Saber Interactive has announced that its exclusivity deal with Epic Games for releasing the game first on the Epic Store has allowed it drop the game’s price. As such, the game is now priced at $34.99 instead of $39.99, and contrary to Metro Exodus, this price drop is universal.
As Saber Interactive’s CEO, Matthew Karch, said in a statement:
“We chose the Epic Games store because we believe it’s the best deal for players and developers.
First of all, building games is costly, and so to receive 88% instead of 70% means we can invest more into making World War Z.
Second, we’re passing along much of the savings to you as gamers. The price of World War Z on the Epic Games store is being dropped to $34.99 starting now and continuing through our April 16 launch and beyond. Any players who have already pre-purchased the game for $39.99 will get the $5 refunded back to them. We are thrilled to be able to share the developer-friendly benefits of the Epic Games store with you all, and can’t wait for you to play our game.
For more background, read our opinion piece on the store.”
As we all know, Metro Exodus was the first big triple-A game that came out first on Epic’s Digital Store. Unfortunately, though, Deep Silver has not released yet any sales figures for this new Metro game.
In our opinion, it will be interesting to see whether both World War Z and Metro Exodus sell well on the PC. We know that some gamers boycotted them due to their Epic Store exclusivity, however – and given that developers/publishers receive 88% instead of 70% – we are wondering whether this decision has actually paid off.
World War Z releases on the PC on April 16th!
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I was already thinking of buying this game with 3 other friends but now, out of principle of what i’ve just read, i’ll probably be getting this. It’s a good move they’ve made and i hope it’ll reflect on sales. I’d prefer the new price on steam but heh.
The term of exclusive in pc gaming is always a big MEH….
There’s no exclusive if you sail the high seas matey.
Not everyone wants to hurt developers …
I do, those that want to hurt us.
The problem is more often the publishers than the developers…
I just want to hurt scummy stupid devs and pubs, very bad.
“Come to us, we are offering you a higher cut!”
“Yay, lets go and then reduce the price, while having a substantial smaller customer base.”
Their descision making process seems to be a little bit wacked …
Its just a matter of time when all AAA game publishers will have their own launchers and steam will live off indie games.
Steams userbase is huge. That helps.
There will always be AAA Publishers who will release their games in as many places as possible.
35 euro here. 1:1 conversion meaning the price is higher in Europe again.
I don’t have euro as currency.
Europe getting the short end of the stick as always.
Do you realize that US prices don’t include tax?
So you know what to do… f*** Epic trash store…
Here in the Netherlands all games are actually more expensive on Epic Stiore then Steam.
Lol then, you know what to do
lol do us a favor and drop it to 5.99$ for those people tthat wants to buy it but i have my way https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/90175316cba86209e4b8121e2e6d22a2596b416064b6be767632a8378d3b9a49.jpg
its a multiplayer game, no point pirating it
I pretty sure there is single-player mode with bots similarly to Left 4 Dead
doesnt matter MP or not i would rather pirate it than buy the game off epic store and that’s saying a lot becuase it’s showing them that i would rather go out of my way to pirate a MP game has no use to me than buy their game off the EPIC store
Oh boy you sure are naive.
When Metro Exodus was on Steam if I wanted to buy a key for it it was 39,84€ on Instant Gaming, since the game went into Epic Store it went up for 44€ or so and now the game is 49,90€ since the price at Epic Store is 60€ in Europe.
I made my choice and I’ll be waiting for Steam release for Metro, was also looking forward to this game but not too much to be honest so another one that will get a pass from me this year.
I can buy for around 40/45€ five games that I still have to play (Prey 7€, Dishonored 2 8€, GTA V 11€, Wolfenstein 2 12€ and probably Mass Effect: Andromeda for 7€). Three are for Steam and GTA V for Rockstar launcher and ME: Andromeda for Origin which I’m used to.
