“I firmly believe that Deep Silver and Koch Media have carefully considered the advantages and disadvantages, opportunities and risks in their decision to go solely with Epic Games Store. “I believe it’s in the group’s, and ultimately the consumers’, best interest that business decisions are made close to the market and this is the group’s consistent business model.

“I fully support our sub-groups’ autonomy to run their respective businesses,” says THQ Nordic co-founder and CEO Lars Wingefors. This structure is similar to Activision Blizzard’s ownership of Activision Publishing and Blizzard Entertainment. THQ Nordic, headquartered in Sweden, owns three different sub-groups: Deep Silver ( Saints Row, Metro, Dead Island), THQ Nordic GmbH ( Darksiders, Titan Quest, Wreckfest), and Coffee Stain ( Goat Simulator). Today, the publisher took the step to clarify its organizational structure while affirming support for Deep Silver’s decision. We do not want to categorically exclude the possibility of timed exclusives for any of our games in the future, but speaking in the here and now, we definitely want to have the players choose the platform of their liking and make our portfolio available to as many outlets as possible.”īesides the strangeness of declining to comment and immediately proceeding to comment, THQ Nordic’s pair of tweets raised eyebrows for revealing what seems to be internal strife over the matter.

“They are a sister company of THQ Nordic (Vienna), which is the reason why we can and will not comment on this matter. “The decision to publish Metro Exodus as a timed Epic Store exclusive was made entirely on Koch Media’s side as Metro is their intellectual property,” the company posted on Twitter. It seems to have also been a curve ball for Deep Silver parent THQ Nordic, with two contradictory messages coming out of the publisher in the past day. Metro Exodus’ move from Steam to a one-year exclusivity agreement with Epic caught fans by surprise on Monday. Deep Silver parent THQ Nordic seemed surprised by the move, which has led to intense reaction among some core players.

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