While yes the Remaster has been published and taken by EG, it should also be added that the original Alan Wake is still available on Steam alongside American Nightmare which before being delisted cause of copyrighted material originally was published by Microsoft but has since been retroactively changed the publisher to Remedy.
All Epic Games did in the case of Alan Wake 2 and by extension the Remaster was fronting parts of the bill as per any game publisher just to make a game happen. With the downside being that Epic has financial stakes involved.
Alan Wake 2 is a weird case where Epic gave a very hands off dynamic with this game specifically letting Remedy do its thing without meddling.
In terms of the Remaster you aren’t losing anything outside of hidden QR Codes which are nothing more than flavoring to tease the at the time yet to be announced Alan Wake 2.
Every Publishing agreement is different and we won’t know the exact details for Alan Wake 2, but this isn’t the first time in the industry where exclusivity ended and games remained exclusive on set platforms. What we do know is the information we have already that being Remedy has full control of the Alan Wake IP and what they can do with it. Given Remedy wanting to do their whole Expanded Universe I don’t see a world where Alan Wake 2 ends up being on the EGS store exclusively permanently.
Yay! After like 3 days of random day-of-delivery delays to this thing, I finally got my copy of Dying Light 2 - the one good “deal” out of all the regular “Black Friday” deals. Got it physical for 30$(+tax+shipping) which saved me ~7$ if it had been digital 40$.
He either drops it way too many times and it breaks or he simply gets angry or something and smashes it on the ground; unga bunga
If he smashes this one too, I’ll tie two cans with a string for him to speak through.
