Alan Wake 2

[ZXSpectrum]

Is anyone buying this? It out in just over a month (27th of October)

As much as i loved the original and i was REALLY surprised when i played through Control and Remedy dropped that its based in the same universe, there is no way that i am paying £50 for a game that i cannot sell on after i have finished it. The decision to go only digital is a joke to be honest and will probably be a bad one for sales. Some people are happy with a digital copy but i am not. While i understand that they say not printing a disk, case and artwork will save them money, the game still costs £50 more than a lot of other recent releases that have a physical copy. If it had a physical copy at £50 i would have already put my preorder in but now i will not be purchasing until its less that £20 or on Plus.

Pity really.

 

[ZXSpectrum]

Yeah even then it’s too bloody expensive for a game that has no value once you have completed. More recently I have been keeping games rather than selling them as the games I have picked up are games I want to play through multiple times (RE4 Remake, Jedi Survivor, GOW Ragnarok) they were cheaper to buy the physical game and I also have options to sell them on. Me and my colleague at work also often take turns in purchasing a game and swapping when played but you can’t do that with digital only. I can understand with multiplayer games like COD being like that but single player games… nope.

I, like I am sure a lot of fans of the original game, will show my displeasure to the devs by not buying at launch and pick it up when it’s a lot cheaper, they put on PSPlus or they cave and put out some physical copies. I can’t see the latter happening so they will be a cause of the games poor sales should that happen.