Actually I got Resident Evil 2 Remake and I’m having fun on my 2nd play-through now with Claire (not with the naked mod that John loves, lol) and I think it was the right choice. I almost forgot about Metro to be honest and I’m quite sure that World War Z’s zombies won’t be missed as well.
well i love epic store because how low the prices are metro exodus cost 19.99$ this game cost 23.99 $
Then it mean that you are living in a third world country.
So just like The Division 2 where way more people pre-ordered the game on Uplay than on Epic, no one is buying WWZ on the Epic platform so they have to find a way to convince people that the store is the best thing ever.
I call this BS.
Kudos mate!
Only took 5 days…
100K well spent eh?
They can shove their Epic failure store deep where I think….
How is it the best deal for me, the player, if I still have to pay more than if it were on Steam?
But you get a far worse launcher with anti-consumers rampant on it. Good deal, I’d say.
Weak sauce PR stunt intended to deflect media attention away from poor sales numbers.
Master Gaben should consider making money from game developing not just selling them!
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Master Gaben has enough money to last the Half-Life of Bismuth-209.
you give this fat shet too much credit, he’s the reason that most devs have been steadily increasing their prices since 2014-15. valve isn’t going to lower their cut so devs increase their prices.
World War Z costs $23.99 for me on the Epic Games Store. Still $23.99 too much.
me too metro 19.99$
You guys are living in a 3rd world country
I like the term Developing Country better.
Agree. Anyway, the human race is a cancer no matter the country…
…there’s like 3 or 4 country that are really evolved…Sweden, Finland, Norway. Period.
no i live in NYC and i wouldnt touch that garbage store even if they gave me the 23$ to buy the game
Same for me! This Epic fail store is not even installed on my computer… I was just saying that they have better prices in some developing countries apparently….
Oh yeah, I always forget about you “psshh you must be poor” kiddos who live in debt on that baller credit and come out from under the wood because people don’t want to buy something. I remember we were also notified of being from from a 3rd world country due to being ever so slightly intelligent enough to realize we needed to avoid that RTX scam too.
Witty comment though. Made me lol.
Hmmm.. They have better prices in some developing countries apparently. It was not to offense or anything like this… I was just saying the truth…
yep
That moment when you know sales are utter sh** and you desperate
Next up on DSOG : Metro Exodus sales below expectations.
Wondering if the internet will ever be positive. God forbid devs finally want to reduce the price to sell more units? Haven’t seen this done in quite some time. Kudos to the devs. Even if the game sucks, it doesn’t stop other devs from knowing such and still charging full price. What an industry to have to work in. Gamers cry about EVERYTHING
One example: I can’t buy a game using my local currency, like on steam. I have to pay in dollars, and that make the game more expensive on Epic Store. So, yeah, some people are crying with a reason.
The margin $$ they are taking is less on Epic fail store than Steam, but if the price is lower too = less money in dev pockets.. I think that all in all, it is not THAT good for them…
Wouldn’t get it from the Epic store if it was free.
What lowers the price even more is not buying it.
and pirating it.
propaganda, now i’m definitely going to pirate this game.
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Even though I already have Metro Exodus on Steam I am still going to download it and Seed it till February 15th, 2020
“Pass on much of the savings onto the consumer”
>Shaves $5 off
>Much of the savings
Welp, another dev to add to my “do not support” list. See you never devs.
based epic games store
“what we have done? no one have buy our game! quick, drop the price untill steam release! D:”
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“Hey guys, we’re releasing this $20 game and thanks to EGS, we’re able to bring it to you for the recently reduced price of $34.99!”
I would actually respect them if they told the truth why they did it. But the whole “best for players” bs just makes me take my money elsewhere
It sometimes appears as though the only remaining people still dumb enough to fall for such BS are games journalists. Of course the reality is that even dumb games journalists know it’s BS but they choose to be complicit in the lie because their jobs depend on dancing to the tune of advertising dollars.
Well time to pirate I think.
Epic is desperately trying to lure publishers to sue their store. But hey, if the store was actually half-decent, and not a pre-historic barebone POC pile of garbage, it would’ve been ok!