Deep Silver community manager here! Q&A

Good! More time to make things right.

 

Agreed no DLC. I enjoy DLC when it doesn't keep something from the main story but instead it adds something extra. Metro just isn't the kind of game for DLC. I would like to see how the multiplayer will turn out if it comes out. I wouldn't mind a co-op multiplayer like Defend the cordon, Defend the caravan, Attack enemy station with a lot of customization like clothing, armor, weapons. Different things.

 

For a game like Metro, I strongly encourage no DLC (even if it's free) and no multiplayer. DLC would ruin the experience and entire purpose on Metro. But I would like to see it pushed back a few months to get time in for the game to be a true success, but in the form of the game itself, and also in the form of marketing. If it does come to a situation where the team is sitting there for months, it may be a good idea to add more platforms (Mac and Linux) if that is possible.

I know that free Steam key + DRM-free would never happen anywhere outside of true indie, but Professor Pew, if there's any way that we could explain to those higher up why it would be a good idea, even revenue-wise, to not include DRM, I'd love to give them my thoughts on it. The most basic form of it is that piracy WILL happen to ANY game, no matter what DRM you put on it. DRM is not possible to make crack-proof, and it rarely takes more than a day or two to crack the DRM. Pirates will pirate, and there's no stopping it. DRM will be cracked within a day or two, possibly the day of release, so you might as well include no DRM, so you can get more sales by DRM-haters and those who avoid things like Steam. You'd also get a lot of good press by being one of the first big non-indie games that are DRM-free, which would lead to a lot more sales. At the same time as these increased sales, you would be losing nothing to pirates, because they would break the DRM and pirate it even if it does have DRM.

So to recap, you could be a totally radical and hugely-loved for your head-of-the-time ideas by being DRM-free, and if the team is sitting there with nothing to do, adding more platforms would also increase your audience, and on top of that, go along with the ahead-of-the-time ideas that have made indie games so successful. Showing multi-platform support (which, of course, is only possible if the studio needs stuff to do while you are doing the marketing), and being DRM-free would make you get a huge boost in love from the press and gamers who hate DRM and Steam (trust me, there's a lot of those kinds of people out there).

Finally, look at indie games, and how their multi-platform and DRM-free ideas are making them so successful.

 

I only want is if it steamworks or at least key activate on steam only way i will keep my target preorder but cant wait till ti comes out when it ddoes.

 

Yes, if they don't include a Steam key, I'll have to, sadly, resort to buying it only on Steam.

 

What so you prefer £40 or $60 for an 8 hour campaign? There's value right there lol. It's a shame you can't rent PC games from Blockbusters because if it turns out to be a short campaign then like the majority of PC gamers i'll wait for the Steam sales before picking it up.

 

It's not only about the length of the game, it's also about the experience. A multiplayer won't add anything to the experience, but is only a wast of time (and probably nobody is going to play it)

 

If the multiplayer is done right then it won't be that bad. That's why 4A took everyone starting multiplayer back to single-player, that way they have a killer single-player. Metro multiplayer co-op could be fun if you have different modes like how I listed before. Defend the cordon, defend the caravan, attack enemy station, exterminate mutants in an area. You would be a Ranger.

 

evade the ghost! :lol:

 

I agree with Keavon about almost everything he wrote except for one thing: please, please, please don't force 4A Games to work on versions of the game for other platforms. Right now, with so little time before the release and not in gold stage yet, it would be best to let the devs concentrate on refining what is already there instead of adding new & potentially unsuccessful features.

Now is the time to finish everything and iron out the bugs, not start new things. As much as I'd love it if the folks playing Mac or Linux could get their hands on Last Light, this is simply not the time to make any steps in that direction and should only be considered after the game has gone gold on all three of the planned platforms (PC, PS3 and 360).

 

Also just saying that this forum should become to official forum of last light. The fans here are the most hardcore you can find. Everyone here had their money ready the second they heard Metro: L-.

 

I'd HATE if this became the offical forums. Imagine threads every 5 minutes comparing this to cod begging for mp even complaining how its a cod clone for having guns. See what I mean?

 

Well only people who enjoy a game join the games forums. Anyway we won't be seeing that shit since metro doesn't get 10 year old kids.

 

I was 10 when I first fell in love with metro 2033...
But on a side note Will the game be delayed for a long time if it is? Don't want it to be the next S.T.A.L.K.E.R..

 

I also agree with your disagreement with me. (Brain twister enough?)

I was only giving that idea as an option if the game were literally done, and already got a final gold master. If the team is sitting there for a few months before release, waiting for marketing to be done and the other preparations, they could do that. If not, which is the most likely state, it would be great if they could release an OSX and Linux port later.

 

Not many people game on Linux so it isn't worth the time and money to make a Linux version. There are people who game on Mac so that is worth the time but Linux isn't a good idea.

 

Thats why 2 million people on linux have downloaded steam..

 

i agree i have to cancel it then buy something else steam key but i think that he said on the steam forum that metro last light will stay steamworks. that they will keep that way

 

I was 13 when I played Metro 2033, but 10 is really young for a game like Metro.