Exciting announcement. Two of the best creative and narrative focused companies in gaming.
Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2
Submitted 8 months ago by AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz to games@lemmy.world
https://www.remedygames.com/article/remedy-and-annapurna-announce-a-strategic-cooperation-agreement
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masterspace@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 8 months ago
That seems like a huge step for Anapurna too, doesn’t it?
masterspace@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Not really I don’t think … Anna Purna already publishes a lot of games and has published a lot of notable films in the past few years.
SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Fuck epic!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
obligatory fuck epic yourself coward
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 months ago
God damn how I wish James McCaffrey was still with us.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Annapurna is Annapurna and is already “weird”. But noticing a lot more push for video games as film. And not just the nonsense of shit like Rampage and Borderlands but stuff like Remedy-verse and El Paso Elsewhere as well as Blumhouse getting involved as more of a publisher (?).
We are probably in for a bad time because… yeah. But I am optimistic. Because Remedy (heavily involved rather than just licensed) and Xalavier Nelson Jr and the like are REALLY good at taking advantage of the medium to tell their stories and… their stories are actually pretty okay as stories with a LOT of character work.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Can’t say I love Annapurna, but at least control 2 will be on steam. Hopefully from day 1.
AutoPastry@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
As I understand it, Control 2 will be self-published by Remedy and is just being confused by Annapurna in exchange for film and tv rights
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oooh, now it’s getting interesting
Duenan@aussie.zone 8 months ago
They somehow just stuffed up the PS5 copies of Outer Wilds.
The discs have been printed with just the base game without patches or the dlc.
They really stuffed that up.
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Really liked Control, although the Alan Wake DLC was disappointing. Hoping the second on has more Threshold kids!
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 8 months ago
Great to see that Epic didn’t snatch that one up.
I love Remedy and their games but their publisher choice is always atrocious.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Dear PC gamers, please stop bitching about installing a second games launcher. If you wanted all games to only come out on a single launcher then you should have bought a console.
Us console players are getting real sick of the endless bitching about Epic just because they tried to break Steam’s monopoly.
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 8 months ago
They should have spent those millions to fund development of a store that can actually compete with the competition and studios that produce games, which they then can sell on their own platform.
Instead they snatched up every new release on the way to Steam while still not being able to provide the basic necessities of a modern PC store front.
So why should I bother purchasing something from them? They have nothing to offer and actively make it harder for me to play games through their store with their anti-Steam Deck stance.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No.
Don’t force me to install a garbage dump that runs like shit and isn’t even close to feature complete to play a game.
Or do and I won’t pay, either way works lol.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
yawn
If it’s not on Steam or GoG I pirate. Console children should go touch grass or go to school so they understand something other than defending multi-billion dollar megacorps.
batmaniam@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or just… Don’t make a launcher?
zecg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m neither bitching nor installing that shit. I take every freebie, but never install anything other than through Steam, just let 'em pile up. I’m actually not bothered by exclusivity at all, I only exceedingly rarely pay for games before they’re 75% off a few years down the line. Stuff like Synthetik 2 or Shapez 2, where I know what I’m getting and it’s a small team with an uncompromising vision.
Steam doesn’t have monopoly on anything, they just have superior service that people prefer, but there’s quite a few stores / launchers. I like Epic’s engine, but their launcher is still crap five years down the line.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No, and fuck you.
There is no purpose in a second game launcher and it only causes things to be cumbersome. Hell, games don’t technically need any launcher.
limitedduck@awful.systems 8 months ago
I can agree that challenging Steam is probably a good thing, but right now Steam just gives so much more value to Devs and publishers. Steam provides:
and that’s just what I can think of, not including the player specific stuff like library sharing.
Devs and publishers pay more, but get a community and ecosystem in return instead of just a platform.
stardust@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I prefer EA and Ubisoft.
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Remedy and Epic agreement was for 2 releases, so I guess Alan Wake Remastered and 2 fit the quota and now they’re free.
Agreed with their bad publisher choices though
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 8 months ago
While I dislike Epic as much as the next guy, lets put taste and emotion aside: they went with Epic because Epic offered them a truckload of money. Presumably, enough money to offset any sales lost due to being limited to EGL temporarily, as well as gamers who boycotted the game for the time it was an exclusive, and presumably, no other publisher was offering them as much, or if they were, there were probably even more downsides.
If there was a more financially sensible choice for Remedy, I guarantee you, they would have made it. People have to remember that video games aren’t just passion projects meant exlcusively to please fans, they’re gigantic, expensive undertakings, surrounded by a massive industry that functions with as much bureaucracy and red tape as any other indistry.
Katana314@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It makes me wonder how it would feel as a game dev getting this deal taken to the extreme.
“Hello, human. I’ve come from the pits of Tartarus to offer a deal. You’ve just finished making a video game. My request is: Do not release it anywhere for 2 years. In exchange, I will give you 5 million dollars.”