Deep Silver and Epic Games have announced at GDC 2019 that the Epic Store release of Metro Exodus was a success as it surpassed the units that Metro: Last Light sold on Steam during its launch in 2013. In fact, Metro Exodus sold 2.5X times better than Metro Last Light did.
In other words, and despite some gamers claiming to boycott this particular release, it appears that this exclusivity deal paid off. Of course we don’t know the sales that Metro Exodus would have on Steam, however it’s good knowing that the game did well on the PC platform. Also, these figures are for the same time periods (so we are basically looking at the launch of Metro Exodus on the Epic Store versus the launch of Metro Last Light on Steam).
Let’s also not forget that there was a lot of controversy surrounding the Epic Store release of Metro Exodus. From its sadden Epic Store announcement to the amateurish developer comments (about not releasing the next Metro on the PC if Exodus did not sell well), Metro Exodus’ PC release was a roller coaster.
Still, it appears that the majority of PC gamers are fine with the Epic Games Store and this may explain why more developers and publishers have signed new exclusivity deals for their upcoming games.
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Well it doesnt suprise me since the game look really good and a lot of people were forced to buy it on epic, not to mention all the time the game was sponsored on steam main page. The sales would have been great on any platform.
Well it doesnt suprise me since the game look really good and a lot of people were forced to buy it on epic, not to mention all the time the game was sponsored on steam main page. The sales would have been great on any platform.
So you stop selling on steam and now you say it didn’t sold well?
Where is the logic? ???
Game developer are now new the Feminist of Game
Just to be clear dsogaming the game would have sold regardless on what platform cause its METRO, doesnt mean other games will succeed in the same process.
You might’ve sold more copies but you’ve lost our trust.
good joke if you heard of metro before
That’s a lot of bullshit, ofc it sold better in Epic since they stop selling it in Steam and replace the Steam keys with Epic ones…
The same bullshit every game company does, “Our game has reach 50 million of accounts” sounds pretty much what EPIC does when it comes to Fortnite, mostly because kids forgot their account passwords and just make a new one.
Since Steam Spy is dead and the owner now works for Epic, we dont have any other source, so we have to trust blindly on what company says. Funny thing is how nobody can come with a Epic Spy.
Also obligatory comment on how it sold despite cpy cracking it.
Come on its not the store, its the better game. What the store has to do with the sales numbers.
Well trying to compare metro 2 with metro 3 is kinda stupid in a way. Since metro is very successful series, and metro exodus looked amazing.
DAMAGE CONTROL On!
Yup!
Whenever a company pushes a PR message that says ‘Our latest product sold more than the last one but we’re not telling you how many units it sold and nor are we telling you how many units the last one sold’ then you know the stench of BS is high!
They’re yet again taking the consumer for being gullible fools. Games ‘journalists’ may be dumb enough to be fooled by vacuous PR claims but the consumer is not.
This is a really good point ^^^^^^
Lies
Metro Last light 16 k players on Steam
Metro Exodus 12k on steam
Oh really?
Citation needed Koch Media/Deep Silver.
Gee I wonder how that happened… When you funnel all your possible sales into one market place instead of multiple outlets of course you’ll get better sales against a single platform.
Another consideration is I wonder if Epic is also counting all the GPU (hardware) bundled keys that require an activation through Epic Store … That would also inflate these numbers.
Physical copies were also shipped with Epic keys, when the announcement were two weeks before release!! That was bullshit.
Yes and i’ve got a 30cm dong
Get in line buddy. mine is 2.5x bigger than the last one i had.
Mine is 2.5x smaller but I use mine better.
Can i call you Jazz ? 😀
You’ll never get a job at PC Gamer then!
