Metro Exodus an Epic Store Exclusive - What This Means for Steam Preorders

An announcement from Deep Silver on Steam reveals that Metro Exodus will be a timed exclusive for the Epic Games Store until February 14, 2020, one year after the planned February 15, 2019 release of 4A Games' first-person shooter sequel. The wrinkle with this plan is that Metro Exodus remains available for pre-purchase on Steam for the moment, and has already been preordered there by a number of customers. Preorders will end at some point today, but word is everyone that they will receive their game as expected. This is not preventing Valve from complaining about this, as they say: "We think the decision to remove the game is unfair to Steam customers, especially after a long pre-sale period. We apologize to Steam customers that were expecting it to be available for sale through the February 15th release date, but we were only recently informed of the decision and given limited time to let everyone know." Here's Deep Silver's take on the topic:
Epic Games and Deep Silver today announced a partnership that will see the digitally-distributed PC version of the highly anticipated Metro Exodus release on February 15th 2019 solely through the Epic Games store.

The ability to purchase / pre-order from Steam will soon be removed

However, any customer with an outstanding pre-order for Metro Exodus on PC through Steam will receive their game as expected.

For more information, please view our FAQ below :

I already pre-ordered Metro Exodus on Steam. What happens to my order?
Your pre-order on Steam will be honored, and you will be able to download and play Metro Exodus on release day (15th February 2019).

If I pre-ordered the Gold Edition on Steam, will I still get my future Expansion Pass on Steam?
Yes, your Expansion Pack content will become available for download via Steam, when released.

Will I still get my pre-order bonuses - the Digital Artbook and Official Soundtrack on Steam?
Yes, your pre-order bonuses will be honored and delivered by Steam.

I ordered the Standard Edition - will I be able to purchase the Expansion Pass in the future on Steam?
Yes, if you own the Standard Edition on Steam, you will be able to purchase the Expansion Pass or standalone DLC on Steam when it releases in the future.

Does the Epic Store have any exclusive or timed exclusive DLC?
No. All future DLC for Metro Exodus will be released simultaneously on all platforms.

Are there any differences in content between the version on the Epic Games store and the version on Steam?
No, they have the same pre-order bonuses and in-game content. All future title updates, patches, and free and premium DLC will be released simultaneously across both versions.

Will Metro Exodus ever return to Steam?
Yes - Metro Exodus will return to Steam and on other store fronts after 14th February 2020.
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Jan 29, 2019, 10:17
Vio
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Re: Metro Exodus an Epic Store Exclusive - What This Means for Steam Preorders Jan 29, 2019, 10:17
Jan 29, 2019, 10:17
Vio
 
Beamer wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 10:10:
It took a Steam a long time to get to that point. Returns are still pretty recent. Epic hasn't even existed long enough to do sales yet, and again, Steam didn't launch with Steam sales. And non-censorship? Steam only recently started allowing anime nudity, which I assume you're discussing, as nothing else has ever been censored on any of these retailers - video game censorship is generally a huge ball of nothing that people freak out without there being any true evidence of anyone taking your pixel boobs away.

Epic literally just launched. It's of course behind something that's about 15 years old. Steam wasn't built in a day. If revenue is flowing in, Epic will be able to build these things, much like Steam was able to.

Nah I mean games like hatred etc. that people were making such a fuss about.

Yea Epic has just started and I'm sure they will improve with time, but take a look at Origin and Ubi, those platforms have been around for quite a while now already and they don't even blip on the radar.

I'm thinking Epic is walking the same road as Ubi / Origin rather than a new GOG.
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Vio wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 10:05:
I personally like steam because of their refund policy, sales, and commitment to non-censorship.

So far the epic launcher has only provided me - lack of pause/resume on install downloads. And keeping my pc from sleeping the monitor.

I don't know at this point epic looks like they just throwing money around screaming 'look at me senpai!' to try get a presence in the market, I don't think they are really serious about competing, they just want a slice of the pie.

It took a Steam a long time to get to that point. Returns are still pretty recent. Epic hasn't even existed long enough to do sales yet, and again, Steam didn't launch with Steam sales. And non-censorship? Steam only recently started allowing anime nudity, which I assume you're discussing, as nothing else has ever been censored on any of these retailers - video game censorship is generally a huge ball of nothing that people freak out without there being any true evidence of anyone taking your pixel boobs away.

