- Open Steam and click on Steam at top-left Settings Cloud uncheck “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization”. This will stop your Metro Exodus saves from getting corrupt. Players are reporting that Metro Exodus is crashing randomly while playing and sometimes crashes while performing specific actions. This is due to DirectX 12.
- EU STEAM CD KEY: Requires an EUROPEAN IP address or you must activate it with a VPN (Virtual Private Network) in order to play Metro Exodus. Might have languages restrictions or language packs. Read the description on the store game page to know if the EU IP is only needed for activation or for playing also (maybe on EU Servers).
In the Metro Exodus Arachnophobe Edition, we have put little party hats on all those nasty arachnids in-game, utilising the full power of the 4A Engine to show off every non-threatening detail to create a much happier environment.
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Post-apocalyptic shooter Metro Exodus is already selling well on Steam, despite users of the marketplace having to wait a full year for its release.
During a webcast around Embracer's most recent financial results, CEO Lars Wingefors offered more insight into key releases from the Group's various games businesses, including Metro publisher Deep Silver.
Discussing the Steam release of Metro Exodus, Wingefors said he was 'happy to see it's been performing well,' having sold approximately 200,000 copies in its first few days.
He also noted that the biggest market for the Steam version had been 'one big Asian country,' although did not specify which one.
Metro Exodus was the first major title to receive backlash for launching as a timed exclusive on the Epic Games Store. This became a familiar reaction to such agreements last year, affecting titles ranging from AAA shooter Borderlands 3 to indie title Ooblets.
When Metro's exclusivity was first announced, Valve said the removal from Steam was 'unfair to customers' -- although later said it has kept quiet on the subject of Epic exclusives given the controversy that followed.
Despite the anger expressed by players, Metro Exodus performed well on the Epic Games Store, selling 2.5 more copies than the previous title managed on Steam during its own launch window.
When speaking to GamesIndustry.biz last year, Klemens Kundratitz -- CEO of Deep Silver parent Koch Media -- expressed no regrets over the deal with Epic and suggested the publisher may seek similar agreements in future.
Elsewhere in the Embracer webcast, Wingefors touched on another major Deep Silver release: the long-awaited Shenmue III.
While he did not specify sales figures, his comments suggest it was quite the massive seller some people might expect. But this makes it no less important a release for the Group, he said.
'I was happy to see the core fans of Shenmue was happy, but it was also clear Shenmue III is not a AAA mass market product,' he said. 'It's a product for the fans, and I'm happy that we pleased them.'
Embracer had plenty to shout about in its latest financials. In addition to revenue growth, it revealed it had acquired Saber Interactive, while Koch Media's acquisition of Voxler (plus some recent openings) brought the group up to 26 development studios.
Update (Feb. 7, 2020): A Steam version of Metro Exodus is now due for release on Feb. 15, precisely one year after it appeared as one of the first big-name exclusives on the Epic Games Store. Otherhigh-profilegames launched exclusively on the Epic Games Store last year seem likely to follow suit throughout 2020.
Original Story (Jan. 28, 2019):
Epic Games and Deep Silver announced today that the PC version of Metro Exodus will be downloadable exclusively through Epic's recently launched Game Store starting February 15.
Deep Silver CEO Klemens Kundratitz specifically cited 'Epic’s generous revenue terms' in his reveal, which gives the game maker 88 percent of all revenue (compared to the industry-standard 70 percent on most other PC storefronts). That revenue-sharing system is 'a game changer that will allow publishers to invest more into content creation, or pass on savings to the players,' Kundratitz said. '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.'As of this writing Monday morning, Metro Exodus is still listed on Steam and available for preorder on the service, as it has been since August. The Steam version is listed for $60, though, $10 more than the Deep Silver says the game will sell for on Epic's storefront. Deep Silver says it will honor any players who pre-ordered the game from outside the Epic Games Store 'will receive their game as expected.'
Advertisement [Update: The Metro Exodus Steam page now notes that the game will be removed from Steam 'later today... due to a publisher decision to make the game exclusive to another PC store. The developer and publisher have assured us that all prior sales of the game on Steam will be fulfilled on Steam, and Steam owners will be able to access the game and any future updates or DLC through Steam.'
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'We think the decision to remove the game is unfair to Steam customers,' the statement continues. 'Especially after a long pre-sale period. We apologize to Steam customers that were expecting it to be available for sale through the February 15th release date, but we were only recently informed of the decision and given limited time to let everyone know.']
Deep Silver's move is the latest blow to Steam's de facto position as the predominant distribution platform for PC games. Previous Metro games have been downloaded by millions of players on Steam, according to estimates from Steam Spy's tracking algorithm.
Earlier this month, Ubisoft's ![Metro Exodus Steam Metro Exodus Steam](/uploads/1/1/3/6/113657763/176376358.jpg)
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Just before Epic announced its store, Valve changed its own revenue-sharing terms to be more generous to games that generate at least $10 million in revenue. But Valve's revenue sharing still tops out at 80 percent for sales past $50 million, which is less generous than Epic's baseline 88 percent share on all sales.
Discord announced last month that it would begin offering developers on its Discord Store platform 90 percent of all revenue from listed games.