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still i don’t believe them because they did not showed us the real sales number here (because they don’t want investor to be afraid from the real sales number) but instead they said it’s metro exodus sales more on epic store 2.5x than metro last light on steam. if they showed the true number i think valve also will show the true number of metro last light but they don’t want to show it because it is a lie. btw still we don’t know if they mean the 2.5x sales as (game copy or $ number) i could be wrong in everything i said but this is my opinion. 🙂 https://media0.giphy.com/media/EouEzI5bBR8uk/giphy-downsized-medium.gif
For example Physical copies that were sold on Pre – order when people thought the game was coming to Steam, are those being taken into account? There is a lot take into account and the article is SO SIMPLE that annoys me. Even John jumps into the conclusion that the “majority” of PC gamers are Ok with this…
you are right i forgot about this thing https://media2.giphy.com/media/oYtVHSxngR3lC/giphy.gif
Yes, those physical copies are bullshit.
I find this very hard to believe, specially given how the statement was given. Why are they comparing only to Last Light launch ? I mean after all, if the EGS was the massive sucess that they are claiming why not compare the 1 week numbers of the EGS and Steam Pre-orders ? Also why not mention the real number of units sold ?
Because its a lie? Or maybe a distort way of seeing the truth, or maybe its real, but just one vague source and the whole PC gaming media explodes in praising EPIC.
They did hold it hostage on the Epic store for 2 weeks, which in that interval is where the most of the sales happen. So saying that they did better than Steam sales, is like congratulating a runner for winning a race when they show up at the finish line in an Uber.
Well, the sales volume for Steam rose at least 1000% since 2013, so that doesn’t mean much.
Blame Gabe. This is a just a advice for Gabe fix a lot of problems on STEAM.
Like what?
Not bribing devs and signing blank checks to get exclusive stuff on Steam. According to your nickname and your avatar you should be more than happy with Steam, allowing those trashy hentai games to be on the store.
Steam is not perfect, but I dont think Gabe will stop playing Dota for a news post which source is a vague image found God knows where.
Sounds like somebody’s overdosed on low IQ Jim Sterling videos and/or propaganda from PC Gamer!
Say what you will about jim sterling, but unabated capitalist publisher greed is as anti-consumer as it gets. I’ll gladly foot his bill till eternity until he is blue in the face from sh**ting on microtransaction addiction culture. You can be tired of the message, but doesn’t make it any less true.
https://pics.onsizzle.com/capitalism-is-evil-turning-point-usa-buy-my-movies-to-14304928.png
what problems?
So Original Last Light 2 million + sales in the entirety of its life span.
So the Epic statement means nothing unless they show some numbers.
That means Last Light sold 2 million + in 1.4 years.
Last Light Redux 2 to 5 million, and a lot of us got that game free or heavily discounted because we owned the original.
Exodus sits at 200000 to 500000 on Steam, I would argue probably 500000 to 1 million bought via Epic.
But still is a dumb argument to make. Hurr Durr game makes more money than
previous less advertised, less popular game 6 years apart.
Well no Duh! It was with the Redux release and because Last Light was so
amazing looking on release and word of mouth that people began to notice
the franchise.
It’s pretty obvious Exodus was going to make more money than Last Light. And they can’t compare to Redux cus as I said so many got the game free or heavily discounted.
Also dont comparing to original Metro release, they could say they sold 5x more which sounds more “impressive”.
Utter lies and propaganda.
Let’s not forget that Metro Last Light came out right after THQ filed for bankruptcy and the IP was up for auction. Everyone assumed the game was garbage and there was barely any funds available for marketing. It’s a miracle it sold as well as it did.
And most important of all, PC gaming has grown immensely since 2013.
This whole statement is stupid at best. Epic just keeps on showing not to have consumers interests at heart. WTF happened to you, Sweeney.
How very dare you cite inconvenient facts that don’t fully support the narrative being pushed by a PR agent!
Last Light become an icon.
Enjoyed it from start to finish, Truly was a great game!
Enjoyed Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light from start to finish several times. Truly excellent games!
Suffered Metro Exodus and was so utterly bored with it that I’ve moved on to other games and might not ever bother returning to it. Truly mediocre game!
I wouldn’t say excellent but i agree overall.
But but….ANNA is calling you now……
Game on. Go ahead and console her.? ?
…with my cold dead hands I will!
