“Step away from the billion-dollar company, kid.”
Recently, there was a small, concentrated storm online after Cromwelp AKA Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian, criticised Epic Games for its approach in Alan Wake 2’s publication. Douse quote tweeted a post by Epic’s boss Tim Sweeney, which said that both gamers and developers win by having Steam and the Epic Games Store as options to purchase video games.
“I understand Epic entirely funded Alan Wake 2 but this altruistic pro-developer talk doesn’t sit well when Remedy seemingly went into financial crisis because they couldn’t tap Steam for AW2 sales”, Douse wrote, claiming that potentially hundreds of millions in revenue were lost because Alan Wake 2 missed PC gaming’s biggest platform.
