Given it is not in Steam or Physical, I am worried ALAN WAKE 2 dont sell well, and it would be a pity, it is a MASTERPIECE….incredible love put in the game ….my GOTY
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Given it is not in Steam or Physical, I am worried ALAN WAKE 2 dont sell well, and it would be a pity, it is a MASTERPIECE….incredible love put in the game ….my GOTY
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trust me. it’ll do just fine.
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As much as i like to see games like this sell its also a double edge sword as it puts another nail in the physical media coffin.
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If this sold really well then its more proof the playstation 6 may not have a disc drive.
It’s my first purchase on the EGS. It’s not Steam but the game is great so far.
Considering how every NVIDIA card now seems to comes with a free copy of AW2, I really don’t know what to expect.
On the backlog for after BG3 and CP2077.
BG3 until about feb 2024, 4 months budgeted for CP2077 so June for me if it doesn’t get bumped by Rebirth.
It’ll be fine because if I remember correctly the entirety of the development costs were covered by Epic.
I’m fine waiting a little while longer just in case they release a physical after the DLC’s are done but I hope it still sells well, remedy make some great games and Control is a recent favourite.
So what’s that game about? Looks interesting and very well done
Well, according to them 90% of Control’s sales were digital, so I imagine they’re not losing anything with the reduced cost of no physical manufacturing.
To be fair, the game would not exist in the fully realized state, this truly feels like Sam Lake’s completely uncompromised vision, that we have it in if not for Epic funding its development.
I want to play it, but I won’t buy it until it hits Steam. I know Epic gave them a lot of money to fund the game, but I wonder how much that will end up costing them.
Currently playing the remaster for the first time, really looking forward to jumping in 2 after I’m done
Ok it’s pretty but how’s the gameplay ?
According to the steam hardware survey, only ~20% of all pc gamers meet the 1080p/60fps recommended specs.
This will not sell well by design.
It’s not on Steam, but I’m not a PC player and have nothing against EPIC games so this doesn’t affect me, but psychical really does.
The game is $90 in Australia which, granted, is cheaper than most games are at launch – especially PS5 games. But physical releases sell so much cheaper than digital releases and go on sale much quicker with better sales. Demon’s Souls was $125 at launch, but $100 physical. That’s $25 off for literally nothing. And I ended up buying it for $54 on physical, while it is still $125 digital.
As a gamer on a budget, how good the game is means nothing if it’s not in my price range. $90 is not in my price range. And, since it’s digital only, I doubt it ever will be – and if it is then it’ll probably be well after I’ve lost interest.
Not sure what level of marketing this game received but I’ve seen absolutely nothing. It wasn’t until reviews started appearing online that I was reminded the game exists and had been released. Overall no physical media might not hurt the game, but it may have an impact on console players.
Have you played BG3?
I mean the flow of gameplay is wack. The graphics are amazing sure but the actual gameplay is just like the devs smoked crack
Nvidia and Epic already footed the bill.
Waiting for Steam release 👍
Masterpiece is a massive over exaggeration
Not being on Steam might effect it, though the physical game market is too niche now, won’t have a noticable effect.
They already got their ransom from Epic… and nvidia
Outside of Reddit people all download whatever launcher and play the game. This site is the loud minority of consumers.
Consider that 90% of PCs in existence never have the bloat ware or terrible stock antivirus software cleansed. Per Reddit literally no one does that, even Grandmas find their Zoomer grandson to clean install Linux.
Consider also the massive Reddit boycott and protest a mere 4-5 months ago, where the noisiest Reddit people couldn’t even persuade more than 5% of General Redditors to actually boycott, or Reddit itself to change its mind on third party support.
There are 15,000 people who buy a game they want for every 1 dude keyboard warrioring on Reddit (and 50% of those dudes also bought the game anyway but want karma).
I love Remedy and want to enjoy Alan Wake, but waiting for a Steam sale. However long that will take. I won’t buy it on Epic.
This is a business decision that Remedy definitely considered.
I honestly didn’t know this was out until last week when I saw some posts about it. And for me personally, it isn’t out yet anyway as I don’t do Epic.
So yeah, this’ll probably find its audience on Steam eventually. But for now, it’s probably going to flounder in terms of actual sales.