They’re just asking for it to be pirated by locking it to epic games launcher.
Good thing nobody on Lemmy believes in pirating media though
It’s Epic exclusive because they gave the devs big stack of money, so that probably offsets the low sales. It’s like with Against the Storm, it was Epic exclusive for many years (in early access), then finally comes to Stream and everbody loves it. They kinda milked Epic for cash, then let the Stream rip the rewards with full release.
Wonder whether that’s pretty good move financially?
It’s not a normal epic exclusive, like Hades, for example. Epic didn’t just paid them to keep the game out of Steam (for a time), they financed the while game. Developers of “normal” exclusives get money to release their game, already under development, on EGS first. Alan Wake 2 is different, it wouldn’t exists without Epic games.
Look, I like my steam library as the next guy, and would be happy to have all my games there, but in this case there is literally nothing wrong with the game being only available on EGS. Would I prefer to have it on Steam? Yeah, of course. But I also very much happy to just be able to play it, and if I have to do it on Epic, well, that’s really not a big deal.
It depends on how many new users begin using the Epic Games store as a result of purchasing Alan Wake.
Obviously they goal is to get people to use their store over steam, so they’re likely just operating at a loss while Forknife continues to generate money. My money is on Steam, but that’s just because I’m biased.
They also need to keep those users though. Like if people just come for Alan wake 2 they have no incentive to stay currently because the epic games store and app are kinda dogwater compared to steam.
Like I have launchers for a couple services on my computer and the only one that gets used except for the purpose of playing one specific game is steam.
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands was Epic exclusive and it didn’t seem to make a splash on either release. I wonder if it’s because people didn’t make the leap to Epic but lost interest by the time it was on Steam? Or maybe Borderlands 3 made people lose interest in the franchise.
The game was not great, at least personally. It wasn’t bad, but it was just BL3 in a different dress, with less interesting story, less interesting characters. Also the DLCs were insane cashgrabs, not even close to the value BL3 DLCs had.
Yeah I’ve never touched any of that series’ DLC, always hear that it’s overpriced.
Personally, I really enjoyed BL2, Pre-sequel, BL3, and TTWL, but I get that the series has lost popularity. I’m huge into D&D so that added an extra layer. The tabletop jokes were on point.
Not releasing on physical media was a huge mistake.
Can’t wait to play once it’s out on steam
I absolutely loved the game
Is the original one worth playing first or is it fine to just watch a playthrough?
I’ve tried the remastered version on PS5, and it’s rough. The atmosphere is great, the combat not so much. Personally, I’ve just watched a plot summary on YouTube, there are many, but I prefer Lady of Lore’s.
Also, the game itself features a semi-conprehensive summary of the first game as well.
I tried to but 2 episodes in I couldn’t stand the combat and just watched a good supercut of all the cut scenes and dialog in the game. Gave me everything I wanted tbh