Metro exodus: a controversial story

The story surrounding Metro Exodus becomes increasingly complicated as we get closer to its release date. With exclusives in the Epic Store that provoke visceral reactions from users, an angry developer who threatens to make the Metro saga exclusive to consoles and Koch media / Deep Silver, distributors of the game, explaining the developer's words and taking the blame of the matter. The controversy with Metro Exodus has heated spirits in broad sectors of the internet.

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Metro Exodus: Exclusive and angry

Metro Exodus recently left Steam for a one-year exclusivity on the Epic Store. This angered many people and was widely considered a bad idea. The Epic Store offers a higher percentage of sales to developers and distributors, so from a short time ago here, we are seeing a certain exodus of game launches from Steam to the other digital distribution media.

Following this latest move, Valve, in a move unusual for them, made a public announcement criticizing the decision. Sales already made through Steam would be maintained, as well as future updates or DLCs, but there would be no more sales of Metro Exodus through Steam until a year after launch. Valve called this move unfair to the community after a long pre-sale time and criticized it being done almost without warning them in advance. To which THQ Nordic apologized saying that it was a decision of Koch Media (owner of the rights to the Metro saga), although THQ Nordic has owned Koch Media for a year.

This didn't do much to calm tempers in the gaming community, harshly critical of the Epic Store, even before the announcement.

Boycott and response

After the announcements of both Valve and THQ Nordic; The gaming community began to negatively bombard Steam reviews of previous games in the Metro series. And there we come to the next chapter in the story.

A user of a Russian online forum nicknamed Scynet, claiming to be a developer at 4A Games, who, although his identity could not be initially confirmed, was harshly criticized. Which, as a developer, is understandable; Since until the announcement of the transfer, all of the criticisms of Metro Exodus were positive. So the so-called Scynet wrote a response to the gamer community criticizing them.

In said statement, he acknowledged that, although the withdrawal of Steam could be inconvenient, Metro Exodus deserved the 2 minutes it takes to install the launcher from the Epic Store. as well as attacking the culture of Torrent and hacking of games, and that if in the end there was a boycott of the game, the following games in the saga would be exclusive to the console.

Calming down

Deep Silver and 4A Games, responding to the developer's message, explained their words like those of an injured worker with public reactions, and claiming that a PC version of all their releases is always at the center of their plans. Metro Exodus will be available in the Epic Store on February 15, 2019. And you, what do you think of this story? What do you think of the Epic Store and the news of the move?