Metro dev says next game won't be on PC if players boycott. EDIT: Official Statement made

[Ganoncrotch]

so just to get this straight.... they limited the number of places where their game can be bought from... and if people don't come to their store to buy the game... they're going to limit even further the platforms they're going to sell their product on? How do they imagine this would go for the sales of future products? especially given the architecture of consoles and PC right now this must be the easiest generation ever to port games back to the PC it would be them just cutting off their nose to spite their face, I mean... who gets hurt if they follow up on this threat? The people who boycott their games on the PC because they locked them away in epics store aren't going to have bought the titles anyway so it has zero impact on them, those gamers who did buy metro on the epic store will be getting shat on and QQ'd at so they'll be pissed off by it as well, it's creating a lose/lose/lose outcome to their current issue.

Also a few people in this thread question PC gamers who would want to stick to Steam and be loyal to a single brand of pc gaming when the platform is open, you have to think about it like this, for the last decade or so you've got a ton of PC gamers who've moved away from piracy and embraced steam as a digital only marketplace which would exist forever as the de-facto place to get pc games, they've invested hundreds and thousands into their libraries of games on that platform and now in the last 3-4 years the number of individual game devs which now have their own stores has jumped a load, rather than one platform in Steam for gaming you now have Origin, Uplay, Battle.Net, Windows10Store, Epicgamesstore, that weird LoL launcher and a few others which I can't think of right now, the thing is... if one of those takes over and becomes the new home for gamers on PC then their is the potential of Steam running into issues in retaining customers which has that knock on effect of steam being less vital to PC gaming.... and that library of 1000s of games potentially becoming lost if Steam was to ever go under. PC gamers are right to defend Steam, they've literally invested cash into it.