Hawking Radiation
Member
Its not happening bro. PS6 and Xbox Next or whatever wil not have disk drives. Physical is going the way of the dinosaur.
Digital is the future. Embrace it OR
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Alan Wake 2 Will Be Digital Only - Keep Price at $59.99 for Consoles and $49.99 for PC
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Its not happening bro. PS6 and Xbox Next or whatever wil not have disk drives. Physical is going the way of the dinosaur.
Digital is the future. Embrace it OR
nightmare-slain
Member
Is it finally happening? 
Thank you Epic for being the first to go all digital. Someone needed to do it. The game trailer didn't interest me but might pick it up to support this change towards an all digital future. Hopefully other publishers see how well it does and decide to ditch physical releases for their own games.
Physical has been dying for a while now but it needs to die completely and for good.
LOL at the people saying they won't buy it. Well don't? But when it starts happening to more games you're gonna need to make a decision: suck it up and step into the future OR give up on gaming.
If you hadn't noticed yet... Sony and Microsoft are preparing people for digital only future. Last gen Xbox released an all digital console. This gen BOTH Xbox and PlayStation released an all digital console and Sony are rumoured to be releasing a PS5 with removable drive as soon as this year. Now, who wants to guess what will happen next gen? It's quite possible that we might get no console with support for playing discs.
There is zero point in buying physical games. It's time we get rid of them.
Plenty of people will happily buy it digitally and people who really want to play the game won't care if it's digital only. The only people who won't buy it are the ones stuck in 2005 and refuse to accept the future.
Thank you Epic for being the first to go all digital. Someone needed to do it. The game trailer didn't interest me but might pick it up to support this change towards an all digital future. Hopefully other publishers see how well it does and decide to ditch physical releases for their own games.
Physical has been dying for a while now but it needs to die completely and for good.
LOL at the people saying they won't buy it. Well don't? But when it starts happening to more games you're gonna need to make a decision: suck it up and step into the future OR give up on gaming.
If you hadn't noticed yet... Sony and Microsoft are preparing people for digital only future. Last gen Xbox released an all digital console. This gen BOTH Xbox and PlayStation released an all digital console and Sony are rumoured to be releasing a PS5 with removable drive as soon as this year. Now, who wants to guess what will happen next gen? It's quite possible that we might get no console with support for playing discs.
There is zero point in buying physical games. It's time we get rid of them.
How is it DOA?
Plenty of people will happily buy it digitally and people who really want to play the game won't care if it's digital only. The only people who won't buy it are the ones stuck in 2005 and refuse to accept the future.
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Fake
Member
Releasing both physical and digital is stone age?
LOL. Trying to understand this logic of 'embrace digital'. No advantage whatsoever.
edit: Seeing a pattern here in some posters behavior in this thread. I guess discussion is no use.
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Fake
Member
Remind my old memory, what is the PS5/Series X bluray max capacity space?
DryvBy
Member
Epic has an interest in pushing digital only like Steam does. They have a store front. It's also why it's cheaper on PC because it pushes you to their store and offsets the console fee. They want you using their store so they can cut the middle man out.
AREYOUOKAY?
Member
2003? When most of the big name western developers didn't release broken unfinished 100 GB plus maybe another 100 GB for patches or dlc games and still made quality games? Yeah I'd go back to that.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
These people are half-witted morons who have some sort of vested emotional or monetary interest in digital only and less consumer rights.
Hawking Radiation
Member
Everything will be going digital at some point whether you like it or not.
Don't matter what what I or someone else says. That's the future we're headed towards.
Hawking Radiation
Member
ProtoByte
Member
When it comes to single player games, that's actually not the case.
I really do believe this is going to have a negative impact on this game's sales.
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Rockondevil
Member
Enjoyed the first but I’ll be waiting until I get this for free now. I’m sure someday it’ll be given away by somebody.
Dr. Claus
Vincit qui se vincit
Nope. Just not a moron. I am all for preference and if someone prefers digital? Great! Choice is good.
People who celebrate the death of physical and push for digital? Mentally incompetent baboons.
existensmaximum
Member
Okay, then count me out.
Dirk Benedict
Member
Epic exclusive
I know, I know. They're publishing it, though. =/
Fart Knight
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Gamezone
Gold Member
Agreed.
100 GB. That's why games like Jedi Survivor was released on a worthless coaster.
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GenericUser
Member
Alan Wake 2 looks way better then the first game. Before this trailer, I wrote this game off as some overartsy euro trash, but the trailer gave me hope. I will keep an eye on this one.
GHound
Member
Always follow the money.
They made Alan Wake black?
