ToddMcF2002
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Steam, GOG or no sale. Bad enough I have that Origin virus installed. no way I’m doing another publisher specific client.
I don't think this really affects anyone who wasn't going to pick up the game. If someone had no plans to purchase Metro: Exodus, and this upsets them, I think they were just looking for reasons to be upset.
I'm not entirely sure of you're saying - or rather what it encompasses - but I had definitely planned on picking up Metro Exodus. And now I no longer do. Was I incredibly excited for it? No. Barring very, very few titles, I don't get excited about any game release these days. That's not so much a reflection of contemporary game quality (or lack thereof) so much as it is my growing [gaming] disinterest that gradually comes with age as well as an immense backlog of games and having long-since come to terms with the fact I'm throwing money away 80% of the time when I impulse purchase something and don't play it for years (if I ever do).
It is why I only use Steam and if I want a game from GoG I get it directly from their website.I just dislike having to have two bits of software for a game more and more. You buy the game then need to use a special platform to play it - Bethnet, Epic, Gog, Steam, EA, etc. Suppose a sign of the times. Just like a clean PC and it feels cluttered with all these various game agents … probably all collecting information while being used.
Whats funny here is they own Koch Media.In a series of tweets, THQ Nordic stated its official stance regarding the timed-exclusive release of Metro Exodus on Epic’s digital store. According to THQ Nordic, the decision to release the game initially only on Epic’s store was made entirely by Koch Media who is responsible for Deep Silver’s games.
I agree with the guys tweet.
Simply because he bought a physical box which some still do expecting a Steam key in the box. Now he's told it will be an epic key instead two week before release.
The old bait ans switch tactic. Anyone defending this action is ludicrous.
JDR13, there wont be steam keys, stop disinforming people, every retail key will activate on epicshitstore.
Anyway seems 2033/2034 got tons of negative reviews on steam since this shit move haha.
I had definitely planned on picking up Metro Exodus. And now I no longer do. Was I incredibly excited for it? No. Barring very, very few titles, I don't get excited about any game release these days.
Moreso, I look to game purchases as what I want to play eventually rather than in the immediate future.
JDR13, there wont be steam keys, stop disinforming people, every retail key will activate on epicshitstore.
“Any customer with an outstanding pre-order for Metro Exodus on PC through any digital retailer will receive their game as expected on their store of choice.”
Anyway seems 2033/2034 got tons of negative reviews on steam since this shit move haha.
This speaks to the need for an industry standard for serving game clients. We should be able to buy a game from a vendor, but not be locked into their closed platform. A common client interface should work with any vendor who adopts the open source standard.
See, here’s the weird thing: Steam, as damaging and dangerous a monopoly as it might have over PC gaming, got to this position a few years back without acquiring competitors, and without demanding developers and publishers bind themselves to inescapable contracts. It just sort of bumbled and stumbled its way there. And Valve, while deserving of so much criticism, significantly have never – so far as we know – asked that a game be exclusively released on their platform.
Annoying people, hogging games to yourself to try to force your store onto players, making PC gaming more inconvenient rather than less: none of this is going to help Epic, nor make the Epic Store competitive with Steam. Being better than Steam would. And it would be far better for them to spend the presumably astonishing amounts of money they’re using to secure exclusives on creating a Steam-beating piece of software.
Basically this is what happened:THQ Nordic GmbH is the owner of Deep Silver and its parent company Koch Media, the latter of which still holds the rights to the Metro franchise, and yesterday suggested it wasn't enamored with the company's decision to pull Metro Exodus from Steam in favor of the Epic Store.
"We do not want to categorically exclude the possibility of timed exclusives for any of our games in the future," wrote THQ Nordic GmbH on Twitter, "but speaking in the here and now, we definitely want to have the players choose the platform of their liking and make our portfolio available to as many outlets as possible."
Now, THQ Nordic GmbH's own parent company, THQ Nordic AB, has distanced itself from those comments, and said it fully supports Koch Media's decision as well as the autonomy of its various subsidiaries.
"I believe it’s in the group’s, and ultimately the consumers’, best interest that business decisions are made close to the market and this is the group’s consistent business model," said THQ Nordic AB chief exec Lars Wingefors.
"I firmly believe that Deep Silver and Koch Media have carefully considered the advantages and disadvantages, opportunities and risks in their decision to go solely with Epic Games Store. The decision has my full support."