I'm going to kind of ignore the outrage in the thread and just talk about what the developer seems to be saying, though obviously it's translated by Google and not entirely trustworthy.
From the studio standpoint, I do understand his frustration. Fans are going to skip something they worked on for years because they don't want to download a launcher? I'd have trouble with that, too. Of course, what he's missing is that a lot of buyers aren't necessarily deep level fans, they're people who can be swayed one way or the other by simple things. There has been hundreds of times when I've bought one game over another because of a stray line or text or a random user review. It's not black and white.
As for the line that has everyone grabbing the noose, it doesn't seem like a big deal to me. "If at all all the PC players announce a boycott of the Metro," makes it sound as though he's talking about the game having close to zero sales on PC, which, obviously, would make them reconsider the platform for future games in the series. I mean, yeah. Why would that shock anyone?
