Then their budget was stupid.
If you need something to be a super ultra mega hit just to break even - you’re gambling the company every time.
If you need it to be an unprecedented super ultra mega hit - do something else.
Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s fastest-selling game yet, shifting over 1.3m copies, but hasn’t made a penny of profit
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mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s such a pity, I love their games and hope there will be a Control 2 one day. The first one is probably the best adaptation of the SCP idea that we will ever get.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I would play it if I could get it on Steam for my Steam Deck
ogeist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I loved Control and I was waiting for something from Remedy, but not actively looking for it. I find out that Alan Wake was out because someone was playing it on YouTube. Then i found out it was an Epic Games exclusive but there were bugs on the steamdeck… So not really good marketing I would say.
I may get it in a couple of years.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Same. I would have bought Alan Wake 2 day 1, but… well. Epic Store. Hopefully it comes to other platforms soon.
I do wonder sometimes how much a team shoots themselves in the foot by making a game an EGS exclusive. I mean, sure, they get money, but they are almost certainly losing out on initial sales. The numerical benefits and costs of accepting an exclusivity deal would be really interesting to see, even if no team would ever release that data
MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A part of me thinks you’re right but another part of me sees games coming to steam after being on EGS for a while and they’re often on the top sellers list like they got a second PC launch. I’d be willing to bet that when AW2 comes to steam in a year it’ll sell great again. Might be a long burn but I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually end up making more in the long run being an initial EGS exclusive then releasing again later on Steam.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Yeah like I’ve waited over 10 years for alan wake too, I can wait a little more.
swayevenly@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I would assume it’s because Epic games is the publisher. But I think Remedy has started a trend of releasing on EGS first for a while now.
glimse@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s unfortunate, I was thinking about buying it this weekend! But I’m not about to set up an epic games account to play it
tb_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Epic funded part of the development.
We may not have had the game at all with their investment.
That said, I still hope it comes to Steam.
ogeist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oof, I just looked into it. Remedy signed with Epic as publisher and there are practically no games in steam from Epic so I would not get my hopes up. Time will tell.