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Alan Wake 2 to be published by Epic
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Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I'm talking about the AAA industry in general, not Remedy
Fbh
Member
Would be awesome. Really liked the first game but it had the potential for so much more.
Epic is good enough, at least they usually have great regional pricing. Besides this is the right way to have exclusive content, actually go and publish games instead of just paying others to not release their stuff on Steam
I don't really mind the Epic store, but to be fair GOG galaxy natively supporting EGS isn't the same as buying on GOG.
It will still be tied to your Epic account, it will almost definitely not be DRM free nor will they give you the option to download an offline installer.
Epic is good enough, at least they usually have great regional pricing. Besides this is the right way to have exclusive content, actually go and publish games instead of just paying others to not release their stuff on Steam
I don't really mind the Epic store, but to be fair GOG galaxy natively supporting EGS isn't the same as buying on GOG.
It will still be tied to your Epic account, it will almost definitely not be DRM free nor will they give you the option to download an offline installer.
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
I don't support an editor that moneyhat games to unsure it's not coming out elsewhere and then say "Epic love competition, we do this for the gamers (LOL)".
The day Epic will start to make games again (and don't mention Fortnite plz) like, I don't know, UNREAL FREAKING TOURNAMENT then we'll talk.
Melon Husk
Member
Beta tested by Epic & buy the GOTY + DLC edition one year later on Steam...
You think epic are going to let an epic published game on steam?
You expect rocket league to come back to the steam store?
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
But EPICs publishing deal is one of the best?
Sony and MS do arguably worse publishing deals do you boycott them too?
scoobidoo112
Member
KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
You are totally missing my point. Indeed Epic is a publisher now (and I'll wait a few years to get a final judgment on their practice), so the only way for them to get games on their platform is by buying them for full exclusivity.But EPICs publishing deal is one of the best?
Sony and MS do arguably worse publishing deals do you boycott them too?
They use the art of wording to get people on their side like what they did against Apple and all this online campaign. And I have to say, they know this shit better than anyone it seem.
I think like this: Ubi has their own games, so if I want to play one of them I install Uplay. Same goes for EA, Battle.net etc...
On the other side Epic had Unreal, Gears, Bulletstorm and more but it's all gone. I look at what they want to do now and I'm just not interested in encouraging their practice.
And that's without mentioning Tencent, the shitty launcher which is a gaz factory etc...
The day Epic is building gaming studios to support their effort and stop playing the easy card by buying loved IP's, I may (or not) reconsider this.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
01011001
Banned
oh not again Epic Store exclusive! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
WEEEEEELLLLL... technically Control is set in the Alan Wake universe... so yeah. basically they're creating their own MCU lol
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KyoZz
Tag, you're it.
01011001
Banned
it is tho... for half of the planet
Oddvintagechap
Member
Stop crying.
Epic Games Publishing Announces Partnerships with gen DESIGN, Playdead, and Remedy Entertainment
Epic Games aims to redefine publishing with best-in-class terms.
www.epicgames.com
Epic pays for everything. Developers keep everything. They split the profits.
Salmon Snake
Member
Yup. I almost added that to my post.
But Control is still very different game from Alan Wake.
And the vanilla game has pretty loose ties with AW.
JimmyRustler
Gold Member
Hope this is not some April's fools crap.
I honestly don't care on which plattform it comes out, just hope it finally gets made. AW was such a great game.
I honestly don't care on which plattform it comes out, just hope it finally gets made. AW was such a great game.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Remedy own the IP, Microsoft explicitly passed on publishing the sequel........it will 100% hit PS5
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Microsoft never owned the IP.
Its been Remedys from the jump.....no one wanted to publish Alan Wake 2 when MS refused Remedy still tried to shop it around......the entire industry was against it.
I bet without Epic this game would still be be the plague......thank god for FortNite....now Epic Publishing can fund all that weird shit the industry "thinks" wont work.
