Friday, February 15th 2019
Metro Exodus Packaging Appears, Steam Logo Simply Hidden Under A Sticker
The drama surrounding Metro Exodus continues unabated. Deep Silver which has ownership over the IP, was the one that decided to pull Metro Exodus from Steam in favor of a 1-year timed exclusivity deal on the Epic Games Store. If you've been following the drama thus far this is all public information. Furthermore, it was speculated that this move was made at the very last minute considering other retailers were originally advertising preorders as being Steam keys for quite some time right up until the news of the digital platform switch broke. Lending more credence to the fact this was a disruptive switch at the last minute is the physical packaging which was not altered for the game's launch and instead has a sticker covering the Steam logo. Truly for such an outstanding game, the mess of its launch should be remembered as a great example of how not to release a game.
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67 Comments on Metro Exodus Packaging Appears, Steam Logo Simply Hidden Under A Sticker
There's only maybe, if EPIC Forced THQ Nordic to do this, then well it get's more complicated.
what happened to Dead Island 2? what's a dvd?
If only 1 customer on steam choose to buy it on Epic, the other 2 just wait or go to Twitch and call it a day, how could this break even?
They lost 66% of their sales for like 10% more cut from Epic?
imo when all is said and done Deep Silver will make a lot of money on Exodus and Epic will have a lot more accounts which has the potential to sell more games already there and in the future when Epic does what they just did over and over again.
I suspect that your assumption is correct, but I'd still wait for numbers ;)