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Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent (www.eurogamer.net)

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[-] notaviking@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah I feel there is a weird history between steam and remedy media. Like I remember when you could one day buy Alan Wake like really cheap since it was being taken off steam. Then the Epic deal making Alan Wake 2 exclusive basically meant they excluded a lot of customers immediately on steam.

[-] NoMoreCocaine@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

I know a guy who's been working there for well over a decade, I wonder if he's got any insights on this weird behavior they've been doing. He's got no power over financial decisions, so it's not likely he's got any details.

[-] notaviking@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I understand that Epic funded their project to be an Epic exclusive, but was that a financially sound decision excluding the major market place. Could they not have worked in like a two year or three year exclusive period

[-] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

and who exactly have they excluded? aside from the steam deck users every steam user can easily use epic game store

[-] batmaniam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

People who don't want to use the epic store. That was me. I just don't want another launcher, another account. I'll get around to it at some point I'm sure but I didn't buy AW2 and probably would have if it wasn't an exclusive.