This is less of a factor for a purely singleplayer game like Metro Exodus, but this'll be an even bigger deal when it happens an anticipated multiplayer title - suddenly, your friends list is split across two clients. Psychologically, "you want this, you want this, you want this, you know you want this" but then "well, you can't have it unless you go to this other place you're not familiar with yet" is a bit rotten.
The first is that some of us will have had banner ads for Metro Exodus foisted upon us whenever we load up Steam for some time now, or been directed to the Steam page from ads on sites and videos. It's not unfair, either, to people who had previously pre-ordered the game via Steam, as such sales will all be honoured, and those folks will all "be able to access the game and any future updates or DLC through Steam."īut there are three ways, to my mind, in which "unfair" becomes more appropriate.
Irritating, sure: I know I don't want my taskbar cluttered with more launchers. It's certainly a shock for anyone who's long been planning to buy the game via Steam, but it's unclear how having to use a different storefront is unfair.
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Valve are characteristically rather quiet about their hitherto unassailable dominance of the PC games market, so a few words in this case speak volumes: John already mentioned Valve's response in his editorial about why Epic's store has a lot more work to do if it wants to make a play for the iron throne, but it bears highlighting separately. It's for that reason that Valve are now claiming that the Metro Exodus about-face is "unfair to customers." More startling was that it happened while Metro was just a fortnight (ohhhhh) from release, as opposed to Epic making eyes at a mid-development game.
The Fortnite bunch have been making a play to turn their store into a serious Steam rival for a few weeks now, but the much-anticipated third Metro game was a hell of a scalp to take from Valve. There were shocked faces all round when Metro Exodus was suddenly declared to be exclusive to Epic's increasingly pugnacious new store yesterday.