Alan Wake 2's Seemingly Dire Sales Don't Paint the Full Picture
Alan Wake 2's Seemingly Dire Sales Don't Paint the Full Picture
Earlier today, we reported on Circana's monthly US game sales report, which has Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in a neck-in-neck battle for annual best-seller. But a quick glance over the charts for November reveals a conspicuous missing entry. Where's Alan Wake 2?
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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.
Borderlands 2 was peak for me, franchise went steadily downhill from there imo. 4 friends battling Vermivorous the Invincible is an unforgettable experience.
Daaaaaamn so much memories.
Really wanted to like it, it's been a long time seems a good BL game, but the quests were tedious and the melee didn't work.
The whole arpg loop where they give you shitty weapons for the first few hours sucks
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.
Its not just a limited Epic exclusive. Its not going to leave the EGS.