Metro Exodus Becomes a Timed Exclusive to Epic Store

[Chazore]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

ArchangelMadzz said:

Oh no, installing and and making an account another store?! That's truly terrible. 

It may be just because I don't care about this game. But I have a steam account and not an Epic account. Look, I get it, it would it be annoying to do those 5 minutes of work to download and buy a game I wanted? But does that mean I'm gonna through a tantrum (not referring to you, just the internet in general) about it for a year and not play a game I actually want to play? You gotta be crazy. 

From my understanding you can't even play games offline with the Epic Game Store (although you might be able to jump through some hoops to do it). In fact Epic Games Store doesn't even have it's own forum system, so players have to go on Steam to ask questions about their version of the game, which is very detrimental if they have problems that need fixing. Steam is also consistently lower priced than most stores. 

The arguments for Epic Games Store are basically 1 ) It's not a big deal and 2 ) Epic is being pro-consumer by giving Steam competition, even though they're using anti-consumer practices in the proccess. Both arguments are obviously flawed. But yeah .. there is some exaggeration perhaps, that's just how people interpret things differently though. 

You forgot another two:

3) "I don't care about all the features Steam and the other competition has (GoG being DRM free for one). thus nothing Steam does matters, and Epic can do anything it wants".

4) "Steam needs to make more games" (despite them having released one recently, as well as working on multiple VR games and a storefront visual refresh, but that's nothing right?. yet Epic have destroyed two of theirs within the past year and a half, one of them being a beloved PC IP (I can pull that card too frogboy).

This pro Epic crowd comes off as being very arrogant and foolish. Like the kind of crowd that supports the wrong party for the wrong reasons, while also giving themselves the backfire effect (Where they argue in the face of facts and being wrong in general). They seemingly want the competition to do less work, stay secure and form their own monopolies, while also denying the competition anything to go with (which is what we're starting to see from both Discord and Epic). It also appears as if that same crowd wants all the features we've come to expect from Steam, and other clients (for the little those clients have adopted by now) to die and be done away with (and I know if they were, they'd instantly be brought up as "pro" points from a console vs PC argument, because they were used at the start of this gen).