This is such a bull** comparison. They should’ve released on both platforms and then compared the sales from the Epic store vs the Steam store
I wonder how much more it would of sold if it had sold on steam…
Nobody nows, but this is the kind of news that EPIC loves, why to guess? we just SOLD A LOT GUYS!! Not even take into account that Last Light isnt exactly the most popular Metro.
sh**ty store
Didn’t all the people who bought Steam copies received Epic keys?
On the physical copies, yes.
I’m sure the digital steam buyers also got Epic keys.
Pre-orderers’ Steam keys were honoured before the Epic announcement, so no.
Nope, I play it on Steam they didn’t give me an Epic key.
Well the physical copies were actually that, KEYS!! What a scam.
This is a complete and utter BS PR statement. I highly doubt Metro Exodus on EGS has sold 2.5x times Metro Exodus Steam Pre-Orders let alone 2.5x Metro Last Light (Original) and/or Metro Last Light Redux.
Metro Last Light (Original) – 2 million+ on Steam, Delisted when Metro Last Light Redux came out
Metro Last Light Redux – 2-5 million on Steam
Metro Exodus (Pre-Orders) – 200,000-500,000 on Steam
I highly doubt Metro Exodus has sold 5-12.5 million on the EGS
One thing John has is he instabuy whatever devs says, Blizzard, Activision, EA, and many others are pretty now by the BS PR as you say and still without any other source John states whatever they say as the unique and only truth.
We have a saying in my country, “no butcher is going to say that his meat is bad”.
Arent those rough total sale figures you mention? Thats not what this article is about.
Yeah the article mention “on release” we are aware of that. Sadly we dont know how much Last Light sold on release or even how much Redux sold, because both numbers became mixed once Redux came out.
As we dont know that, Im pretty sure John doesnt too, so we are in the wild, we dont know if this is real or as Faster says just BS PR.
But we do know that Faster tries to disprove the news item, by comparing different things, total sales versus initial sales. That is simply not correct. The fact that we don’t and can’t know the initial Steam sales of Metro Last Light anymore, does not mean we can use lifetime sales instead, and still reach a valid point.
But is what we have. John did the same, one source coming from the directly benefited and it is the “only truth”. Faster isnt the journalist here.
If we do not have the correct number (initial sales), then we have nothing.
I too wish we did, but we don’t, and we can’t replace it with something completely different (lifetime sales), because we have it, and pretend we proved the publisher lied. And then call DSO out for not using this amazing and obvious proof to call the publishers liars.
“These guys lied based on the fact I don’t believe them” is not how journalism works.
You right there, as readers we have to guess, something John didnt, it just was… “The game sold much more on EPIC that on MLL did on Steam so it seems PC gamers are cool with Epic store, what is my source? DEEP SILVER, the same guys that developed the game.” Im been reading DSOG in five years, is the first time I see John so inclined to accept what a Dev said so blindly.
Also as someone said around here, Metro franchise wasnt that popular then…
Agreed, Ill bet you now that Metro Exodus sold more copies on Torrent then they sold on EPICS store
Of course, I’m pretty sure the CPY-STORE was more popular on PC than Epic
theyre taking about launch sales not overall sales throughout many years..
Exactly what I was thinking.
Deep Silver knows how PC Gamers feel about the game and the choice to choose the Epic Store first so they try to curry favor with PC Gamers by announcing these trumped up numbers, but forget that I’m waiting. A person would have to be a damned fool to involve themselves with that store. You give Epic your credit card number and you’ve effectively situated yourself firmly inside a black hole..
Another thing to think about, Why not to compare to original Metro 2033 initial sales, the first one released on 2010, when Steam was much less popular. There is a lot to cut from this story, so sad it seems DSOG dont wanna take that approach.
DSOG has nothing to do with it. This is the same trash story PCG ran.
DSOG will be the next wccftech. lol
Is it though, how many Fortnite players never even heard of Steam? Also how many Fortnite players are there, like 40 million or something?
So if it there is say 40 million users on the Epic store just from the Fortnite customer base alone 1% would = 400,000. So if only 1% bought Metro Exodus that is a lot of sales if you don’t even consider those that don’t care what launcher it is and bought the game regardless. Now take what 90 million Steam users, what percentage of that 90 million jumped ship and bought Metro Exodus? let’s go with 2% that would = 1.8 million. Also what percent bought it who are not Steam customers and are from Origin, GOG, Uplay, etc?
