announced on their GDC stream
So its sales on Steam were 2.5x more than Last Light's on Steam?
Poorly worded.
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Metro: Exodus sold 2.5x more than Metro: Last Light on Steam launch aligned
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So its sales on Steam were 2.5x more than Last Light's on Steam?
Poorly worded.
Considering how much historically Steam makes up the total overall sales for almost every pc game this is bad news for Valve.
It's a misleading slide, though. We don't know if this is related to sales on Epic Games Store or they included Steam and retail copies (which were marketed to be released on Steam) as well.
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Does this include both Steam pre-orders and EGS purchases for Exodus PC sales? Is it comparing to Last Last, Last Light redux, or both combined? This is (near) uselessly vague.
I mean, it's not like Epic is giving us much data here too.
2.5x over sales during which period? What are the raw numbers?
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I didn't say that. There's no way to know but it wouldn't surprise me. Also physical copies exist so the statement in OP means very little.
Let us hope EGS isn't successful though if we don't want to get fucked in the future. It's weird that people actually want the EGS to be succesful as it will result in a worse experience for consumers in the short and long run.
Over the launch. That's it. They aren't providing less infos than an usual PR news. People are going in circles trying to frame this as misleading because they want to see the EGS store fail.
It's more I can't accept data that has zero context, but yeah, sure, it's because EGS hurt my feelings.
Lmao.ppl.saying.its.good. last light peaked at 16k. Thats low.shit. it was.obviously.going.to.do.better.from.the hype and shit and because.its a better game.
Yeah, actually, these numbers are probably indicative of how much more interest is in the series now than ever before more than anything.
BUT, I think we're still fucked. lol Even if the series sales were going to be significantly higher, anyways, this indicates that sales/revenue weren't necessarily hurt by its exclusion from Steam. Especially if Epic paid a handsome amount.
Most we can do now is hope Epic gets games like Bloodborne and Spider-man PS4 onto the platform to get something out of this.
That's when I bought it, and that's another docked point for fuckhead Epic. I don't want to support them, and I wish I waited for reviews on the game, it blows.
Me too and my activity feed was flooded over by friends buying the game.
This is actually relevant, especially considering that the Metro franchise has undoubtedly grown since the original release of Last Light through the Redux re-releases.
People don't realise that for one pissed Steam user there will be 1, 2 or even 3 Fortnite players who are seeing this game for the first time and want to buy it.
It means nothing at all. Last Light was a sequel to a new IP based on a book that not so many players purchased. It did well enough, turning out to be better than the first game and a technical showcase, of course it sold better than the first one and the third game sold better than the second, expecially with a massive marketing campaign the second one was missing.
There's a reason they didn't give an actual number, and where very vague about the figure.
Of course they don't realise it, this is Era. If the real world looked anything like Era, Fortnite would be a failure and kids would be running around wearing Gravity Rush 2 t-shirts.
The Epic Game Store is doing well, I'm happy for the devs benefiting from that.
https://www.apnews.com/Business Wire/b8e9b5975d434193b7932caa09d07924
and while we're talking about successful games on the EGS:
They did, which is they had to include Steam preorders on this number. It's pretty funny :)
This is good news then. Seeing how hardly anyone had a problem with games being steam exclusive by default, or situations like Halo where it's Windows Store + Steam, and nothing else, it's good to see people willing to buy games elsewhere. Fortnite helps a lot, and when Fortnite and it's Battle Royale hit PC people said it would fail since it wasn't on Steam. People on PC not realizing how open their platform is, or trying to pigeonhole its gaming capability down to one app is disappointing.
Yeah that's what I am wondering as well. That doesn't say much, and they listed how many users downloaded or got the free games.
Wait what? Are you joking or you got something to base this on?
The fact they're just using this vague number and not something actually tied to Epic Store is pretty telling. Glad the game is doing well though.
Wait, I'm not watching, but they gave solid numbers for the non-exclusive freebies, but fudged the numbers for the exclusive full-price game?
I love how.egs.fanatics think steam.would not be able.to.do.those numbers. 12k.only in.pre orders. Steam.wpuld have.sold much better than just 2.5x laat lights numbers