ZywyPL
Banned
After the commercial success of Control I think Remedy will avoid exclusivity at all cost. Control wasn't their best creation, but just being available on so many platforms made it so much more financially successful than their previous titles.
xrnzaaas
Member
Why? It still looks awesome, especially on PC.
They are publishing a game from Remedy and I think their next game is supposed to be in the Alan Wake universe
swaffles23
Member
I don't care who publishes it as long as we get Alan Wake 2
VN1X
Banned
Yup, easy skip for me.
In a lot of cases this is even beneficial as I'll have more time to play other titles instead. Wahey!
Interfectum
Member
martino
Member
but but but it's building long term partnership for organic growth /s
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Remedy seems capable of making actual games now, so this might be interesting as I did like the atmosphere of Alan Wake, but it was like 50% finished as a game.
DiscoHippo
Banned
How was the original 50% finished?
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Just my opinion; it felt really incomplete.. from a gameplay perspective mostly, but they also modeled areas of the world that you could go to that had nothing in them.. and it wasn't like it was truly an exploration game.
JCK75
Member
So I had an Epic account for years before the EGS was thing because I was developing a game, the trick is they had no 2FA of any kind and all someone needed to fuck me out of using my account was to have my email and just repeately fail getting into it and that would lock me out for 24 hours, whoever the fuck does these things kept trying forever it seemed and I literally was ALWAYS locked out of my account even though I knew the correct password.
This happened primarily because they compromised user data to hackers no less than 3 times in a year and I was already pretty fed up with how badly they ran the system before they even started taking steps to be a shitty wanna be monopoly. Their actions since have done nothing to make me even consider using their platform, Tim is constantly contradicting himself and playing victim after doing one stupid thing after another.
The store hasn't improved one iota.
"But you can just play the games on GOG!!"
If I were able to just buy them on GOG that would be awesome, but if I have to financially support that fuckery it goes against everything I believe in..
I'm a Capitalist, and If a company does things I strongly disapprove of I voice my opinion by not doing business with them.
If you choose to that's your right, but don't go around calling people losers just because you can't comprehend why someone would have standards and principals and want to stand firmly by those.
Bridges
Member
Oh you're right, the article I read stating otherwise had an edit clarifying that they only had publishing rights. Even still, it was foolish for MS to not pursue a sequel. It could've grown into a heavy-hitter franchise if they had the chance to iron out some of the kinks of the first game back when it was still fresh in people's minds. Either way, I'm just happy it's getting made (if this is true). There hasn't been much else like it since.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
The thing is at the time, it was a commercial failure, the definition of a cult classic.
An Alan Wake 2 in 2011/12 would be just as cult status as AW if not even more obscure.........it would have been fighting:
- Arkham City
- Dark Souls
- Skyrim
- Uncharted 3
- Gears 3
- The Witcher 2
- Dead Space - Directly
- Mass Effect 3
- Halo 4
- Assassins Creed III
And a bunch of other really good games buried by the murderers row that was 2011/12.
Its no wonder why no publisher wanted to touch it let alone MS after already taking a hit on the first game.
The industry has changed alot and now shelf space isnt that big a deal, but you were never going to see AW2 posters anywhere.
But an X360 exclusive AW2 2011/12 would have vanished into the ether so hard MS probably dodged a bullet not publishing then.
Launching with the Xbox One? Maybe but then we would have lost Quantum Break.......the universe is in order if we are indeed getting AW2 this is the time....multiplatform so more people can play and so it makes enough to lead us into Alan Wake 3 as originally intended.
DiscoHippo
Banned
I definitely get ya when talking about the open areas. I haven't played it in so long, basically when it first came out, so maybe I'm just looking back on it fondly but I remember absolutely loving the gameplay. Those firefly-esque pops when you hold your flashlight on an enemy, the slow motion evades/enemy deaths, and a few fun environmental puzzles made it an incredible experience for me.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Yeah don’t get me wrong, I played the game almost all the way through until that “platforming” section and I enjoyed it.
It just also felt like a game missing things. The gameplay was rather simplistic and the world fairly empty.