The CEO of Epic Games confirmed that Alan Wake 2 will never be coming on Steam despite not being profitable for over a year after launch.
  • NeryK@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Epic actually financed Remedy’s development of the game, as opposed to swooping in at the last minute to offer a timed-exclusivity deal. In that case I was fine buying the game on their platform if it meant the game got to exist at all. After all I do not expect Valve to sell their games on another platform than their own.

    Don’t get me wrong: I’d rather the game was sold on Steam, or even better, DRM-less on GOG. I did wait for a number of those timed exclusives to find their way on Steam or other stores (Borderlands 3, Kena, Journey, Control, Hades, etc). It’s a shame that so many people will not get to experience AW2 because of its delivery platform, because it’s a damn unique game.

    • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      As much as I hate Epic, I actually bought AW2 based on that logic but ended up refunding it because, and I can not stress this enough, FUCK ALWAYS ONLINE REQUIREMENTS ON PURELY OFFLINE GAMES. I refuse to pay for an offline game that locks me out when my internet isn’t working…doubly so when the pirated version works perfectly fine without internet.

      P.S. I also refuse to pay for single player games with arbitrary online “features” made to force a DRM check, or games published by cunts that do layoffs and shutter studios while posting record profits but that’s a different conversation.

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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      5 days ago

      It’ll eventually be included in a giveaway anyways like Control was. So if I haven’t bought it by now I’m fine waiting for the giveaway.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I guess I’ll just wait till you dipshits give it to me for free or I’ll pirate it if I ever get the urge to play it.