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This time deep silver is the target and their Metro games.

Epic is taking a crap ton of heat over this.

For those of you more familiar with metric, that converts to 907.185 crapkilograms.

The good thing is that those who preordered the game will have it, but it will be very rare for them to obtain a game that will not even appear in the Steam store.

Most seem to have cancelled their preorder that I have read.

Heh, I remember when this was done against DOTA 2, I think in response to Marc Laidlaw releasing "Epistle 3", and people getting angry about Half-Life 3 not existing and believing time spent on making DOTA 2 to be at fault (or something like that).

The times I've seen this happen had a very negative impact in some shape or form. Especially when it attracts the attention of bloggers and well known gaming websites.

Interesting, thanks Kelefane.

What else did you expect?

Can you imagine if The Witcher 3 or Cyberpunk 2077 were exclusive to GOG? The same thing would happen here.

You're welcome.

Worse news in the world than Steam getting negs,maybe some a better hobby.

Sure, it would. That is, If they made it available as a preorder for months, only to pull it from sale at the last moment.

I'm certain this isn't a surprise to Deep Silver. They considered the possible repercussions, and decided that releasing as an exclusive on Epic is still better for business.

It's not fair the way it's happening, but there are so many games on STEAM that I would want to buy on GOG, that I just can't feel any sympathy for the STEAM crowd. If anything, the fact that there was even a disapproving response from Valve, makes me happy. Maybe moves like these will force Valve to get off their asses, and actually fight to get games on their platform.

Yeah, but how does pulling it affect those who pre-ordered it, if they still get the game when it's released?

Are updates guaranteed? Deep Silver says yes, but can you trust them after this stunt?

Plus, it's a dick move in general and Steam users will always go for review bombs in those cases (see when games were discovered to have Redshell or when Skyrim/Fallout 4 introduced paid mods).