THQ Nordic CEO Lars Wingefors has confirmed that the majority of the digital sales for Metro Exodus are coming from the Epic Games Store. This basically means that the Epic Games Store is the leading digital platform for Metro Exodus, something that re-affirms the successful PC launch of the game on Epic’s store.
As Lars Wingefors told PCGamesN:
“Epic Games store has exceeded our expectations in terms of sales in actual units of both Metro Exodus and Satisfactory during the quarter. Epic Games store is in fact the group’s leading digital platform in terms of revenue generated by units sales in the quarter ending March.”
Earlier this week during THQ Nordic’s financial presentation, Wingefors claimed that the absolute majority of the revenue for Metro Exodus comes from the console platforms. Since some misunderstood that statement, Wingefors offered a more accurate explanation about the game’s overall sales.
“My statement yesterday about console share of Metro Exodus sales was referring to the two console platforms combined – both physical and digital revenue. This is still the majority of the revenues of Metro Exodus.”
What this ultimately means is that, for better or worse, the Epic Games Store version of Metro Exodus sold well, and that it exceeded THQ Nordic’s expectations.
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Advocating piracy because a game isn’t available on your preferred store. Just play something else, I promise you won’t run out of games.
Nice straw man
Quite the opposite.
Nah. I will to play what i want. And since i can’t buy it, i will pirate it. They did this. That’s what you get when you screw over your customers.
Why can’t you buy it? And what entitles you to pirate it?
I won’t buy anything from Epic, ever. And i’m not really a fan of FPS games on PS4. Uhh what entitles me? I want to play the game and finish the series. Duh.
I haven’t bought anything from Epic either, though I’ve thoroughly enjoyed some of the free games they’ve had on offer.
But per your own words, you’re just making excuses for piracy rather than sucking it up and moving on.
Well, then, enjoy your freebies. I’m not making any excuse for anything. It’s my money i’m spending on that game, if i’m spending over 50 euro for a game, might as well play it how it was intended to..ON Steam.
So no, i’m not “sucking it up”. Oh i’ve already moved. I bought the game from Skidrow store just after release, and will buy it again from Steam. You, however, can go suck epic’s small asian d*k, maybe you will get even more free games.
I advocate piracy because the game doesn’t have a demo and it’s sh*t
That’s a legit argument, but not the case here.
Get off your pony.
I’ve been off the wagon for a while, thank you very much.
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Are you afraid daddy is going to catch you using naughty words on the internet?
You say that but it seems to be quite the opposite.
Did daddy install a profanity filter on your phone?
yeah i will play the pirated metro and the other 400+ games i own i see no problem
Game is so bad i dont even pirate it
What fool bought it from Epic? Own up!
Epic, make piracy great again.
Epic Games/Tim Sweeney bought all those copies. I am not kidding (check my other comment).
Not true, Randy B*chford also bought a couple of copies
Randy maybe installs #EpicFail Store games on his USB sticks so to further overwrite the CP he allegedly stores on them!
It’s magic trick research!
More and more AAA developers will steer clear off Steam in the coming years.
EGS gives devs a much larger percentage than Steam. Not to mention going exclusive on EGS means your game is featured prominently in a curated catalogue in front of a large number of gamers whereas on Steam your game is liable to be lost in an enormous pile of tens of thousands of shovelware titles.
Curated catalogue…3/4 of the content is garbage.
One could argue that’s better than 99% of Steam’s catalogue being garbage, though Steam would still have more good games by sheer numbers.
Yet i can filter out all that garbage in Steam, you cant in the Epic poor piss frontend of a page/launcher.
Can you though?
Yes
Rather buy the most garbage indie shet, than buy something from Epic.
you know where to put this
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Let’s drill the shill buddy xD
LMAO !
“EGS gives devs a much larger percentage than Steam. ”
Yeah they pay devs like tens of millions of dollars to put it on their store..no wait thats not what you meant.
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Epic shill tards don’t comprehend that. Don’t try to explain it to them, law of averages literally isn’t a concept they can wrap their brain cell around. It doesn’t matter how much percentage of x you get if x = 0 or x < y where y is "amount earned before Steam's cut".
Uhmmm… Isn’t Epic Store the only digital PC storefront the game is On? What’s with the loosey goosey with the english language? What is happening here.
It’s PR/Damage control. The CEO stated the exact opposite yesterday and daddy Tim must have been upset and called him out on it.
The only storefront on PC. He’s talking about digital console sales. So this statement basically depends on how many digital console sales there are.
The sales probably aren’t that great, but they’re probably not that bad either. Who knows though.
no, it doesn’t matter, console could have sold 3 bazillion unit and epic only 1,the latter would still be their highest revenue per unit
WE SHIPPED MORE UNITS THAN ANY OTHER GAME WE MADE.
Yeah but how many you sold?
SHUT UP, ITS THE FASTEST SELLING GAME WE MADE
Yeah but a week later everyone found out its trash so they stopped buying it.
SHUT UP THE SALES ARE HIGHER THAN THE LAST TOMB RAIDER GAME.