Epic literally just launched. It's of course behind something that's about 15 years old. Steam wasn't built in a day. If revenue is flowing in, Epic will be able to build these things, much like Steam was able to.
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Jan 29, 2019, 10:05
Vio
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Jan 29, 2019, 10:05
Vio
 
I personally like steam because of their refund policy, sales, and commitment to non-censorship.

So far the epic launcher has only provided me - lack of pause/resume on install downloads. And keeping my pc from sleeping the monitor.

I don't know at this point epic looks like they just throwing money around screaming 'look at me senpai!' to try get a presence in the market, I don't think they are really serious about competing, they just want a slice of the pie.
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Jan 29, 2019, 09:39
Prez
 
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Jan 29, 2019, 09:39
 Prez
 
Kain wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 09:31:
Wesp5 wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 08:50:
Prez wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 08:38:
The choice of which platform to purchase on was never removed, making it far less anti-consumer in my view.

Hello? Since Steam became the quasi monopoly for PC games even if you bought a game retail in the store you needed Steam to get it to run! Where is the choice in that? Steam basically killed off retail games that you actually owned until GOG turned up. It's only fair and square to get some competition to this bloated store with no support at all!

That market was dying anyway. Some people seem to forget that publishers were largely abandoning the PC industry due to overblown fears about piracy and lack of sales. Steam changed all of that, literally reforging and solidifying the market. Valve earned its quasi-monopoly, it built out the entire digital distribution industry that even console manufacturers have since aped. That doesn't mean they deserve future success of course.

Personally I just use Steam out of convenience and because that's where most of my friends are. I'm not opposed to using other store fronts but it is getting a little bit too much like TV channels for my taste. 10+ different logins, passwords, 2FA and etc to manage just to play games is getting a bit annoying. Convenience is king for me and Steam is just super convenient. Competition is always good but Epic is literally just buying exclusives with guaranteed revenue contracts, that's not exactly true competition IMO. They know one day the Fortnite gravy train will end and that they need to be well poised.

Exactly. What people are failing to point out is that Steam was marketed not only as a games platform, but as an anti-piracy measure that actually worked. It worked not because it was uncrackable (it most certainly isn't) but because Valve alone understood the concept that if you added enough value and functionality to your platform, the value and convenience of buying it *gasp* negates some of the biggest reasons for pirating it. If Epic wanted to compete with Steam, that's the level on which you do it. I will give them credit for undercutting the percentage of the revenue cut that Steam takes as a very smart way of making your platform seem like a viable alternative. But that's all they have. The idea that throwing money at cash-starved publishers to buy exclusivity rights is somehow "competition" is beyond ridiculous.

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Jan 29, 2019, 09:31
 
Wesp5 wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 08:50:
Prez wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 08:38:
The choice of which platform to purchase on was never removed, making it far less anti-consumer in my view.

Hello? Since Steam became the quasi monopoly for PC games even if you bought a game retail in the store you needed Steam to get it to run! Where is the choice in that? Steam basically killed off retail games that you actually owned until GOG turned up. It's only fair and square to get some competition to this bloated store with no support at all!

That market was dying anyway. Some people seem to forget that publishers were largely abandoning the PC industry due to overblown fears about piracy and lack of sales. The writing was on the wall for PC physical. Steam changed all of that, literally reforging and solidifying the market. Valve earned its quasi-monopoly, it built out the entire digital distribution industry that even console manufacturers have since aped. That doesn't mean they deserve future success of course.

Personally I just use Steam out of convenience and because that's where most of my friends are. I'm not opposed to using other store fronts but it is getting a little bit too much like TV channels for my taste. 10+ different logins, passwords, 2FA and etc to manage just to play games is getting a bit annoying. Convenience is king for me and Steam is just super convenient.

Competition is always good but Epic is literally just buying exclusives with guaranteed revenue contracts, that's not exactly true competition IMO. They know one day the Fortnite gravy train will end and that they need to be well poised. It would be nice if Epic (or anyone else) had bothered to come up with a halfway decent client rather than just gating content. Of course Valve did that too once upon a time so /shrug
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Re: Metro Exodus an Epic Store Exclusive - What This Means for Steam Preorders
Jan 29, 2019, 09:06
Prez
 
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Jan 29, 2019, 09:06
 Prez
 
Interesting that you snipped only half if that comment without the contextual explanation for why I didn't find games requiring a Steam account to be anti-consumer. Almost as if you were trying to be intentionally misleading...

