TaintedSquirrel
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Apparently with their new regional pricing, the game is $20 in Africa on the epic store. I might try using a VPN.
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Yeah, I'll be doing this despite epic.
Metro series is interesting. It rewards exploration.
Just some annoyances in a somewhat hidden endgame mechanic where if you are too evil (killing humans) it locks you out of "good" endings.
Also other types of moral "choices" which you may not realize are happening.
Welp, grey market keys may be another issue that gets fixed with the change, but nobody really knows at this point.
I know some of the distributors are now being issued Epic keys. No idea which ones though. Sounds like the Steam keys may dry up. I assume it will be like an Ubisoft game. If you bought it directly on Steam you get a Steam key. Anywhere else and it is Uplay/Epic.
4A Games developer: If Metro Exodus does not sell on the PC, the next Metro will not come out for it
the developer went one step further and stated that if all PC gamers boycott Metro Exodus then the next Metro game (if there is one mind you) will not come out on the PC...now I’m pretty sure that the developer was exaggerating here but it begs the question; how many PC sales can guarantee the continuation of the Metro franchise on the PC?...
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/4a-g...next-metro-will-not-come-out-for-it/#comments
The game is going to sell well, regardless of steam.
epic may not be "consumer friendly" but all the same, selling a game for $10 less than steam, and allowing the developers to make more money, sounds like a win-win to me.
A win-win would have been leaving the game for sale on Steam for $60 and making it $50 on Epic. That's "increasing competition". That's giving consumers a choice. Instead they took a bribe to stop selling it on Steam two weeks before launch: everybody loses and they get their game boycotted.
The bright side is this trainwreck will serve as a cautionary tale for any other publisher offered a deal with the devil when Tim Sweeney comes offering a bag of Fortnite cash to remove more games from Steam.
so if Epic had announced this as a store exclusive right from the beginning it would have made a difference?...no chance...PC gamers are especially whiny and love to complain about every tiny thing...
Having my account information hacked or stolen isn't a tiny thing. Sure there is a risk with Steam and others, but we try to mitigate it as much as we can, using the Epic store is NOT a way to go about doing that.
Steam had user information stolen in the past...using that as an excuse for not using Epic is not valid
I'm still hunting for the source, but 4A officially apologized today and did not back up the threats made. I will update when I have a link.
EDIT: Okay the reply comes from a Russian forum (same place the rogue Dev made his threats), so rather than deal with a Russian link & needed translator, just check this out:
I'm still hunting for the source, but 4A officially apologized today and did not back up the threats made. I will update when I have a link.
EDIT: Okay the reply comes from a Russian forum (same place the rogue Dev made his threats), so rather than deal with a Russian link & needed translator, just check this out:
eh, internet outrage culture bullshit. bunch of youtubers fanning the flames for views. any time this happens it is always the same people doing the same shit, until others have to join in for the views and it becomes a regular brigade. Deep Silver is the owner, not the developer, yet the developer is getting the shit. Some one, not a company spokesman, spoke out and now 4A is in the shit too.
Don't bring up Jessica Price. She was fired for her actions, and as an individual was pretty upset about it. Yet the outrage culture kept repeatedly attacking her based on her comments. So screw these youtubers that use fake outrage to get views.
Very mature
There was no reason for it not to be on both Epic, Steam and other stores like GOG, key websites, etc. Making it exclusive guarantees it will be heavily pirated and may have ruined their reputation as a game developer.so if Epic had announced this as a store exclusive right from the beginning it would have made a difference?...no chance...PC gamers are especially whiny and love to complain about every tiny thing...the fact that it's not on Steam at launch is the reason why people are crying...they are just using the anti-competitive etc reasons as an excuse to fake boycott the game
I think a chinese company owns a chunk of epic, also a chunk of ubi, so...Yeah I don't expect to see Metro Exodus back on steam any time soon. I wonder what happened to the Division lol
I am sure there were plenty of reason$$$ for them to put it exclusively on epic. money talks. steam had a good run, but realistically, what other business gets a 30-40% cut of the profit just for hosting electrons?
yeah, you can talk about how feature rich and so forth it is, but does that add enough value to justify the % they take? Steam community is fine, but usually I go to reddit. So it really isn't much of a loss.
According to another [H] that isn't the case
"Metro Exodus on Steam: $60
Metro Exodus on Epic: $50
Steam is 30% only for the first $10 million of sales, which is like a drop in the lake of the total sales for a game like Metro Exodus. After $10 million in sales, Steam then charges 25%. Then, at $50 million in sales, Steam charges 20%.
By the time 4A and Deep Silver sell 1 million copies of Metro Exodus on Steam, they will have made $1 million more than they would from selling 1 million copies through the Epic store:
1 million $50 copies sold through Epic = $50,000,000 total = $44,000,000 to 4A and Deep Silver
1 million $60 copies sold through Steam = $60,000,000 total = 7,000,000 (30%) + 30,000,000 (25%) + 8,000,000 (20%) = $45,000,000 to 4A and Deep Silver
4 million Epic sales of a $50 game = $200,000,000 total revenue, with $44 per copy going to the publisher = $176,000,000 going to 4A and Deep Silver
4 million Steam sales of a $60 game = $240,000,000 total revenue, with:
$10 million with a fee of 30% = $42 per copy going to the publisher = $7,000,000 going to 4A and Deep Silver
$40 million with a fee of 25% = $45 per copy going to the publisher = $30,000,000 going to 4A and Deep Silver
$190 million with a fee of 20% = $48 per copy going to the publisher = $152,000,000 going to 4A and Deep Silver
For a total of $189,000,000 going to 4A and Deep Silver
$176 million (from Epic) < $189 million (from Steam)
4A and Deep Silver will actually make more money selling ME on Steam than they will on Epic. Full break-down here: https://hardforum.com/threads/metro-exodus-is-an-epic-store-exclusive.1976314/page-6#post-1044061477
Metro Exodus is an exclusive on Epic not because that's where it will make more money from sales, but because Epic are paying Deep Silver a lump sum to make ME exclusive to Epic for a year in a bid to boost Epic's customer base".
I believe Epic cut a deal with Deep Silver for notoriety.
There was no reason for it not to be on both Epic, Steam and other stores like GOG, key websites, etc. Making it exclusive guarantees it will be heavily pirated and may have ruined their reputation as a game developer.
True. They will pirate the game, but I wonder if they're still going to threaten to not release the game on PC due to the major backlash.c'mon now...pirates are pirates...that's what they do...they're just going to use this as an excuse to pirate the game when that's what they were going to do all along...
I read the website, it does not have SLI on the spec. I hope it does have it.