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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Vio wrote on Jan 29, 2019, 10:17:
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.

How many can you name other than Hatred, a shitty excuse for a game that was designed solely to be offensive and make headlines, not to be a good game. A game made by people desperately hoping some school shooter cited it, so they could get more press coverage? A game whose primary marketing was "we're victims and everyone is trying to censor us!" despite, y'know, no one censoring them.

Plus, I can't find a single place that asked them to make changes to it. Beyond that, it seems like it was on sale everywhere. And if you bought it, sorry, we all have been screwed after buying a terrible game due to the marketing campaign.
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