Metro Exodus Becomes a Timed Exclusive to Epic Store

[ArchangelMadzz]

CGI-Quality 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. 

This issue for most is the timing, on top of a lousy and bare bones storefront. But the former is the biggest problem with this situation. Many people have legit complaints about it, rather than just audible 'tantrums' on a forum.

That said, yes, a select few will use this as a platform to bitch, but the size of the complaints state that this is a larger problem than typical internet moaning, one that I certainly hope to not see repeated.

This could be down to my own priorities. I don't use any of steams extra features. I use it to download and play games. 

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. 

If you can't play Epic downloaded games offline then that is a big issue. I haven't seen anything to confirm this only people having issues with Subnautica but if it's a system wide thing then that's shit.