Portugeezer
Member
Physical still accounts for a large portion of new release sales, with no option people will download, but it will hurt sales.
Terrible. Published by Epic, this is not a small indie company.
Terrible. Published by Epic, this is not a small indie company.
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xrnzaaas
Member
Epic are the ones who should be blamed for this decision, I don't think Remedy wanted to go all-digital since all of their previous games had physical releases (including AW1 remaster).
Jedi Survivor could've been easily released on 2 discs like Cyberpunk or FF7R. It was merely cost-cutting from EA combined with the build not being ready for launch.
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Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
You say that like you know more about how products sell than the people selling them.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but nobody I play with cares about physical now. Around here, a fair number of people care, sure, but I'm not sure that's reflected in the wider world. I think the damage that not having a physical release will have is likely minimal, because at least some physical sales won't be from people taking a stand against digital only releases.
Boss Mog
Member
No, the FBI lady you play as. Her character (Saga Anderson) was in Quantum Break along with Sam Lake's who seems unchanged in Alan Wake 2
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Famipan
Member
Yess! Finally someone gets what I have been saying all the time: Having only digital games in the loop prevents resales and allows for lower digital prices.
I guess this may be a first market test subsidized by Sony and others to monitor what happens if they go all digital
I guess this may be a first market test subsidized by Sony and others to monitor what happens if they go all digital
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LiquidJensen
Banned
Ok, fair enough. I didn't realise Saga Andersen was in Quantum Break.
LiquidJensen
Banned
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
WTF, Remedy? Why there's no disc versions? Jesus fuckin' Christ... It means there's no way for me to buy the game for PS5 cuz I don't want to deal with VPNs and other BS and I'm not buying digital games for consoles ever and never will. EGS is simply not an option out of principle.
Come the fuck on, man...
None of this is a valid reasons to abandon physical releases. Since when having a box, a cover and a disc is the reasons why new games are $70 now? PC don't need physical release so fuck it, but consoles do need them cuz there's a lot of people still buying physical versions.
Come the fuck on, man...
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Melon Husk
Member
I'm OK with digital on PC and I've been OK with that for a decade. On consoles you're kinda locked in as there are no guarantees.
Mr.Phoenix
Member
To all the people complaining about EGS only on PC....
did you guys just somehow miss that Epic is publishing this game?
Is half-life Alyx in the epic store... I swear is stuff like this that makes me worry that maybe the majority of GAF are really the ones that are becoming out of touch.
And o the digital on release... I swear I don't get gamers.... PC gamers have been digital only for almost two decades now. And now, a publisher, a PC-centric publisher mind you, releases a game digitally, but actually does something that a lot of us here have been asking for, make the launch price of digital games cost less than what a disc game costs... and here we are complaining?
wtf am I seeing...?
I wish more studios do what Epic has done.... and this begs the question if every game did this, but also had a $10 more expensive physical game... how many people would really be buying that physical game over the digital one?
did you guys just somehow miss that Epic is publishing this game?
Is half-life Alyx in the epic store... I swear is stuff like this that makes me worry that maybe the majority of GAF are really the ones that are becoming out of touch.
And o the digital on release... I swear I don't get gamers.... PC gamers have been digital only for almost two decades now. And now, a publisher, a PC-centric publisher mind you, releases a game digitally, but actually does something that a lot of us here have been asking for, make the launch price of digital games cost less than what a disc game costs... and here we are complaining?
wtf am I seeing...?
I wish more studios do what Epic has done.... and this begs the question if every game did this, but also had a $10 more expensive physical game... how many people would really be buying that physical game over the digital one?
GHG
Gold Member
Plot twist: we saw the whole game.
This being a "straight to dvd" equivalent doesn't fill me with confidence.
Anyone pre-ordering this is a brave soul.
damiank
Member
Epic shit
Noxxera
Member
Sorry to break it to you, but games aren't going down in sizes since they're getting more complex these days with motion capture for one example. And we have something called 4K TVs now and you can have a look at the file sizes of movies in 4K etc. Yeah storage sizes for games ain't going down bro. Fact.
But hey you can keep yourself to the next Ori game, or Tunic cause that's what you're saying indirectly you want. I'm sure there are games out there with less then 10gb space, but yeah, they're not gonna be AAA games prolly so you really don't have anything to complaing about with your logic. You certainly shouldn't even be commenting on this thread if you think Alan Wake 2 looks like it can run on less then 10 gigs or whatever.
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Boss Mog
Member
Lol this is not AAA.
harry mason 1989
Banned
Terrible
I hate videogames
I hate videogames
Gexxy1
Member
You can sell the discs.
