Alan Wake 2 has now passed 2m sales and has finally started making a profit.
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The game was acclaimed and beloved by virtually everyone who played it, and it’s only becoming profitable now? Is it too simplistic to say that a normal release across multiple storefronts, namely Steam, would have made it profitable in a matter of months?

I genuinely keep forgetting the game exists. An article like this one will pop up from time to time, and only then will I remember about it. Epic is a black hole.

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But… but… Epic funded the game, this means they physically cannot put it on Steam! Nevermind the dozens of games on Steam published by owners of competing platforms, such as UbiSoft, Activision, Sony, CDPR, EA…

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Epic probably bankrolled a significant chunk of development to get that deal. Whether accepting the deal was a bad move or not is really hard to say

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They funded a lot and take 50% of the profits. Luckily Control 2 and Max Payne remakes are not Epic published/exclusives.

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