* Btw 1% and 2% is really low and that would mean Metro Exodus = garbage it has to be way higher than that. *
I believe it, if you take my 1% and 2% example and the other unknown % and raise all those percentages they could easily hit those numbers.
I don’t know it seems legit if you do the math and I have those numbers semi accurate.
“how many Fortnite players never even heard of Steam?”
I bet the majority of those Fortnite PC players first searched Steam for Fortnite then realized its not on Steam and then found out its only on the Epic Games Launcher, which I bet they did not even know was a thing.
Hmm I really wonder, you really think all little kids know Steam over Google? My body’s kids was only introduced to Steam since he is a PC gamer but his kid knew how to use Google over everything else.
If you type “fortnite buy” you get the Epic store URL not Steam. I seriously doubt none Steam users and kids are entering the URL to Steam over simply typing: fortnite buy in Google. Like wise if they are watching their favorite Twitch or YouTuber stream they already know it is on the Epic store cause they see the launcher every day used by their Streamer.
I really like to know now, obviously our generation and current PC gamers would do the Steam search but none users I bet money go to Google 1st. Who knows.
EXACTLY!
Looks like a total BS PR stunt! It seems like EG is really starting to play dirty with this whole online store business!
Just look at that image in the article with huge 2.5 numbers. If you can’t smell BS PR, your nose is stuffed.
You guys are fighting against the fingers that press down on you, but you should look a little further up, at the head. Tencent. This is typical cheap communist chinese mentality to aggressively infiltrate the market and then bring a one party mentality to the pc gaming market.
I will respect and cheer for the chinese people when they get rid of that hungry wolf that climbed on their backs.
AND, the marketing budget surrounding this game has been wayyyy higher on Exodus!!!
Lol, you guys were so sure before reality hit you. Most PC gamers are not steam fanboys.
“In other words, and despite some gamers claiming to boycott this
particular release, it appears that this exclusivity deal paid off. Of
course we don’t know the sales that Metro Exodus would have on Steam,
however it’s good knowing that the game did well on the PC platform”
John as a journalist you should take any info coming from devs directly with a grain of salt. You give them too much credit, or are you fond of what EPIC is doing with this exclusive b/11sh1t?
Also as I remember Last Light launch was a mess and Steam wasnt that popular back in 2013.
I cant believe you are not taking those things into account.
For example, could Metro would sell more in nowadays Steam and not Steam 2013?
Edit: Cant find this image anywhere, not on Epic Games, Deep Silver or Metro Exodus twitter!! This is indeed great news for them, why is not being announced on the social media?
Where on earth did you get the idea that Steam wasn’t as popular 6 years ago?
Sure, the user base grew, but Valve’s own reports show that’s mostly due to the influx of Chinese users who spend their time on free and freemium online games, Europe and the Americas were more or less at where they are now, and they are the ones interested in games like Metro.
And if anything, as far as reputation goes, it enjoyed its golden age, long before it opened the floodgates on every sh**ty asset flip, and before “grey market” key sellers and endless game bundles made Steam sales feel a lot less special.
Very disappointed with John’s editorial comment on this one. I’ll often defend him from some of the cheap shots some take at him but not this time.
A bit less time spent trawling the Nexus for Resident Evil 2 Remake nude mods and more time spent on writing quality analysis is seemingly in order!
You guys swing from love to hate in seconds. First Sweeney now John. This is more proof that you don’t know the people you believe think like you.
Utter nonsense
“previous game”
last light or last light redux? The sale differences is insane.
Whatever the case may be its clear that they are not going bankrupt due to low sales.
One thing is to say they sold 2.5x more than other, and to say they sold what they expected to sell.
Here is a new Doom Eternal video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPp0vZgN-F0
DAMN, it looks like they made a gigantic challenging nonlinear map pack filled with platforming puzzles and hazards to go through. They double down on being hardcore as heck.
I think there are some new enemies as well, imo.
best fps ever!