In your example you could buy the game from Gamestop, Best Buy, Walmart, Target, and many other retail stores. Furthermore, you could buy the digital verion from any number of digital storefronts, very often with deeper discounts than found on Steam. You decry that requiring a Steam account somehow limits ownership of a game, which made sense about 15 years ago but is laughable today. Have you bought a console game lately? Buy the disc, plop it in your console, and you need to log into XBOX live or PSN and download a 4+GB patch. All versions of games beyond what you can buy off of GOG are beholden to a platform. Strangely enough, even CDProjekt, the owners and creators of GOG, see the value in choice and make their games available on Steam.

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Jan 29, 2019, 08:50
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Jan 29, 2019, 08:50
 
Prez wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 08:38:
The choice of which platform to purchase on was never removed, making it far less anti-consumer in my view.

Hello? Since Steam became the quasi monopoly for PC games even if you bought a game retail in the store you needed Steam to get it to run! Where is the choice in that? Steam basically killed off retail games that you actually owned until GOG turned up. It's only fair and square to get some competition to this bloated store with no support at all!
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Jan 29, 2019, 08:38
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Beamer wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 07:34:
I just don't see a reason why this going exclusive, or non-Steam, and being cheaper is a reason to not buy, or buy when it's discounted, when this had been something you were planning to buy.

Is this a weird loyalty to Steam, the multi-billion dollar corporation that doesn't even really bother with customer support? Yes, Epic is worse on this front, but has Steam really done much to deserve passionate loyalty other than being first and being ubiquitous?

A lot of people here love Metro. Metro was made by 4A games, which is pretty much just Metro. If people decide not to buy this solely because it's on Epic, not Steam (and plenty of games have been Steam exclusives in the past), then we're probably looking at the final Metro. We all read the Starbreeze article yesterday, and 4A is even more dependent upon its games being hits than Starbreeze was. There's zero diversification.

If the game sucks, yeah, don't buy it or wait. But it being sold in Store A and not Store B just seems an odd reason to be furious and deny yourself something you'd been interested in.

For me it comes down to refusing to reward anti-consumer practices, and platform exclusivity is a big one for me. I'm not talking about 1st party games like EA's Anthem or Epic's own Fortnite, but 3rd party games whose exclusivity is an arbitrary limitation. You mentioned third-party games that were "exclusive" to Steam and I assume you mean the ones that required a Steam account to play it. However, those games were all still sold on competing platforms, often at deeper discounts than could be found on Steam or with better perks and bonuses. The choice of which platform to purchase on was never removed, making it far less anti-consumer in my view. So no, as much of a fan I am of the brilliant Metro series, I won't be buying it until the exclusivity is removed.
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Jan 29, 2019, 08:20
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xXStellarDadXx wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 22:56:
This game was looking forward to like i was Anthem...RIP on both...moving on to other better options...

Really? Better options huh?

And what will be your excuse when those so called better options do the same things? Full of shit much?
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Ozmodan wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 07:31:
An absolute asinine move by the developer. Guess I will avoid this game for the foreseeable future.

Publisher, not developer.
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I just don't see a reason why this going exclusive, or non-Steam, and being cheaper is a reason to not buy, or buy when it's discounted, when this had been something you were planning to buy.

Is this a weird loyalty to Steam, the multi-billion dollar corporation that doesn't even really bother with customer support? Yes, Epic is worse on this front, but has Steam really done much to deserve passionate loyalty other than being first and being ubiquitous?

A lot of people here love Metro. Metro was made by 4A games, which is pretty much just Metro. If people decide not to buy this solely because it's on Epic, not Steam (and plenty of games have been Steam exclusives in the past), then we're probably looking at the final Metro. We all read the Starbreeze article yesterday, and 4A is even more dependent upon its games being hits than Starbreeze was. There's zero diversification.

If the game sucks, yeah, don't buy it or wait. But it being sold in Store A and not Store B just seems an odd reason to be furious and deny yourself something you'd been interested in.
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Jan 29, 2019, 07:31
 
An absolute asinine move by the developer. Guess I will avoid this game for the foreseeable future.
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Jan 29, 2019, 07:28
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Spektr wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 05:43:
Avus wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 23:37:
I can understand it is all about MONEY!! For me as well…. I will buy this game when it is BACK on Steam @ 75% discount.

