https://www.techpowerup.com/252159/alleged-metro-exodus-developer-threatens-to-boycott-pc-platform-for-sequels-over-steam-review-bombing
 
The whole Metro Exodus saga has been getting uglier as we get closer to launch date. We had reported earlier this very week how Metro Exodus had jumped over to the Epic Games Store for a timed exclusive through February 2020, with Valve and THQ Nordic putting out statements on this move. The move was clearly an unpopular one, and arguably for valid reasons too, but this then led to the mob turning against Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light by leaving an extreme number of negative reviews on the respective Steam store pages.
 
A user by the handle scynet on the Russian Gameinator forums claimed to be one of the developers on the Metro game franchise, and expressed disappointment, and even anger at the review bombing ongoing. Perhaps emotions took over, when he then effectively threatened that the Metro series would not come to the PC platform again, and be a console exclusive, should this behavior continue and also if PC gamers in turn decide to not buy Metro Exodus as a result of the move from Steam to the Epic Games Store. We will note here that (a) the identity of said person has not been confirmed to be an actual developer for the game, and (b) such decisions are usually in the publisher hands. Regardless, both parties are not showing their best here, and hopefully cooler heads will prevail soon.
 
Things certainly are heating up.

Par for the course lately with game devs. They don't make games for customers anymore and when they don't like the feedback they get, they attack the hand that feeds them instead of correcting their course to a more profitable answer. Compound that with divisive virtue signalling coming out of some dev houses and you've gotta wonder why these businesses have anyone invest into them. Rule #1 in business is that you are to make a product that addresses a need of the largest cross section of customers you can afford to accommodate at a reasonable price to best attract userbase. In modern game development, employees and management keep on putting ridiculous decisions in the way of that. Also, the real story isn't that they said that, is that the company probably hasn't done anything punitive to the developer that is speaking in their name through his employment credentials. It tells me that their HR department is a joke.

With Mr. Scarlet on this one, you can't bash a company for trying to maximize profits and stay on your own platform, especially in today's economically muffed up world. Hec I miss the good old days of disc installation and manually applying patches! once all that was done it was MY GAME! and I didn't have to have 5+ different gaming platforms just to play a bloody freaking game, and then have to wait as Steam, Origin , Uplay, GOG, Epic, ect, ect, has a program update, then have to wait as PUBG patches for the 5th time in a day Seriously though, I've been saying it for a while, PC gamers on general basis have gotten extremely entitled.

Really the publisher decides everything. Developers only get money from the publisher and the publisher decides if a game is worth continuing. We already saw Mass Effect effectively be cancelled as well as the Dues Ex series after failed game sales while they where popular.

joeymir
you double poster you <3

Fixed.