“majority of PC gamers are fine with the Epic Games Store”. What kind of data measurement you used to get to that conclusion? It seems your readers arent fine with this. I came here running away from PC Gamer because this, those guys made claims like that every time, they think they represent the “majority”.
Apparently by “PC gamers” he meant “Fortnite players”
proud owner of Metro: Exodus on Steam, I still can’t find a reason to install the Epic Store, and I don’t see one coming.
what exactly is there exactly to be proud of?!
They probably do.
“Still, it appears that the majority of PC gamers are fine with the Epic Games Store and this may explain why more developers and publishers have signed new exclusivity deals for their upcoming games.”
Low IQ person detected or something else fishy going on. Console gamers who don’t play on PC are the only ones fine with the Epic Games Store.
Im really surprised for this statement, it seems John is losing his “mojo”.
Or maybe Epic Games’ check cleared. We know other PC Gaming focused websites are compromised why not DSOGaming.
That would be really sad. I thought all the boot licking money were going to PC Gamer.
It’s a BS statement. It’s like when Ubisoft announced that the Epic Store had a record in pre-orders for The Division 2 and in the same press release said that most of the pre-orders were on the Ubi Store.
Exactly, why would anyone in their right mind buy it on Epics store when you can get it on the UBI store front? because all it does it redirect you to UBI client to launch the game in the first place.
Thank god businesses never lie for positive public image. Imagine if businesses could give misleading numbers and statements, to influence people’s opinions of their performance.
Gives me the same impression when I see garbage games that boast “10 MILLION PLAYERS!”, as though making disposable, free accounts, count as active players. Yes, I’m looking at you, SquareEnix & FF XIV.
tl;dr Bulls**t.
8 out of 10 games ‘journalists’ wouldn’t understand that!
You mean politicians could be paying survey companies for faking numbers to show them as popular among people? OMG, what kind of world we live where we cant trust survey companies?
You would believe them if they said it flopped but if it sold well?
Yeah it sold well because it was the MOST anticipated game in the series and marketed very well.
No shit sherlock it’s gonna sell well, would have sold EVEN MORE on Steam.
It’s the worst game and the worst port
I still don’t understand why this mediocrity if a game is praised for.
It went from Russian Half Life/Linear S.T.A.L.K.E.R to Russian Call of Duy to Russian generic Open World
I’m ready to boycott ANYTHING coming out on that platform, and i mean ANYTHING, even DOOM eternal, and i hope Atomic Heart doesn’t pull the same stunt as i already preordered it. And i won’t hesitate even a split second to cancel the preorder.
What if the unthinkable happens: ‘cyberpunk an epic store exclusive’ ?
Poland tickets already in my hands
It will not.Polish people not that stupid.
Then it’ll be CD Projekt Rekt.
doom IS DOOM best fps ever wil buy no matter whereit is is is my favorite fps series!
I’m sorry i don’t care, i won’t give them my money if they do something like this.
Terrible article. Eating all the PR BS. You can do better.
That’s the WEIRDEST marketing spin I have seen in awhile. Who are they targeting with this?
Devs who refused migrate to Epic store.
Shill media.
But how well would it have sold on Steam? We will never know, this is propaganda, Metro Exodus would have sold better regardless.
Metro exodus had much more hype and publicity than the previous metro combined, if it was on steam it would had sold 5-10 times more
steamkids mad. epic boi`z where you at!
“the majority of PC gamers are fine with the…”
CPY version.
Have you tried the CPY version? Does it come with the latest update/patch included?
Yes. Not yet.
played it with the 1.00 version
worked flawlessly minus a small inconvenience glitch in the second chapter
had to restart the level but other than that? a pretty bug-free experience (played on ranger hardcore)
Glitch? In Volga or in Moscow?
in the Desert, with the sniper’s tower
the boat didn’t materialized if you went and done side objective beforehand
that’s why on when you get the mission to go to Giul’s rescue
you go there without any detours
Good for them that the game sold well.But such sales cannot be compared. Because gaming world was different in 2013, the game setting was different, Steam was different, etc.
