Imagine if the same wholesale logic applied in current online game sales. A smaller retailer markup means that the store can offer lower prices to attract more customers (yes, there are often confounding factors involving bulk orders and MSRP enforcement, but indulge me). There, retailers usually end up paying a standard wholesale price to the manufacturer, then marking up that price to cover their costs. That's not how pricing often works in the world of traditional consumer goods.
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As of this writing, the rest of the limited selection of games available on both the Epic Games Store and Steam all list the same developer-set price on both platforms (save those that Epic temporarily offers for free on a rotating basis).
Somewhat more surprising is the fact that Metro Exodus is the first game to effectively pass on the savings from Epic's favorable revenue-sharing terms to the consumer. The 88 percent revenue share Epic offers on a $50 sale ($44) is more lucrative than the 70 percent revenue share Valve offers on a $60 sale ($42 though that number goes up a bit after $10 million in sales). If you preorder the game today on the Epic Games Store or buy it there after its February 15 launch, you'll pay just $50.Īnd yet despite that price reduction, Deep Silver will be actually make more money per sale from the Epic Games Store than it did from Steam. If you pre-ordered Metro Exodus though Steam before yesterday, you paid $60 (and will still receive that preorder on Steam). But for consumers, it was perhaps more notable for the impact it had on the game's pricing.
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Further Reading Metro Exodus comes to Steam after a year of Epic Games Store exclusivity Yesterday's news that Deep Silver's Metro Exodus is moving from Steam to Epic's Games Store was notable for what it says about Valve's position running PC gaming's dominant online storefront.
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