Alan Wake 2 will not be on Steam still despite reports it is still not in profit

You left out "Steam" in the title. ^^

I know it is a bit irrelevant, but I will be buying it for PS. I want this game in physical form on my shelf... 😅

CHEH.

I mean, I wouldn't buy it even on steam, so.... It's just not my cup of tea.

if i ever decide to play it there is always a way i guess, its been many years since last time.

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Thank God for my Xbox. Fukk EPIC.

Just let them die as a game developer.

In the last few years, I usually don't buy games so early since release. But in this case, I bought it on one of the firsts sale of the game.
If I remember correctly it was around 40€ for the Deluxe Edition, a couple of months after the release, so it was a nice discount (It was 25% off, and another 33% off, if I remember correctly). So I bought it. If not for that aditional 33% discount, I doubt I would have bought it then, and now I would be waiting for bigger discounts).
So for me it was a strange case of being better that it was only on Epic.

well there goes my hope

Finally played the first game and I honestly don't get what all the hype was about back in the day. The story is interesting, but everything else is average at best. Game is way too easy even on Nightmare. Combat gets repetitive and boring fast. But worst of all, the game just doesn't build up to any kind of climax. There is no plot twist, you sort of just mosey on to the ending through long linear levels and then it's over. Not really looking forward to playing the sequel.

Well, their lose in the end. Im not gonna buy anything on trashy EGS.

Ok. Didn't even realize it's not on Steam.

I will eventually buy it on Epic then. Not in a hurry to get it, but definitely interested.

Remedy games usually sell on long run - most games sell in first few months then wither down a lot. For example iirc, control has sold 4.5m in lifetime and 500k of it last year. Which is imo quite a bit considering its 2019 game and hardly "huge name" despite lot of influencer hype on visuals and story. But I might be remembering numbers wrong.

Either way, thing is that Epic funded the game and it wouldnt have happened without them. I also dont think PC market was that big for AW2, considering system requirements specially at launch. Probably sold more on consoles. Bit shame its not coming to steam but idk, its just one launcher for me personally. Its not like you are buying whole new console or abandoning steam.

Also 'horror' is usually kinda niche. Things outside Resident Evil and maybe FNAF barely sell big numbers. Even Silent Hill series as whole, before 2 remake, has sold like 9 million .. and compare that to RE7 that sold 9 million alone.. and RE4 (both OG and remake) probably even more.

they made a shit deal. i played on ps5 and loved it though so maybe think about playing it.

It's no surprise that a game funded by Epic won't come to Steam. And it is no problem at all to play it on Epic. That's what I'll be doing.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/23/epic-games-shifts-eu-app-store-strategy-after-missing-target-by-71-million-users

I hope that they won't do this again with Max Payne remakes...

If epic invested more in making a decent client and less into exclusivity, then they would have a more compelling case against steam. Having said this, Steam now is not the Steam it used to be. I miss summer sale events where you could do in-game achievements and get small rewards like tf2 and dota2 items and small dlcs.

I like Alan Wake 1 and would like to play Alan Wake 2, but I am not in a rush to play it since I have a huge backlog of other games.

I've heard many companies saying that and then they change tactics. It will happen, but not any time soon. Idk how much Remedy is making, but they would have made a lot more on Steam if they were smart. Exclusivity and microtransactions are the worst thing that happened to video games.

They will come back, just like EA and Ubisoft and everyone else did.

It is so strange that something created to fight the "monopoly" of Steam become monopoly itself.

No option for "Yes, because I knew it would never come to Steam"? They said it right away because it was entirely funded by Epic and wouldn't have existed at all, otherwise.

When you sell your soul for non-profit.

Welp, it was Epic who funded the game's development and took care of publishing it so I'm not that surprised. I still wouldn't be so sure that it'll never come to Steam tho, if the Epic store never manages to be profitable eventually they'll have to come back to Steam whether it's in the near future or a decade from now, and I'm talking about the whole of Epic and not just Remedy.

Regardless, even tho I want to play Alan Wake 2 I'd need a new PC to do so first, and even then I'm gonna wait for the game to go on a deep discount. So I'll buy it and play it... someday.