Meanwhile I am still using Epic Game client as my FREE Subnautica game launcher.

You can still buy it as Steam preorder from third party websites. If I understand well those should be available on 2019 date.

Ohhh. Now that's an interesting point. Valve typically allows unlimited key generation (I believe also including for selling on 3rd party sites) in return for putting it for sale on Steam.
That is now going to mean that steam is fronting the bill and cost for all that... without getting any money in return.

That could be bad news for everyone else, if valve tightens up their key generation policy.
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Jan 29, 2019, 05:43
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Avus wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 23:37:
I can understand it is all about MONEY!! For me as well…. I will buy this game when it is BACK on Steam @ 75% discount.

Meanwhile I am still using Epic Game client as my FREE Subnautica game launcher.

You can still buy it as Steam preorder from third party websites. If I understand well those should be available on 2019 date.
Anyway I think it's an asshole move from Deep Silver and I am sure the game will be pirated from Epic store version by PC users who can't have it on Steam and that will wake them up on how stupid that move is.
This said, they are Russians they should know about piracy. So I wouldn't be surprised if it's a move to boost sales. People rush to buy it on third party websites like G2A or humble bundle (EDIT: Humble Bundle doesn't have it yet, so it's all those key sellers but I wouldn't give 50 euros for that game), so keys get depleted there and then they readd the game on Steam.
Anyway this kind of move is totally unfair to users, because unlike console exclusives, they don't respect given word and they don't delay release date because the game is not finished but because they are doing a commercial move. That's totally unheard of. For showing so little respect to their users, I hope they pay it in lower sales. And for this kind of move, I hope Epic pays the price too. From now on, all my projects will use Unity. And I will boycott Epic store. They don't have true originals anyway apart from Epic games. I am totally pissed off.
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Jan 29, 2019, 04:23
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Jan 29, 2019, 04:23
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I'll get the complete edition of the game when it's cheap. I can wait for two or even three years, no problem. I don't have a problem with the game being on Epic for now - maximizing profits is one of the most important goals in economy, so it is understandable, as is the goal of users to pay a cheap price and have easy access to their games, best of all in a single shop account. I haven't heard about 12% (EDIT: 18%!) higher payments to the people that have worked their asses off during crunch time, though... I guess the additional profit will go elsewhere?

Best idea would be if Steam, Origin, GOG, UPlay, Epic, and all the other would have ONE store or storefront and user account. They would still get the money and the competition could still go on under the hood (70/30 here, 88/12 there). But then there is the big problem: it is most likely that the DATA all of these stores record about us and our habits are much, much more worth than we can imagine. And this is why they all have their store fronts and gaming client software and have no intention to change this.

I hate it. All those companies are about as addicted to data as we are to oil. It is horrible, but it won't change and we all experience the bad consequences of these addictions.

IMO, it would be awesome if in two or three years the game will be availabe at GOG. This would solve all problems (expect for those of hardcore Steam fans).

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Jan 29, 2019, 03:59
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Jan 29, 2019, 03:59
 
Metro games and steam work perfectly on linux. Epic Store is a windows exclusive. I will pass..
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Jan 29, 2019, 03:32
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 Prez
 
Again, if all you have is exclusivity, you don't have a service worth using.
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RedEye9 wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 22:43:
jacobvandy wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 22:34:
An upcoming game with no release date ...
Release date
02/15/19

http://www.deepsilver.com/us/games/metro-exodus/


Did you literally stop reading 15 words into my post so you could make one of your own trying to spite me? All you had to do was finish the sentence you partially quoted in order to tell I was referring to another game (Satisfactory) in comparison to this one.
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I'm of two minds on this recent Epic vs Steam thing that's been going on.

On the one hand, Steam needs the competition. This will improve the percentages for the developers, this will have the two companies fighting for games with incentives, and that helps the devs, especially the smaller ones. It'll also result in Steam and Epic competing for customers. That benefits us. This kind of competition is how we get olds-school Steam sales back.

On the other hand, I don't want Steam to have so much competition that they are ever dethroned. I don't like the foundation that my entire game library is built on being unstable.
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NKD wrote on Jan 28, 2019, 23:34:
Gaben should just threaten to delist all of Deep Silvers games on Steam.
Great approach if you want to drive all other developers to Epic or alternatives. No developer wants to be held hostage by Gaben.
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