Rumor: Alan Wake 2 is in Development - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 02 September 2021 / 4,231 Views
Remedy Entertainment released the action-adventure game, Alan Wake, for the Xbox 360 in May 2010 and for PC in February 2012. A stand-alone expansion, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, was released in 2012 for the Xbox 360 and PC.
VentureBeat’s Jeff Grubb on a Twitch live stream said that Alan Wake 2 is indeed in development in a deal with Epic Games who will publish the title. Epic Games provided the best offer, which is why they are publishing the title.
The Alan Wake franchise has sold over 4.5 million units worldwide as of March 2015.
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Excited about this! Can't believe it's been an entire generation since the last games
YES PLEASE!
Consoles and pc exclusive to epic game store?
Only on gamepass?
I hate Epic, but I really love Alan Wake. So thanks Epic, I will patiently wait for a Steam release though.
About time.
This is an April Fools, isn’t it?
I don’t see how someone at Venture Beat would be able to confirm what’s going on at Remedy.
I think it's a shit line of logic, because that's like saying we'd never have the sodding lightbulb without Thomas Edison, only Tesla actually beat him to it prior, but people like to forget that on purpose for assholish reasons.
Someone will come by to invent something if someone else doesn't, that is a fact of our reality Zero. The business model benefits the publisher, not the public, certainly not via exclusivity.
MS owns the Allan Wake and Quantum Break IPs.
It is April 1st people...
From the business perspective, this makes perfect sense. From the gamer perspective, this is more or less annoying and, if the game wouldn't have been made otherwise, nice as well.
Personally I have no interest in seeing Valve do the same. That's not even to say Valve couldn't or shouldn't improve, but personally I don't consider what you're suggesting to be an improvement.
No thanks I don't need valve to do this. Alan Wake 2 was going to be made either way Epic simply paid them more. I don't mind though I can wait a year and play it on steam just like I did with Control. Probably get all the expansions with it as well so it worked out even better for me. Paid $40 and all the expansions it was a good deal. I don't really care that Epic is doing this though they are just hemorrhaging money their reports have shown this. They can only keep this up for so long.
What's actually more annoying to me is that Epic continues to do stuff like this but they've made no effort to improve their own store at all. I take the free games and that's it I want nothing to do with such a lazy company that thinks just throwing money at a problem is the way to fix it.
I wish Valve would pay the devs a bit more but that's about it. They've been great as far as a store and as far as prices go. I also game on console though so I know just how much money I save as a PC gamer. Nintendo is the worst when it comes to prices.
Now that I think about I think Sony and MS take a similar percentage that steam does so maybe Steam is doing just fine.
It's hardly even a "platform", it's more a "game client/store", a platform is more akin to a console/PC, otherwise it's going to be very odd to say a platform doesn't have a god damn shopping cart, instead of the storefront doesn't have a god damn shopping cart.
Xbox ecosystem is more a platform, in that it contains more than just XBL.
Epic isn't "founding" anything, they are making bribed deals to prevent GoG, Steam, Origin and sometimes Uplay from getting access to those games for a limited amount of time, ultra specifically to first year sales, which as you and I know are more important than year later sales.
We've also seen console games coming over to PC for years, what's going on here is nothing new, as we see consoles buying up exclusivity all the damn time, only Epic is brining console style specific rules (yes specific, because fucking Valve/GoG don't do this all the time) to an otherwise open platform, and as you can see, and are weirdly tired of (you're like the complete opposite at this point), people do not like Epic buying up games exclusively to be sold on one store.
No, Valve shouldn't be playing by Epic's rules and neither should CDP, because by playing Epic's rules, you then see Epic becoming the one setting the trends, the new rules, thus becoming top dog, so fuck that. Gabe also stated they don't see reason to do that, like at all, and neither do CDP.
Why does anyone that isn't MS have to turn their storefront into a stupid ass "platform". MS gets to do so because they freaking started an ecosystem to make MONEY and as we can see from history, bragging rights (which they stopped doing during the rise of the PS4). MS also have an OS via Windows, which has now become another part of their own ecosystem, Valve just has their storefront and nothing more.
I don't know about you, but I'm comfortable where I am, I don't have to move anywhere, because what I have with me currently suits my needs and tastes. I don't want Valve copying MS and also copying Epic's shitty ideals and ethics, because that makes for a god awful combo.
You've changed over the years Zero, and I'm gonna be brutal here, not for the better. I detest console style ideals, because they exist only to make money, and you're not here to make fucking money, nor am I, so cut the job with the bootlicking crap of being all lovey dovey at seeing a company make money, and think from a consumer standpoint, which is wanting us to have MORE OPTIONS, not less. WHy the hell do you think PC gamers hate fragmentation or console style rules, why do you think we bypass them as much as we can?.
