That seems to be an issue for a few. You are puting it like if you cant buy the game no more ..or need new hardware. The huge problem that your having is no more than a 5 min delay. So yea i misses that point as i thought it was irrelevant. That i think they would not have done that? Sure. But its nothing in the grand scheme of things. 

After reading the other post with the translation. If thats all it takes for you not to buy the game .Then yea i dont think you where a fan to beging with.

Only thing i can give you is no ofline play. That is a serious issue. And diferent prices for diferent regions. The 2 weeks thing i already comented on cgi's post.

I suppose i dont

I get what you mean. But lo ike you say. For people to get it a big guy has to fall .But they are the ones who can survive a few failures. By the time a big guy like ea falls a good number of little to medium dev/publishers would have already lost. Worst thing is it might be their first attemp or something while ea s scamed millions. So i cant wish to bankrupt anybody.

I feel negative press like this only diminishes the hype of what could be a great title. I do agree with you.

OT - So its an Epic Store sale or no Metro 4 game in near future on PC? Ouch 

I almost find it worth it to get banned for your post. The publisher changed launchers 2 weeks before release.  That is anti consumer because gamers were expecting it on steam and the game was pre ordered on steam.  Oh thats ok they will honor it next year.  Don't you get pc and console players are the same they are consumers and should be against any negative nonsense of the greedy publishers.

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.

They have made the choice to add a hurdle to those people who want to buy this game... you know a lot of people when they are presented with a hurdle do not feel obliged to jump over it to hand a company cash, often they might consider such things as other ways around the hurdle, because in my mind right now I can definitely think of a way of getting metro onto my PC without going through the epic store for it... and that version most certainly won't have any background drm or issues getting season pass content for free as well.

The company selling it has done this though, they choose to add the extra task of adding additional software to users PC's to buy the game and creating and protecting a new account on another service just to give them cash, say you take a poll of 1,000 people who are considering buying this game, every person exactly is 50/50 as to if they wanted to buy metro or not at launch... how many of that 1,000 people would see the requirement of an additional launcher and account which they need to trust with their CC info as a positive to tip them from being on the fence over to being a purchaser of the software? do you imagine more of these 50/50 people would become buyers or avoid because of the additional steps now required to buy the game.... as in, would this move net them any additional software number sales in the real world? Of course it wont, Epic are banking on the fact that the games lost sales will be made up for by customers coming into their store and them earning extra cash since they've then taking steams cut of the profits out and their is the potential that a gamer will on the epic store would buy an addition game or two there.... they have willingly sacrificed the number of copies which Metro will sell just to try and get additional profits from other avenues with this exclusivity, so I absolutely see this as a move where the dev doesn't care about how many gamers buy and play their game.... but just about getting whales in the door of their store so they can nickle and dime the customers who remain loyal to make up for the lost customers who don't buy it.

wow.... that's wall of texty, I'm sleepy! sorry.

As I've mentioned before If a car company builds a car with drum brakes and no seat belts then later on adds disc brakes and seat belts then years later another company releases a car you would expect it to have those features.

Or... They simply could have left the Epic Store in development a little longer, we simply do not know if they will have feature parity with Steam anytime soon, it might even take them a decade, no one knows.
Besides... The PC is littered with the bones of Digital-Distrubution stores that promised big... And under-delivered... Like Games for Windows live.

uDontPlay, Origin and Windows Store are primary examples. - How many years have they been out?

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But instead of jumping the gun and testing an unknown platform, hows about we hold out and see how things pan out?

Erm. Because they could make money with a potential Metro 4 on PC? Metro sells best on PC, it's primarily a PC franchise.
If they want to make the millions of smacko's... Then they need to do right by their primary fanbase.

But we PC Gamers are entitled to not hand over our hard earned cash if they can't deliver what PC gamers ultimately want... And they really don't have the right to whinge about it either.

Steam is a private company... So they aren't motivated by sheer greed to placate shareholders every quarter.

Steam really made Digital Distribution go mainstream... They consolidated PC gaming into one place... They made PC gaming more accessible... They made PC gaming cheaper... And the list never ends.
Steam has earned it's goodwill and support... And so has GOG.com.

Steam has literally been the cornerstone of PC gaming for years, even when Microsoft turned it's back on PC gaming to focus on it's console efforts, Steam was paving the way and showing the world how lucrative PC gaming can be... And now that various companies have taken note how successful Valve is... They want a piece of that pie.

Epic used to be a PC centric company until they ponied up with Microsoft during the 7th gen and changed focus, they are just riding on the success that is Fortnite right now.

If anything I hope Valve takes note and starts smashing out Steam-exclusives like Left 4 Dead, Half Life, Portal, DOTA, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress releases..