/v/ - Video Games

THQ proves themselves as still trustworthy/good

Deep Silver proves themselves as expected kikes

Stick to your news thread glaner globbeler

Put Metro Exodus in the subject line you piece of shit. Don't make me read half an article to figure out what the fuck you're talking about

Old news though.

>>16080069

>>>/cuckchan/

>>16080080

>Old

>Just submitted

This choice will bite them in the ass.

If they made the game cheaper on Epic Games and keep it at $60 on Steam there wouldn't have been a controversy.

>>16080289

https://archive.fo/1K15n

Yes, this is old information.

>>16080313

But then Epic wouldn't have bribed paid them for exclusivity.

Make the Metro fans cry like Mighty No. 9 backers on release day - Deep Silver

>>16080059

At first, they try to ignore the issue and only after a week of outcry do they try and pass the blame.

>>16080376

The only ones crying here are going to be Deep Silver and 4A when they see how empty their wallets are.

>>16080378

THQ didn't even wait 24 hours to explain the decision was Koch's. OP's website is just spectacularly late to the party.

>>16080059

>fuck up hard enough that you go bankrupt

>get bought

>do the exact same thing again

Quality publsher, fuck them, I don't know why THQ Nordic even let them do as they please because they obviously can't do anything right.

>>16080381

Depends on how much they were paid by Epic

>>16080429

Dealing with China in any capacity bankrupts you in the long run.

They already apologized for that one employees remark but I don't think it'll help them. I could understand moving to epic store for your next game or announcing it ahead of time but that was not what they did. They made the switcheroo less than a month before release and had a long time of steam preorders before they did what they did. It was a stupid business mistake that will bite them in the ass. That also doesn't include the fact that they are using denuvo which will net them less buyers on PC on an even smaller market of Epic store. They made a comprimise to honor the existing steam preorders but having to wait 1 year for exclusivity deal for steam will not work in favor of Epic. People primarily on steam can wait 1 year with plenty of backlogs. I don't think I've heard of a 1 year exclusivity deal ever work, even on consoles.

>>16080435

Yeah bugmen will always rob you blind when you are not looking. Theft of tech, theft of content, and just stacking the odds against you in favor of their state run companies. People need to stop feeding china, so they can finally make like all communists and starve to death.

>>16080059

Publishers don't deserve money at all, they should all be out of work and on the streets.

>>16082249

Publishers should function as loan providers. They shouldn't exercise ownership over a game unless the developers fail to meet deadlines/make payments. Publishers certainly shouldn't control entire IPs.

>>16082274

>Bankrolling and financing

>A publishers job

No, a publisher is supposed to slap their sticker on a product that meets their standards and advertise it. Anything else is inappropriate

>>16080068

I still remember getting the Deep Silver Humble Bundle and not ever playing some of the games because they were offered only on the Origin store.

>>16082039

>cheaper production

How is putting a game on a store a production cost your mongoloid

>>16082274

>They shouldn't exercise ownership over a game unless the developers fail to meet deadlines/make payments.

considering the unrealistic development times publishers demand this is a recipe for disaster.

>>16082361

We aren't talking about EA here are we?

>>16082393

that's not how you spell Activision.

What really get's me about this entire controversy is how they tried to spin it as a good thing for the consumer.

“Epic’s generous revenue terms are a game changer that will allow publishers to invest more into content creation, or pass on savings to the players. By teaming up with Epic we will be able to invest more into the future of Metro and our ongoing partnership with series developer 4A Games, to the benefit of our Metro fans.”

It still cracks me up. Just say you want more cash, people will understand.

>>16082525

>Just say you want more cash, people will understand.

But money is the root of all evil, Anon, and seeking a greater amount of it should always be considered a despicable, hateful, selfish act that is the sole reason why the world is so corrupt.

You would not believe the amount of retards that believe this shit, AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN COMMUNISTS!!! One Anon encountered a coworker who claims to be a "Hard Right winger", but unironically believes that the idea of the "free market" is a creation of Communist methodology.

>>16082592

>Free market is communist

That's what you get when you start spinning jewish fuckery as marxism/communism instead of the capitalism gone wrong it actually is - right wingers that believe capitalism is also somehow communism.

back on topic

4a games has proven themselves time and time again as good developers

first with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl while working for GSC, then as 4A with Metro games, i have no doubt they will at least put a lot of effort into their latest titles

they did survive the original collapse of THQ by going to Deep Silver, and now Deep Silver is back under new THQ Nordic, so i understand their situation

>>16080403

It was obvious that they had to purge the entire management head of Deep Silver right when they bought them out. This should be the first thing to do when you buy out a company which nearly became bankrupt due to retarded decisions.

>>16080068

It was not someone from Deep Silver talking shit saying they would not release future games on PC though.

>>16082781

<then as 4A with Metro games

>Metro

>Good

Fuck, why can't 4A just self-publish?

>>16083316

because as shit as many publishers are, they upfront the money, with the only alternative being kikestarter - and we all know how that turns out when no one is holding a leash.

just let 4A deal with thq nordic from now on, they don't seem to be that stupid (yet).

Well, now even the creator of the Metro series is apologizing with a video. I guess they're not seeing the right numbers for epic pre-orders on PC as they would like and are trying to make a last ditch appeal. Even if you know that the publishers were the ones who made the call to switch so late before release, I don't think anything they say will change these facts: that Epic is still relatively new, not as trusted as steam (how little that is left right now) and as a platform, lacks even a less than a 3rd of what steam has, there is not a whole lot of people clamoring to add epic launcher for just one game. It might be the best game released that week and I don't think Epic can make up for the waning PC interest. They'll have to rely on consoles to make-up for it. Most people would rather wait the year or pay the extra $10 to play on steam.

>>16085417

The Epic store is also really terribly laid out. Go to the front page and it's just a bunch of inconsistent icons with price tags. No lists, no search bar, no tags, nothing. No joke launch day newgrounds had more features than this.

>>16085736

Minimalist design

Graphic designers can be the worst at times.

>>16085756

>not even mentioning that you can usually get shit cheaper on keysites, even legit ones, no one will pay full price for a year old game just because it happens to now show up on the stean store. any dev/publisher who thinks that will work needs a reality check.

People payed for dark souls remaster.

>expecting people to not be retarded

>>16086280

sure, you will always end up with a certain amount of mouthbreathers, it's a statistical inevitability. but no on but switchtards and faggots blindly sucking the LE HARD GAEM meme bought that shit, especially since most people already bought the original back then and finally get pissed of with after their d2 shenanigans and downgrades.

https://steamcharts.com/app/570940

http://www.vgchartz.com/game/220634/dark-souls-remastered/?region=All

as for metro, when it comes out in a year it has to compete with new games that come out at the time, unless deep silver wants to spend money again on marketing people will either have forgotten about it or simply don't care since it's a year old and not the new hot shit.