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Remedy Has Recouped 'Most' of the Development and Marketing Expenses for Alan Wake 2 (www.ign.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shame it didn't do well, I thought it was great.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe more people would be willing to use Steam competitors if they weren't all absolute garbage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can barely run steam and the games I bought on steam at the same time, which is required for most games. Steam disabled certain features and bloated the software -- their launcher takes more resources than actual games. AAA games. (From a decade ago, but still.)

Other launchers might be garbage but the bar seems to be pretty low. Only thing anyone can say is "get a better computer" because in their mind that is a great rebuttal to "why is a game tied to a launcher which takes up 4x as many resources as my entire OS?"