Comment on Exclusive Interview with Remedy’s New CEO: “Alan Wake and Control Should Have Sold More"
iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gee, I wonder if not putting Alan Wake in steam might have had anything to do with it?
Quite literally would not have existed had Epic not funded it. Lake shopped it around for the better part of a decade seeing if anyone would be interested in funding it, but no one besides Epic would.
So, again, this game would not exist if Epic wasn’t involved.
It’s a shame people don’t seem to realise this. I have genuinely no idea why you’re getting downvoted. I guess people on Lemmy just hate Epic that much. I think if the Epic Store was the last food source on Earth, over half of Lemmy would voluntarily starve to death.
Anyway, it’s a real shame what happened. Alan Wake 2 is a true masterpiece and yet it needed like a year and a half post release to just break even. It makes me fear that we won’t ever see another Alan Wake game as ambitious and amazing.
Yes, it’s an unfortunate reality that EGS was the only option. But still, my hope is that someone can crunch the stats and prove to future publishers that the revenue delta can be attributed to EGS exclusivity.
Yes, but the game was payrolled by Epic and wouldn’t even exist without them. Its different from those other instances where they threw money at a game at the end and bought the exclusivity.
Addv4@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yep. Genuinely would have gotten it if on steam, just want to make sure I can continue to play it if I want to in many years time.
tomalley8342@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s DRM free, you can just zip up the files if you really wanted to make sure.