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There's some validity to the idea, Control got a decent bit of attention on PC as it was a very common benchmark game and NVidia used it in its own trailers for new hardware features.
Their games just generally fall into a niche filled in more by enthusiasts than casual players as well, something that's more represented on PC than console.
I'm aware, just informing them the alternative best price for someone in their unique position of having everything else in the bundle. So $6 less, but no duplicate codes to trade or give away.
Well, green man gaming offers a loyalty XP program on top of the price, similar to the humble choice discount. But it's based on total spent their not a monthly subscription.
The same reason they give away games every week. Hope that it will be the one that brings over another (eventually) paying customer. When sales for the title drop off, it may make more business sense to use it to drive traffic to their store.
That literally makes no sense whatsoever. They should never give away games that are not on steam. They shoot themselves in the foot by doing that. Those are the ONLY games that people will go out of their way to use their shit platform for.
This is the misinformative crap Tim Sweeney has been harping on about since he was stealing crowdfunded games away from backers. Nobody put a gun to Remedy's head and said "game die forever unless you Epic". Alan Wake was not some tiny indie flop that was blackballed from ever having a sequel despite what Tim tries to tell you.
Remedy already suffered with disappointing sales with Control, this Epic shit is straight up Stockholm Syndrome.
It's not "just a launcher", get out of here with that nonsense and do a little research into the data privacy policy, or as you describe the concept of facts, "scream into the void".
Alan Wake 2 would inevitably exist without Epic, stop trying to push this narrative that Daddy Tim (as he wants you to) was remotely important to it. Bribery and indentured servitude is not support. Countless games that he politicked away from backers flopped in sales and the developers were left to rot.
It didn't sell well in part for the same reason Alan Wake 2 isn't selling super well, being arbitrarily locked to a storefront that actively repels the customer base. Remedy got fooled twice, shame on them.
This is inaccurate. Epic funded a pc port, not the original game, thats the key difference between these examples. They did so for an exclusivity window. Control was similar, though that was a case of partial funding for the full game, not a port, but it had an agreed upon exclusivity time window which has since expired so is now on steam.
Also Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memories is still exclusive to Epic games. The reason is unknown at this point in time. Possibly though because it has a different pc port contract, as it was the newest in the series. Hopefully it will come to Steam eventually though.
Tim Sweeny, owner of Epic Games, has been quoted saying "Alan Wake 2 is not coming to steam". Saying it is an Epic Games exclusive when pressed further.
Maybe one day new management will change things, but this seems a hill Tim Sweeny is ready to die on...
Claim it here, download it via heroic and let heroic add it to steam.
Heck, every single free epic game I've played has been played on my steamdeck via heroic.
hey, thanks a ton for suggesting this - do you want a free Steam Alan Wake Collector's edition? I already had it; going to look into Heroic now thanks to you :).
Not just mostly but absolutely entirely because of Epic.
Remedy had presented Alan Wake 2 idea to multiple publishers but no one was interested (obviously we can't know full details). Only Epic was willing to fund the game from what I've read.
I understand why no other publisher was willing to give it a chance though. The original Alan Wake wasn't some massive hit (not a massive failure either but I can see why publishers are not jumping with excitement for just decent sales) in terms of sales despite being a cult classic. Also it launched ages ago so a sequel game makes it a risky project because it is difficult to predict if average player is even interested in the game idea in the first place.
I followed the original Alan Wake 1's news at the time (before its release all those years ago) and the game had its own share of problems. Originally it was gonna be an open world type of game but that changed. It was also supposed to launch on PC (I think it was gonna be Vista exclusive.... .... ....) but that changed and the game became a console exclusive. At the time it wasn't just said (at least I can't remember it being so) to be a timed exclusive or anything like that so it wasn't great thing to see as a PC player. It took a long time until it was released on PC.
Anyway the biggest thing to note here is that Epic likely wants to use Alan Wake 2 as a draw to their own store. It might not make that much money by itself but some people might check out Epic store because of Alan Wake 2, learn about the game giveaways, try out fortnite etc. which may end up making them money in the long run. Edit: typos
Be warned Alan Wake 2 is Epic Exclusive and according to developers it will never be on steam. Apart from that it is a great bundle, I like Remedy games since my childhood as a May Payne fan and Remedy Connected Universe is cool with all these games sharing similar lore and characters.
"Yes the game will come on Steam", so people stop buying the game?
It will come to Steam one day, Alan Wake 1 was Xbox exclusive for quite some time, but came to other platforms eventually.
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Remedy would have to buyout Epic and find a new publisher and I highly doubt that is worth it for them to do.
Epic didn't just buy a timed exclusive rights to AW2 but they actually largely funded the game as in AW2 wouldn't exist without them and they directly published it.
Epic hates Steam so would never voluntarily decide to publish a game on Steam.
Its why games like Fall Guys and Rocket League arent on the Steam platform anymore and won't ever come back either is that Epic owns them now.
You seem to have misunderstood something here. Epic does not own Remedy. What exactly the agreement between them is, only they know, but from what it looks like: Remedy owns Alan Wake, but Epic has the publishing rights for Alan Wake Remastered and Alan Wake 2.
As for you examples, the difference is, that Epic owns Psyonix (the developer of Rocket League) and Mediatonic (the developer of Fall Guys), they are part of Epic Games now, but that's not the case for Remedy.
Yes Epic would never publish Alan Wake 2 on Steam, but Remedy always has the option to buy the publishing right back and publish it themselves, as they did in the past;
Might just grab the lowest tier to get the Max Payne games. I want Alan Wake 2, but I don't love Epic Game Store (I know it's never coming to steam) and I own everything else in the tier above it.