Yeah but the last tomb raider game came out in 2008 and didnt cost 200 bazillion dollars to make. So you got a large development cost to cover up.
SHUT UP ITS FINE.
News article “square enix laments tomb raider low sales”
Man i am so used to the BS by now.
Dude I’m cracking the hell up man. Thank you, I love how you played all the parts so well. Just brilliant man ?
Great job. But you forgot to mention how they will use revenue instead of profit to trick people.
Sad to say peope like Jim Sterling doesn’t understand the difference because reeee capitalism is evil reee
oh its worse than you think certain devs block steamspy from showing copies sold so they can lie to investors to get publishing deals and more money from venture capitalists, then at some point, one day, they are bought out by thq nordic.
I don’t doubt that at all. But at least steam spy gives some idea.
Rather than strong sales or they go by the amount of money “made”. And by made I mean revenue not profit
Um the last Tomb Raider game came out in 2018.
It’s the only PC storefront, but they also get digital sales from Sony/MS.
The article states most of their revenue came from the Epic store (and considering it’s been full price the entire times, one can deduce total sales).
It’s a pretty clear article…
It’s only “loosey goosey” if you’re illiterate.
Being your usual c*ntish self, I see.
That is still not an accurate read. The majority of revenue came from consoles, this was clearly stated. Now if you only consider digital copies, then the Epic game store accounted for the majority of revenue by unit sales. What this means is other digital platforms may have sold more in terms of total units or generated higher total revenues, but Epic had the highest revenue per unit based on the total units sold.
They are using very deliberate language to avoid commenting on actual numbers. It would have been a different story if they stated in no short terms that Epic generated the most digital revenue. Yet they still had to add the “by units sales” to clarify.
Units sales, correct. Revenue/# of units sold. If this number is high, and revenue was high, units sold has to be high. It’s basic math as the revenue per unit hasn’t changed until just recently.
no, he didn’t say revenue was high, just revenue PER UNIT
100/2 is higher than say 200/5
it’s also easy to see why, epic store hasn’t had any selling tactic applied to it (like a pre order discount, for example), and it’s a store that pushes hidden costs (say a transaction fee) onto the costumer
revenue per unit fluctuate widly, even if you don’t see it
oh yeah, forgot about it, it’s actually even simplier, EGS takes 12%, sony/ms take 30%, EGS is always gonna be “highest revenue PER UNIT”, even if they sold 1 unit on it
No, since Playstation Store and Xbox Store exist.
They confirmed that consoles sold much more though and I’m sure it didn’t sell nearly as close as the originals did on Steam
This is just PR
They’re including PSN and XBL on purpose to be disingenuous. My coworkers and I had a good laugh at this just now, too. Console gamers by and large don’t buy digital games because that would mean they own them forever and can’t trade them in to GameStop so they can hop to the next brand new game without consequences.
It’s also on the PS Store and on the Xbox Games Store. It sold more on the Epic Store than on the PS Store or Xbox Store individually but combined the PS Store and Xbox Store sold more.
Actual Numbers of GTFO, Simple really.
Try steamspy, you fu*cking moron. They provide actual numbers. But i really doubt you even know to count to 10. Better pirate than a dirty shill.
It’s actually pretty accurate. It doesn’t matter if it’s not official, it does it’s job just fine for so many years. I don’t know what makes me cringe more, your grammar, or your stupidity. Perhaps both. Ignorant little shill.
you know steamspy was written and maintained by the guy who runs the epic game store, right?
Huh? You mean Tim Sweeney? I don’t think so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_Spy
Well, that’s weird. Still, doesn’t change anything about Steamspy.
Shut it, Kim Sweeney!
Bahahahahah @Kim Sweeney. You just won the internet. ???
Zinger!
You f* mor0n kid should go play in the traffic
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nobody cares, and stop surfing internet with your phone you filthy peasant.
Oh no. I have a phone that means i am a peasant .Would you like me post only 4K images form now on ? ?
yeah
Do you not have phones?
I think this is because Telltale died and their licenses got cancelled by the rights holders.
Yep, they just got removed from GOG too.
I see. Thanks for the clarification.
Lmao. Bought that game months ago. I doubt it will become Epic Exclusive.
RiME is now Free on Epic Store, can’t recommend this game enough. It’s one of my favorites from last year and everyone should play it.
Sorrg, GOG gave me Rime for free some sales agoand still I haven’t touched. Walking simulators are boring
Lmao. Epic saved your life, eh? That’s the only way you can finally play something else free, instead of Fortnite all day.
thank you for your counsel and suggestion like always fernando, you are one of the role models in dsog, i want to be a non paying egs advocate when i grow up.
Haha, ???
I just claim them on the site.
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It’s a very good game indeed.
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” the majority of the digital sales for Metro Exodus are coming from the Epic Games Store. ”
Why, i can buy it from anywhere else? Wtf is this sht?
PS Store, Xbox Store.
