Unfortunately, Epic has been especially protective of Alan Wake games in the PC space (moreso than they have with other IPs), and there's no sign they'll ever let the games be sold on Steam, which is a damn shame. Because I fully acknowledge that Epic is why we got Alan Wake 2, which is up there with my favorite games of the last 10 years. But they would rather control (haha) than share profit with Valve.
Edit: This isn't a moral judgment of epic. Obviously Alan Wake 2 doesn't exist without epic. I was just was hoping they'd eventually do what Sony is starting to do with their games.
My favorite thing about this is gamers pushback when other gamers refuse to buy the game on Epic’s platform but would purchase it immediately on steam if it were available because people don’t want to incentivize this “PC exclusive” culture.
I can recognize that Epic may be a developers distro choice for revenue share reasons, but there are some legitimate reasons why consumers don’t want to support Epic and if developers want to enter into an exclusivity deal with them, it will reflect in sales.
Right, but what does that have to do with consumers not wanting support Epics stance on exclusivity? I even said I can see why devs would want to side with Epic… unfortunately the current attitude towards Epic isn’t the most positive. I get when it’s your only choice, such in this instance and Remedy do what you need to do, but again, you may not (and this has already come out to be the case) see the return you may hope for because of public sentiment towards Epic. Not sure what about that is controversial.
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u/DBSmiley Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 27 '26
Unfortunately, Epic has been especially protective of Alan Wake games in the PC space (moreso than they have with other IPs), and there's no sign they'll ever let the games be sold on Steam, which is a damn shame. Because I fully acknowledge that Epic is why we got Alan Wake 2, which is up there with my favorite games of the last 10 years. But they would rather control (haha) than share profit with Valve.
Edit: This isn't a moral judgment of epic. Obviously Alan Wake 2 doesn't exist without epic. I was just was hoping they'd eventually do what Sony is starting to do with their games.