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Alan Wake 2 is finally profitable over a year after release, says Remedy

www.eurogamer.net Alan Wake 2 is finally profitable over a year after release, says Remedy

Alan Wake 2 has now passed 2m sales and has finally started making a profit.

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The game was acclaimed and beloved by virtually everyone who played it, and it's only becoming profitable now? Is it too simplistic to say that a normal release across multiple storefronts, namely Steam, would have made it profitable in a matter of months?

I genuinely keep forgetting the game exists. An article like this one will pop up from time to time, and only then will I remember about it. Epic is a black hole.
- But... but... Epic funded the game, this means they physically cannot put it on Steam! Nevermind the dozens of games on Steam published by owners of competing platforms, such as UbiSoft, Activision, Sony, CDPR, EA...
- Epic probably bankrolled a significant chunk of development to get that deal. Whether accepting the deal was a bad move or not is really hard to say
  
  They funded a lot and take 50% of the profits. Luckily Control 2 and Max Payne remakes are not Epic published/exclusives.
An excellent game that was undercut by their exclusivity deal with Epic
- Which is why I haven't played it. Epic will never see my credit card number. I'd throw money after the game on GOG or Steam, and I think there are quite a few of us.
  
  I'm out of the loop. Why hate epic more than others?
- Epic was the publisher and funded the game so not the basic Epic exclusive what we’ve used to see with many games.
Gee, I wonder if trying to force people to use Epic had anything to do with it...
- Epic is the publisher. Of course they want to use their own platform to publish their own games.
  
  Yup, but fuck Epic and their shitty launcher. I'll never use it even for free games, never mind exclusives.
I completely missed this since it apparently came out on Epic.
Kingdom come II was profitable after the first day. EGS is just a black hole.
So glad it seems to be a stellar game. The horror might be to much for me tho
I would have bought it but there was no physical release until later when Limited Run games did a limited run of the game at their premium price point. And by the time I knew Limited Run was doing a release, it was too late to get one.

Until I can do the following:

-- legally resell a digital copy of a game I bought,

-- be able to easily and legally backup and restore the digital games I've bought,

-- have legal guarantees that the digital games I bought won't be taken away from me,

my reasons for wanting physical copies are more than valid.

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