Earlier today, we reported on Circana's monthly US game sales report, which has Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 in a neck-in-neck battle for annual best-seller. But a quick glance over the charts for November reveals a conspicuous missing entry. Where's Alan Wake 2?
It’s not a normal epic exclusive, like Hades, for example. Epic didn’t just paid them to keep the game out of Steam (for a time), they financed the while game. Developers of “normal” exclusives get money to release their game, already under development, on EGS first. Alan Wake 2 is different, it wouldn’t exists without Epic games.
Look, I like my steam library as the next guy, and would be happy to have all my games there, but in this case there is literally nothing wrong with the game being only available on EGS. Would I prefer to have it on Steam? Yeah, of course. But I also very much happy to just be able to play it, and if I have to do it on Epic, well, that’s really not a big deal.
It’s not a normal epic exclusive, like Hades, for example. Epic didn’t just paid them to keep the game out of Steam (for a time), they financed the while game. Developers of “normal” exclusives get money to release their game, already under development, on EGS first. Alan Wake 2 is different, it wouldn’t exists without Epic games.
Look, I like my steam library as the next guy, and would be happy to have all my games there, but in this case there is literally nothing wrong with the game being only available on EGS. Would I prefer to have it on Steam? Yeah, of course. But I also very much happy to just be able to play it, and if I have to do it on Epic, well, that’s really not a big deal.