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Metro Exodus for PC a timed exclusive for the Epic store (Steam preorders honoured, physical copy with Epic key). [READ staff post]
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Not to defend this but that pratice has been happening for forever on game consoles and happens on Mobile too, is anyone really surprised it's now happening on the PC? Steam makes a ton of money, no wonder others want a piece of the action and exclusive deals are part of getting consumers to your store.
Or they may start buying exclusives, they have the money purse for it.
You had a better discount on 3rd party stores.
And it seems that only US costumers are getting a discount. Prices for € and £ are the same as on Steam.
Complain to Steam. If they didn't take such a big cut this wouldn't happen.
Missing out on all of those steam features... Damn.
I'm not buying the game this year, but I will after my self imposed purchasing freeze. I'd rather buy it on steam, 100 percent.
Hopefully epic catches up feature wise.
I'm not buying the game this year, but I will after my self imposed purchasing freeze. I'd rather buy it on steam, 100 percent.
Hopefully epic catches up feature wise.
You realize steam has a bunch of features people like, right? FPS counter, big picture mode, steam link. I'm pretty sure Epic doesn't have an app on my tv that I can use to stream games from my pc to tv?
MYbe I don't want yet another store with my personal and credit card info on it ?
Maybe I don't use my gaming pc at a desk with a mouse and keyboard and only use steams big picture to navigate purchase and play my games?
Fragmentation of pc gaming is gut wrenching for me.
Gabe is a diehard free market libertarian, he should be giddy with glee about these moves.
Plenty wrong with moneyhats, dumb anti-competition move. I'll only get this game in a Humble Bundle in 2021.
If you don't get it at this point, then you are willfully ignoring all the points people bring up with this comes up every week.
Steam looks like losing blood, I hope Valve can reduce their share to %20 to make them stay on the platform. In long term I don't think anything will happen to Steam but things aren't looking pretty.
A better alternative = paying for exclusives. That's what you guys seem to want Valve to do. A reduced cut isn't enough.
Nobody on this forum bats an eye if you only game on Nintendo or Xbox. Say that you prefer Steam and all of the sudden you are a lazy entitled asshole that hates devs.
I like to get the most for my money so I mostly shop on Steam. Won't be buying this game. Somehow it's ok for devs to want more for their money but not consumers.
I like to get the most for my money so I mostly shop on Steam. Won't be buying this game. Somehow it's ok for devs to want more for their money but not consumers.
It has been cheaper on Steam key stores, now you're paying more for the privilege of having "competition".
Not supporting the Epic Store, but Steam really needs to cut down their earning percentage or developers will abandon it.
lol, skipping Metro Exodus then. It's not like there's a shortage of games to play anyway.
I would have bought a Steam key, but now I can't be arsed to pick it up.
I would have bought a Steam key, but now I can't be arsed to pick it up.
That explains the removal of the regional price on my country (from 500 MXN to 1200, fuck that lmao)
Yeah, I'll buy it on a deep discount then.
Yeah, I'll buy it on a deep discount then.
It's a difficult decision. Your way is probably the high road here. But this was a dumb fucking decision by the PUBLISHER. I wanted to play this game and support the devs that worked hard to make it.
It just sucks having to make this decision at all.
no, because gog doesn't pay devs to keep their games from other stores on the market, so you can only buy the game on gog.
Because businesses never make mistakes and never go out of business as a result of those mistakes
Oh hello there Starbreeze
Can we stop with the conspiracy theory about Epics payouts? You know and everyone knows that you're talking out of your ass with no actual data or evidence. If you have proof post it. If not stop assuming there's some back room deal just because they decided on a year exclusivity.
When people said that about certain Sony things about money hats pulled out of their ass they were rightfully called out but apparently it's fair game because epic is cool to hate.
When people said that about certain Sony things about money hats pulled out of their ass they were rightfully called out but apparently it's fair game because epic is cool to hate.
Some of you really need to understand that being agaisnt Epic's bullshit moneyhatting bullshit isn't "defending Steam".
Being agaisnt the Epic store and its practices doesn't necessarily mean we dislike every single store that isn't Steam.
Steam is the best storefront, period. Universal controller support, Proton (I really want to migrate fully to Linux one day), etc, so Steam is my #1 option. But I have some games on GoG, Uplay, Origin etc. None of these pull the bullshit Epic pulls.
Bullshit. This is happening because Epic is throwing money at developers, not because they're choosing to outweigh Steam's potential audience and features for a better cut.
Bullshit, you're talking as if games don't do the majority of their sales in the first year.