This is the same as the : Metro Last Light sold better than 2033! and both games were released on Steam.
Anyway tbh the game is a letdown compared to the previous titles.
Yeah it was, those open areas + slow paced gameplay was a terrible design choice, Graphics,Story,Character and Atmosphere were awesome but it was painfully slow, it’s like they made another game with different design then they decide to go openworld (ish) without changing the design.
That’s a real shame I didn’t capture all the morons telling me it wasn’t going to work. What? Lower costs for the developers/publishers can bring on a better advertising campaign? Shocker. Half of these idiots are completely unaware of Fortnite so the Epic store had no end of people to advertise to. https://media3.giphy.com/media/xT9IgFlWsUMDFzVIu4/giphy.gif
Call me overly cynical but it wouldn’t entirely surprise me if the real reason for them not revealing sales numbers is due to Tencent wanting to maintain secrecy so to help them ‘cook the books’ aka dodge paying the right amount of business tax to governments in the West.
What a inane, pointless and retarded comparison.
couldn’t put it better the game is number 8 in uk charts in its second week
THIS IS A LIE like everything that comes out of tim swine’s mouth
Really? Who would have thought? LOL!
If was on steam this time would have sold 4 times more.
Probably includes those Steam pre-orders. Last Light was niche game anyways while Exodus is mass market
I don’t have an issue with the store itself, I like the idea of devs getting a bigger cut. I’m just to GD lazy to install 6 different store apps in order to play a single GD game. Almost miss the days when steam was the only kid on the block.
PS: There is a free PC app that will allow you log into just about every major game store available. But I’m not sure I trust it yet.
Our separate ways we shall go then… I dont’t trust a company that buys others over and grows that fast. It’s those types of companies that have microtransactions and share-holder meetings on game direction
Yeah it sold well because it was the MOST anticipated game in the series and marketed very well.
No sh*t sherlock it’s gonna sell well, would have sold EVEN MORE on Steam.
a blatant lie. a couple days after metro’s launch, steamdb estimated 100k copies sold on steam and now it shows 200k-500k which means it must have sold like 500k at minimum on epic’s store. this is a low iq propaganda. concurrent players don’t add up and in fact nothing adds up.
lol, no it hasn’t. This is the last straw. First Exodus, then Phoenix Point, then Outer Worlds, on top of having to deal with constant lying and shilling and 25 EGS articles a day. Now Tim Sweeney is playing the Kaz Hirai sonypony game intentionally being a child in PR statements in order to appeal to the immature, alt-alt-PCgamer losers who have nothing better to do than whine about Steam because they’re too worthless of a waste of carbon to use Steam’s robust store filtering features, saying “We don’t want crappy games on EGS.”
Son Unreal 1 was a crappy game when it came out and no one wanted it or Unreal 2, and that damn well applies to Fortnite.
Literally the only reason Unreal continued to exist is because of team fortress.
I quit. I’m done.
Umm, wasn’t Team Fortress made by Valve? Maybe you meant Unreal Tournament. And The Epi? Games of the last 15 years has been kept afloat mostly due to Gears Of War franchise.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/211c703d81b7bf111e48b65177e55094c79ff60bd4fb878905169bc630150cc0.gif
Riveting tale
We have the sh**ty bethesda store and the sh**ty Epic store now. We already had the outdated Ubisoft launcher and low featured Origin store. We didn’t need more sh**ty platforms. Epic was suppose to actually compete with steam not cheat their way to the top.
GamingBolt and TechReport report the number as 2.5 times what Last Light sold on launch. There’s a huge difference between that and what this article reports so which one is it?
I bought it on Steam. Friends however when with the CPY release. I don’t know anyone that purchased it via the Epic store.
The game s**t
The end
I cant believe the shiyet i read. This and the exclusivity is just beyond clinically retarded. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b856208812b00462785e3d5c9b28c967c0b5ab210201dc2c253b0343f971e51.jpg
This is TOTAL BIASED SHET… the marketing budget surrounding this game has been more than quadrupled, but let’s not talk about it!
Last Light released when, 2013? Market was much smaller back then and apparently it did not sell well for the time either.