the competitor. So don't hate the competition. An almost monopoly is bad for us gamers

Im amazed how Deep Silver, after all the crap they have pulled, isnt even a recognizable name for gamers to direct criticism towards the real culprit

copied from twitter.

Plus, they forgot about LINUX support, Trading Cards and CD-key redemption.

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I think it will be hard to compete with Steam. But competition is always good and may lead to that Lord Gaben lower his share of the profit from games selling. I guess thats the main reason that some companies move to other platforms.