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Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 (www.ign.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shame it didn't do well, I thought it was great.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Part of the reason why it hasn't done great is because its an Epic exclusive right? If they would have released on Steam they'd make tons more sales

[–] [email protected] 57 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, it's not just an Epic Games exclusive, it's actually published by Epic Games. Which means it probably won't ever come to Steam.

The rest of the Alan Wake franchise (and the Control franchise, including the upcoming Control 2) are published by 505 Games or Remedy themselves, so those all get Steam releases.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

The Alan Wake 1 remaster is also published by Epic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It sucks because i'd love to get my hands on the Alan Wake remaster and Alan Wake II on steam if they put it on there, if only so i can have easier integration with Steam's QOL features. Maybe one day Remedy will pull what they did with the OG Alan Wake when they bought the publishing rights from Microsoft and buy the Publishing rights to Alan Wake II from Epic

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep, I'm waiting for the eventual steam release

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Extremely unlikely. AW2 was funded by Epic, not just paid off to be a timed exclusive like Control (which was published by 505).

That means Epic decides where it gets distributed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh lame. Guesd I'm never getting to play it.