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

[AngryLittleAlchemist]

Lafiel said:

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

Bad argument. The developers didn't make the decision - it's even stated in the article. There's also no way they would ever make as much money with Epic as they would on Steam, at least not on game sales alone. It's a moneyhatting deal, very clearly. They would make more money being on both platforms. 

you can't know that without knowing how big he moneyhat is and the amount of sales it'd have gotten

But I even stated that in the reply you're quoting ... ? That's why I prefaced it with "at least not on game sales alone". 

This isn't a particularly positive outlook on the situation, either. Let's look at this scenario critically. You're saying that we don't know how much money they are being given for exclusivity, and that even with abysmal sales compared to the potential Steam version they may make more money. That's not a sustainable way of doing business though, because it means less people play your game, which means less people are interested in your franchise, which means bad prospects for the growth of said franchise, which means later installments have less potential. And I imagine most publishing deals are massively in favor of profit for the publisher and not the developer, though obviously the publisher would fund the dev team based on how successful the venture was. The only way this is sustainable is if Epic kept making the franchise exclusive to the Epic Game Store, which is a possibility, but I don't think either company will find this was worth it in the end honestly...

Also, while we don't know for sure, I think it's a fair assumption to make that this game would have sold at least 2 million on Steam, as all previous games passed that benchmark at least.