I really want to play it, but it’s on epic. I’m waiting for steam version.
Same here. I’ll either wait it out until it eventually comes to Steam or just watch an LP.
PC gaming has taught me patience.
Because I hate using their crappy launcher. It needs me to log in every time. It’s more annoying than my banking app.
I don’t use it because there’s no official Linux client, and they don’t have Linux versions of games even when they exist on other platforms. Linux is what I use, so I’d have to go out of my way to use their platform.
Why bother? Steam gives me a fantastic user experience, almost all the games EGS has (and probably more), actively invests in my platform of choice, makes innovative hardware products like the Steam Deck (which I love), and prices are very similar.
EGS gives me… some free games and holds exclusives hostage? That’s not enough to win me over. Give me a good user experience, not bribes.
Only 850k copies? Jesus. Maybe release it on a bigger platform, lol. Like…not Epic?
Ampere estimates that globally, just on console, Alan Wake 2 sold 850,000 copies as of the end of November.
And,
Epic Games does not provide digital sales data to Circana, so there’s just no way for Circana to tell us how well it sold.
So no one knows apart from Epic and Remedy
I would have picked it up but in waiting for it to come to Steam
Epic published the game, gonna be a long wait. It will come to steam when epic gives up the storefront dream, which is to say never.
I can wait. I got plenty to play. Even Xbox and Playstation are publishing their exclusives on good platforms now. Origin caved. I can wait a decade+ for Todd or Tim or whatever his name is to run out of fortnite money, lol.
For the most gamers I know games are available on Steam or the high seas, especially for me that use Linux so Epic games are not officially available, every game that only releases on Epic for me it’s a “too bad, I would have bought it”
Yup, I’ve never spent a dime at Epic because they don’t support Linux. I’ve bought games from Steam, Humble, and GOG because they do, and I spend far more on Steam because they support Linux better than the other two.
It’s pretty simple for me, if it’s easy to get on Linux, I’ll buy it. If not, I won’t.
Can’t wait to play once it’s out on steam
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?
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.
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.