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Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 (www.ign.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shame it didn't do well, I thought it was great.

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[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I hear what you're saying, but gamers in this thread (and every thread), are demanding that it come out on Steam, not on GOG, which makes them a huge part of the problem.

Lock in exists partially because gamers have lionized Valve for throwing them trinkets and refuse to use anything else, while Valve has designed their platform around a mandatory launcher and done what they can to lock players into it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

If you check this list and this list, many games on Steam will actually launch without Steam running. ~~I don't think I can say the same for a lot of other platforms, excluding GOG and itch, of course.~~

I don't disagree with you about why it exists and that it's bad, but the fact remains that it does exist and Remedy and Epic, as companies, need to face that when making these decisions and factor that into sales projections accordingly. They should have known what they were getting into, and forcing people into using Epic isn't really the answer to the lock-in problem anyway.

Edit: Turns out a bunch of other platforms have DRM-free games too, TIL.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I don't want to use Windows, but play on my Linux Gaming PC. This works really nice because of the work, Valve does on Proton and gives back to Wine. GoG is cool, but they don't help in regards to this. The Epic fucks (hehe) are actually hostile towards Linux, so before I would buy there, I would pirate their games or just not play the game at all.

When the Steam enshittification starts, I will be one of the first to say fuck them, too.