![]() ![]() Yet the fact that Wake is still around today has perhaps less to do with its cult popularity and more to do with Remedy itself. The franchise has found a niche for itself, thanks in part to its digital success. When you have lots of DLC, there is a high attach rate to the first pack, but then we see a declining number for the rest.”Īlan Wake 2 is coming. And there is already a certain amount of attrition with DLC. Each ‘level’ felt more like an episode of Lost or 24 – there was even a ‘previously on Alan Wake’ at the start of each chapter.Įpisodic delivery was something we considered,” explains Hkkinen.īut at the time it felt too much of a risk to try and be pioneers in a new delivery format. So was releasing Alan Wake as a retail game a mistake? If anything Wake was a title built for the episodic model. So we see what people like and dislike, and then we react. The nice thing that we are seeing with Death Rally is that we have done ten updates based on user feedback. In fact, the PC?game topped the Steam charts and recouped its development costs in just 48 hours, and, according to Hkkinen, the American Nightmare XBLA game has done better”.Ĭould it be that Alan Wake’s future is away from retail altogether?ĭigital is very much in our thinking for the future,” says Hkkinen. #Alan wake 2 petition Pc#The PC release was the result of an online petition, and the title has enjoyed a new lease of life via digital. Narrative experiences have a tendency towards that.Īlan Wake has garnered quite a following. It’s turning into something really positive. People who played it felt the urge to tell their friends. Remedy now claims that the first Alan Wake has sold over 2m units worldwide.Īlan Wake has become a cult classic,” says Hkkinen. And the original title has also been spruced up and released for PC. A spin-off title was released on Xbox Live last month – American Nightmare. #Alan wake 2 petition series#Yet despite this, the series has lived on. Indeed, even Microsoft Studios” Phil Spencer said that Alan Wake didn’t sell as well as we’d have liked”. But out of that competition Alan Wake came second. Red Dead was a freight train monster of a game, and there was a lot of competition. Alan Wake was no exception.Īlan Wake got off to a slow start,” admits Hkkinen. Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption sucked all the money out of the market that month, and top releases – Activision’s Blur, Ubisoft’s new Prince of Persia and THQ’s UFC sequel amongst them – failed to perform. Yet it arrived at the worst time (May 2010). It took five years for Wake to reach shelves, and it was a decent title. So we re-invested that money into our next game, which was Alan Wake.” So, if you believe it could change something and you’d love to bring Nik Collection back, you can sign it here and hope for the best.But our hearts were in making games, not sipping cocktails. ![]() At the time of writing this, over 2000 users have signed the petition. Still, companies like Google usually pay more attention to the users’ needs, so maybe there’s a chance of change after all. Personally, I’ve never believed in the power of petitions, but it may be related to the country I live in and the attitude of companies towards the users. Especially for their important black & white work.Ī company like google who claims to contribute to the perservation of mankind’s heritage by scanning millions of books, should although show some responsibility towards the photographic community, as photographs are a part of mankind’s cultural heritage. ![]() Today, with no real competitor, photographers depend on the Nik Collection and would have been willing to pay, to be able to keep it. #Alan wake 2 petition software#But now that rather seems to have been a move to ruin any competing software developer. Many people were happy when google dropped the price of the Nik Collection from about $500 to $150 and finally gave it away for free. Photographers who use and depend on it for their work now face a situation, where their ability to continue the work and projects may be destroyed with any new version of OS or applications like Lightroom. In 2017 google decided to let the Nik Collection die, as they are only interested in the smart phone app snapseed. Whereas the Nik Collection was an important tool for photographers, especially for creating black and white photographs from digital files using Nik Silver Efex. Snapseed had become one of the most popular photo editing apps in the iTunes App Store. In 2012, google bought Nik Software,bringing the Nik Collection and the popular photo editing app Snapseed into their portfolio. ![]()
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