Glass half full, people! In a few years, Valve might just have no choice but to go back to making games again lol
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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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Just for honesty , I live far away from USA or NA , have no regional pricing , Steam and Epic charging me in US dollars , and I still get the $50 in Epic store
Capitalism hard at work creating competition and lowering prices for the little guy.
If you actually read my post instead of cutting out 80% of it for a quick reaction you could see i said exactly that.
He isnt suggesting that. He is saying that this might happen. Why do PC-Gamers in 3rd world countries actually buy games nowadays? Its because of regional pricing and availabilty there.
I think this is a fact, based on history of this happening with other stores and nearly anytime gamer's don't like excessive pricing or behavious / support from a company.
But let's not paint this as "every single PC gamer out there", because it never is:
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I don't think that's a denial so much as an acknowledgement that it wouldn't really be up to the Epic Store. Giving Epic Store keys to third-party key resellers would be a publisher decision. All the Epic Store controls is whether they give out redemption keys at all, and the limits/costs of doing so. They wouldn't be in the position of saying certain resellers are officially sanctioned or not.
They are still a high profile company.
Sure Pyre peaked at over 3K players , where as transistor peaked over 6K. Doesn't mean they are low profile or struggling. (numbers as of current post)
I was always going to buy it on PS4, but now if I'm feeling petty enough I might just buy it second-hand a year later. Already got a huge backlog so it can wait. I'm on the side of everyone hating the way Epic is behaving btw.
It would be 'competition' if the game were on sale everywhere with Epic perhaps providing extra incentive, but this shit they're doing isn't competition, and will open the floodgates for other launchers popping up all over the place. Imagine having 20 launchers installed on your PC to play 20 different exclusives lol.
An indefinite quantity of users pirating a game instead of paying more for a product with less functionnalities. Nahhhh...
You mean publishers, and yes, that's typically how legitimate keysellers work.
If by a few months you mean 12+ when it's back on Steam, ya same
Wow, consider me truly surprised. and yes, I meant publishers :)
FYI cdkeys is very good about refunding your preorders if the platform the key is for changes. Just ask support and they will do it, no hassle. I've done it a few times before.
not on the epic game store. I bet you they will sell a third at most because of this decision.
they must have got a lot of money from epic because yup I believe this will really hurt sales.
I guess I ain't about that Metro Exodus life anymore cause Steam charges immediately for preorder apparently.
You're pretty shitty at math then.
They get 75%/80% on Steam, not 70%, for starters.
For seconds, they are also discounting the game by 16%.
Math can't possibly be so hard you don't understand that the difference between 12% and 25% is smaller than 16%. They are literally being paid less on the epic store than on Steam.
So yes, they were paid. There's no question to this. Especially considering the one year deal. You don't sign one of these without being paid for it.
Interesting, I thought they get retail keys? Didn't the official Metro twitter say those are tied to Steam?
My eyebrows are up on this, honestly. Agree to disagree. If you're curious, I'd read up on the marketing "halo effect." People tend to engage through what's associated with what they like. That acts as its own curation of what they're exposed to. The value of the Fortnite audience within the Epic launcher is that they're not a theoretical, and that they're fresh eyes as far as most of the PC market is concerned.
It's still £49.99 on EGS just like Steam, but with EGS I lose out on Steam forums, potential Proton/Steam Play support, Steam controller/SCAPI support and Steam cards.
I literally gain nothing from this going to EGS, and lose quite a lot, for no discount.
This money hatting of games is cancerous.
Better to be a thief than install a new program, apparently.
I guess, US buyers are doing well while rest of world are getting fucked by this discount. But hey competition.
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That's is 99% of the world's problem. Still 50$ < 60$.
So you didn't read and realize the discount is US only
And you wonder why people are complaining?
Console gamer here.
I genuinely don't understand the fuss.
If a game was both on Steam and Epic what difference does it make where you buy it from.
I don't understand why people would skip a title because of the store you need to buy it from.
Thank in advance.
I genuinely don't understand the fuss.
If a game was both on Steam and Epic what difference does it make where you buy it from.
I don't understand why people would skip a title because of the store you need to buy it from.
Thank in advance.
You don't understand or want to read it seems.
This thread has the answers.it makes sense that so many of the 'what is the matter' are all console users.
Well I found it quite telling that Epic have not said that they'll offer publishers unrestricted free key generation. I think if they were offering that they'd say so. Without offering that, there's no way we're going to see equivalent to what we have for Steam keys today.
News to me Canada and the UK got annexed by Britain. Why are we trying to make a wall again?
Even with the ops recent update 3 minutes ago it is inaccurate. The messaging is getting garbled because Epic is moneyhatting so quickly and furiously previous arrangements are being updated regularly.
sorry if i made a mistake but i don't think i'm misreading it. my point is that a lot of the people defending epic on buying exclusives aren't in favor of that practice because of some principle, they just dislike steam and valve. so they probably wouldn't be OK with valve doing the same thing.
Chinese gamers literally cant install the Epic Store.
And for Vietnamese, Malaysian etc. Gamers the game costs USD, 2-3 times more than before.
No one is advocating for piracy, but that is what will happen...
As of tomorrow, It isn't both on Steam and Epic. The game is coming out in two weeks and all of a sudden today they are pulling it off Steam.
And there are even more features that aren't listed like achievements etc.
"Competition will lead to cheaper games"
"Games are factually more expansive everywhere but in the US"
"But i live in the US, so go fuck you, got mine, GOD BLESS AMERICA, USAUSAUSA"