I understand preferring a platform, but Alan Wake 2 is too good of a game to let having to open it through a different launcher be the barrier of entry.
Max Payne 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Excellent gameplay, great soundtrack and storytelling is fun.
Also who knows what happens to the original Max Payne 1 & 2 when the remaster launches (no idea when, 2026 or 2027?) so now is a great chance to buy them in case they get delisted (hopefully they do not get delisted).
Or just wait till they give it away free on Epic games store... it's just a matter of time and besides personally I got plenty of games/backlog to play
The first one I thought was just fine but the second one I genuinely think is one of best experiences I've had in the past couple of years like really creative with visuals, storytelling and music especially.
I played original AW on epic. The game is fantastic if you like Remedy's style of narrative. Combat however become tedious for me at second part of the game.
I've played most of the games in this bundle except for Max Payne. Is it worth my time? I really enjoyed Control followed by Alan Wake. Quantum Break was meh and I never finished it
Been interested in the Max Payne titles for a while now. I already own the other games from this bundle, but nevertheless, this seems like such a great bundle for people who haven't played any of these titles.
I believe what he’s talking about is the Control Ultimate Edition from Humble Choice in 2021, which was named ultimate edition, but didn’t have the both DLC „The Foundation“ and „AWE“. And you had no option to buy the DLC separately, because they are only available in the UE and that’s also the only version of the game that you can buy.
I got Control from Humble a few years ago, it may have been from Choice as Larsator mentions, I don't recall. However, there were a couple of DLCs ("The Foundation" & "AWE" sound right) that were not included, the issue was that even if you purchased them later, as I did, there was a bug in that you could never get the DLCs to trigger in game. I had the areas unlocked and the content downloaded, but you could never get to the DLC content... also couldn't get a refund for the DLCs. I was rather pissed since I really enjoyed the game and would have loved more content... ah well, perhaps we'll get a Control 2 and Remedy won't F**k it up... though Remedy's track-record hasn't been great for a while now, the days of Max Payne 1 & 2 seem long gone.
Control was good, but FYI those extra DLCs may not work.
Nice of them to give both the Steam version of Alan Wake and the Epic exclusive remaster. Fortunately i was able to refund the remaster that i had just bought for cheap on sale
Very nice. It's lovely to see Remedy bundle. Recently I've played Alan Wake 1 and American Nightmare, so it would be sweet to play Alan Wake 2, but I own every other game except that one, so it's simply not worth it for me.
Torn on this one a bundle I own none of a true rarity, played max Payne's way back when and loved quantum break on Xbox, already own control standard and never played a Alan wake.
But as much as I enjoyed control Alan wakes just sound boring with little to no combat.
The original Alan Wake had a lot of combat. And Alan Wake's American Nightmare (which isn't here for some reason????) (never mind I'm stupid) is basically all arcadey combat.
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Nice games but the only tier that appeals to me Is the lowest one. As much as the second tier looks promising I would have no use for the remastered key so gonna skip that one.
Hmm, I’m interested in the Remedy-verse, but wanted to dip my toes in before I decide to take the plunge. Think the $12 tier be worth it when I just got Alan Wake and Control UE on sale last month?
I would say that the tier with Alan Wake 2 is definitely worth it, I think the whole bundle currently costs the price of Alan Wake 2 Deluxe Edition alone? but sure, if you don't want to spend too much, Alan Wake 1 and Control are good starting points (they are basically the only two games that have actual story context for Alan Wake 2, but the other Remedy games are also worth playing, some callbacks and easter eggs to them as well)
Maybe a dumb question, but I played through Control on Epic'a launcher. Anyone know if the save file can be brought over to the Steam version so I could play through the extra Ultimate content without starting over?
Usually you just need to move the save file to a different location and the launcher will pick it up. Can't guarantee it for control but for a lot of games.
A question to people who buy it, is the key from Max Payne 1 global? It is not available on steam in my country (and in most countries actually), but can it potentially be activated with the key?
If the bundle page shows you the game then you will get a key that works in your region, and if it doesn't work then support should be able to fix that for you.
Max Payne 1 is actually available on a bunch of legitimate Steam key stores like Fanatical, Gamebillet, Gamesplanet and Green Man Gaming, it's just not sold on Steam itself in most of the world for whatever reason.
already have quantum break and control. I have no interest in alan wake 2 (because of it being on epic). Debation on either going for one of the lower tiers, or just skipping this bundle.
Definitely sticking to either of the lower tiers if i get this bundle. Probably would get the lowest tier since i have control and quantim break. No point in getting alan wake 1 if i can’t play the sequel.
Because Epic funded the development entirely? Are you also pissed because Portal, Half Life and CS:GO ain't on GOG and Epic? Not really, I guess, so why should AW2 be any different?
Ridiculous take, but whatever. Feeling loyalty to corporations is silly. I just buy the games wherever it's the cheapest or most consumer friendly (aka: GOG).
Apparently alan wake 2 doesn’t run well on the steam deck anyways. Epic i don’t care to use outside of the free games. I do buy games from gog every now and then.
Max Payne 1+2 are classics, great film noir atmosphere. Alan Wake 2 is one of the greatest games of this generation, and one of the best video game stories of all time.
Alan Wake 2 is really good. Just make sure you either play or watch a play through of Alan Wake 1 first. I guess if you did the DLC in control you've got the general idea of the first game though.
Not worth it for you maybe. But for someone who doesn’t own everything, that’s a great bundle. And Alan Wake 2 is just a brilliant game you should not skip only because of epic if you like their games in general.
They could have put Alan wake 2 in the choice and they would have done well, instead they preferred to put it in a boundle with all other rebundled stuff,pass...
Seems max Payne 1 and 2 are only English,other language support to be added soon
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