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Alan Wake 2 Still Hasn't Earned Back Its Budget (techraptor.net)

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[–] chemical_cutthroat 53 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Launching it as an Epic Exclusive on PC sure didn't help.

[–] bennel 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Yep. Heard great things about the game, but I'm waiting till it's on steam to get it. I refuse to give Epic a dime. Exclusivity deals hurt consumers.

[–] Buddahriffic 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, while I wouldn't be against decent competition for Steam, exclusivity deals aren't something involved with that. I'm not sure MBAs even know how to compete with Steam.

Though maybe, at some point, some capitalist will realize that there's a ton of money to be made from providing good products where the primary design concerns aren't about maximizing profit or ensuring future profit can be made.

[–] bennel 2 points 6 months ago

Exactly. Win customers over by providing a better experience that makes people want to use your platform over a competitor, not because they're forced to

[+] [email protected] -6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So you don't play any games that use Unreal?

[–] bennel 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I meant I don't want to give the Epic Store a dime.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You do realize Epic owns Unreal. The store, game engine, both are giving the same people money.

"I'm not going to give Nestle a dime of my money!" While eating Hot Pockets.

[–] bennel 6 points 6 months ago

Yes, I do realize the money goes to the same place. My argument is not that Epic should go bankrupt. My argument is that I don't want to encourage or support the Epic Store.

"vote with your wallet" - my vote says I approve of unreal but disapprove of epic store.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember that next time a game is exclusive to Windows

[–] bennel 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Okay?

2 wrongs don't make a right. That said, Microsoft does this much less frequently than Epic and mostly just with first party games.

Here's a list of Microsoft Store exclusives. I don't see a whole lot of triple A games on there.

Starfield was on Steam at launch, as was Halo Infinite. Microsoft has been moving away from exclusivity. But how dare they keep Solitaire all to themselves, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I thought I read Microsoft will launch all PC games on steam going forward.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Almost didn't buy it due this, but ended up getting it on PS5. Refuse to use epic even for their free games.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Now watch 505 launch Control 2 on steam and just roll in money.

Epic is literally taking a shotgun to their own leg.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

I pirated it because Epic Games. What an absolute banger of a horror game. Legit in my top 3 favorite games of all time. They'll get my $ when they come to steam, if they do.

[–] notaviking 8 points 6 months ago

Can they release it on steam? Unfortunately this might be where epic sticks to its guns and won't release it on steam, since if they did why would I ever get it on epic, I will just wait a few years. One way they could have gone is have it maybe at twice the price than what it will be on Epic. But this is like the streaming wars, first Netflix gave us what we wanted, everything in one place, and now that has led to a lot of great shows and movies being unknown due to the fragmentation of the platforms. Steam was ahead of its time, has a massive following and if it doesn't get greedy will hopefully stay the place most relevant PC gaming platform

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Epic lol

[–] NocturnalMorning 6 points 6 months ago

That's a shame bcz this game was absolutely amazing. I played it on ps5, and I was floored by how good it was.

[–] hardaysknight 5 points 6 months ago

I played on PS5. It was an amazing game. I hope they continue and don’t get discouraged by the fact that Epic games sucks ass

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

I bought this game on EPIC games because I wanted to play it. I bent over backwards to get this thing to run well because I wanted the full experience. I built a windows PC just for it.

It's a pain playing it on Linux I'm basically forced to run a modified pirated version of a game I paid for to get a consistent experience.

I hope that maybe they will release a complete edition of Alan Wake 2 on steam when Control 2 finally hits because this is the kind of game that people want access to the back catalogue to theorize about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They didn't release a physical version for ps5 so i didn't buy it. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who ended up disenchanted with this game's distribution.