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Alan Wake 2's Seemingly Dire Sales Don't Paint the Full Picture (www.ign.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

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?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It depends on how many new users begin using the Epic Games store as a result of purchasing Alan Wake.

    Obviously they goal is to get people to use their store over steam, so they're likely just operating at a loss while Forknife continues to generate money. My money is on Steam, but that's just because I'm biased.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They also need to keep those users though. Like if people just come for Alan wake 2 they have no incentive to stay currently because the epic games store and app are kinda dogwater compared to steam.

    Like I have launchers for a couple services on my computer and the only one that gets used except for the purpose of playing one specific game is steam.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, I probably didn't articulate it well enough, but that is what I mean by "using the Epic Games store".

    I didn't mean simply buying Alan Wake, I meant using the store for other games.

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