I tell you, the majority of sales are coming from consoles and skidrow’s store. Epic doesn’t provide any real number.
id buy game from skidrow’s store if they removed the drm. No seriously id pay money for that.
Still don’t trust Epic with a ten foot pole + their client sucks
“Epic Games store has exceeded our expectations in terms of sales in
actual units of both Metro Exodus and Satisfactory during the quarter” wait wait wait isnt the news was that metro exodus did most sales from the consoles and almost nothing on epic store ? Again feeding people with lies lol
Mmm, love this kind of damage control after basically admitting the epic sales tanked
Stop spreading disinformation.
It’s not disinformation when it’s a fact. Burrito brain.
It’s literally the opposite of the truth. The article/quote clearly states that most of their revenue came from Epic game sales. Like it or not, the store and their tactics are working.
Says who? Epic can say whatever he wants. They can say that Exodus is the best selling game on PC of all time. No facts are involved. I don’t trust a word that comes from those cock*suckers.
Flawed logic
No ? how you come to this conclusion you f*cking moron ?
The quote clearly states that most of the sales are coming from consoles.
But here’s the thing: Redux and Last Light sold way better on PC than they sold on consoles.
If Metro was on Steam, it would have outsold the console versions.
Stop crying
https://tv.streamfabriken.com/thq-nordic-q5-2019
Watch this and tell me it’s disinformation.
What’s happening right now is damage control because Wingefors said something he shouldn’t, so he has to “clarify” something he said that was very obvious like the game did better at the beginning of the year before the game was pulled from Steam.
Unlucky for you PR guys I am godlike at english comprehension/reading between the lines of BS PR statements:
“Epic Games store is in fact the group’s leading digital platform in terms of revenue generated by units sales in the quarter ending March.”
This means that every copy sold on the Epic Games Store indirectly earned them a lot of money. For example if Epic Games bribed them $60 million and they sold only 100,000 copies on the Epic Games Store then each copy is worth $600 + (0.88 x average price of the game).
So true
– oh man, epic store is so greate! every copy of metro is coming from there!
– but sir, epic store is the only store available for buyng metro on pc!
– shtap!!
its like EA for the sims.
I love how the CEO claims that the majority of the digital sales come from the Epic Store but doesn’t give any actual numbers.
If THQ Nordic or Epic wants to say something meaningful then they can tell us how many copies sold at EGS for PC. Epic just keeps saying “we sold lots and lots of copies for PC”. Well, how much is a lot? 1 million? 2 million? How many?
It’s been like,
Epic shill: Our sales are longer than a piece of string
Public: How long is a piece of string?
Epic shill: We’re not telling you
Public: mmkay
We sold so much on EGS. More than 1 copies! incredible!
Show us the numbers you clowns.
But is the only way to buy it how could you say its successful?
the only platform on pc to get the game
i think john has now slow brain apparently
and didn’t they just said that they just covered development cost ?
nice journalistic skills DSO
FIRST, THEY HAVE USED THE STEAM PLATFORM TO PROMOTE THE GAME BEFORE SWITCHING TO THE EGS CANCER.
SECOND, IT IS EXCLUSIVE TO THE EGS CANCER, SO WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH THE “LEADING DIGITAL PLATFORM” ???
Um….. sure. In other breaking news: Starbucks just claimed that Starbucks stores have shown the best sales rate of Starbucks coffee. Who knew, right?
In another “captain obvious” moment, I sure hope the EGS is highest in digital sales, considering if you want it on PC, you can’t even buy a physical copy. So let’s compare the entire PC digital sales, to consoles which offer physical still, then boast how the PC version sold best digitally.
I mean, we all know this is PR damage control spin, but my god, do these morons even try?
Woah, who would imagine that the only PC digital platform for the game could be the leader!
I’m baffled!
If EGS is the only place to get it on PC then those words ring very, very hollow. If it came out on steam and EGS I can put money on the fact that Steam wouldve outsold EGS 30:1 if not more.
Lies lies and more lies.
EGS is the only store you can buy the game from >>> leading platform?
Obvious Epic shill. God, you look pathetic now.
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I heard Houston Metropolitan Transit Authority is Houston’s LEADING method of public transportation….
Doesn’t epic have a one-year exclusivity deal lmao? Of course they would be the leading digital platform. It was only available on steam for a short time.
“Epic Games store is in fact the group’s leading digital platform”
Well, no s*it its the only store that sell this game. What a joke.
Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.
https://www.vg247.com/2019/05/23/metro-exodus-sales-majority-on-consoles/
It’s the only platform. Not difficult to be “leading”.
It needs to be re written,
The majority of our digital sales come from Epic games store,Because people can’t buy it on Steam until next year!
Good one!
of course getting a couple mil in copies bought from epic itself will be classified as copies sold. guarantee one day they will announce copies sold and it was legit a loophole that the exclusivity money paid was rewritten as copies told. and yeah… sure they might fool us but in the end they are the ones making no money anyways
Uhhhhhhhhh? Epic Store is the only place selling the game…..
ya ya, wateva..