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Not just Epic exclusive, funded and published by Epic. It will probably never come to Steam, or at least not for a very long time.
And despite liking Alan wake and control, that decision has permanently offboarded me from their franchise because I refuse to use EGS. oh well!
That's only the case for Alan Wake II. Control Resonant is self-published and available day one on Steam.
Not being able to play Alan Wake 2 makes me not want to play any more games in the series until I can, if ever.
Is Alan Wake 2 officially part of the Control game series? I thought they just shared the same world.
I bet there are Easter eggs, but I haven't seen anything indicating that you need to play AW before Resonance
There was a whole DLC in control tying them together so it seems like it with my current knowledge
Well that's too bad then because I tried playing both AW games and they bored me to death.
Well one could download the games for free... It's not my style for modern PC games, but its not like you aren't able to play. ;-) Also maybe this will be an option in the future when emulation is good enough.
I have no shortage of games to play without doing that
Me too. But its an option if you really want to play this specific game.
You're not missing much anyway. AW2 starts strong and then becomes an unbelievable slog halfway through. I can forgive boring gameplay if there's an interesting story to tell but AW2 has neither.
Throw on top that they ditched Jesse as the main character in control 2 and they've killed nearly all of my interest in this franchise/universe
Silly.
Then use a third party launcher like Heroic and play the game, it's good.
I presume part of that is not wanting to give Epic money, in general.
On top of that, I also don't trust Epic Games with my data anymore and deleted my account.
Yes. They are trying to bribe their way into the market without actually offering anything, and my expectation is if they ever actually get market share we'll see an enshitification speed run.
It's mid at best
You add non steam games to your steam library with a click. There's no need for another launcher on top of steam.
damn bro Gaben's propaganda really got to you huh
Might as well never have existed anyway.
Yeah fuck everyone who plays on consoles
Hell yeah