Remedy's message to Alan Wake PC pirates: "enjoy the story!"

Eurogamer- Remedy has a message to those who intend to pirate the PC version of Alan Wake: enjoy the story!

Alan Wake launches on Steam tomorrow nearly two years after it launched on Xbox 360. It goes live on other digital platforms, such as Origin, in a couple of weeks. A retail boxed version launches on 2nd March courtesy of Nordic Games.

With Alan Wake hitting the PC both digitally and at retail, and it being a single-player only game, Remedy is bracing itself for a tidal wave of illegal downloads. But it's not too bothered.

[Snookies12]

Well at least they're nice about it. Just because someone does you wrong, doesn't mean you should retaliate. :)

[mastahmind]

maybe where you live lol XD

[da_2pacalypse]

Great game, if there are any PS3 players who have not played it yet, I really recommend you try it out for PC (if your machine is half decent). I strongly suggest you buy it, Remedy is a great developer.

[ardivt]

remedy just should have made a ps3 version

[chaos-lockheart]

I should just steal all your games then, thank you!!!

[ninjahunter]

You should go burn copies of all his movies too.

[SilentNegotiator]

@Ninja
He should take all of Remedy's Spielberg movies and books. They'd be lost, lol.

Oh, gee, Remedy. I'll TRY to enjoy it. But it was my understanding that it could only be enjoyed on big comfy couches* (and we all know you can't play PC games on couches /sarcasm). But if that has changed now that Microsoft gave you the green light, I suppose I'll TRY to enjoy a pirated copy of the scaled down game that we were supposed to be enjoying on the PC a decade ago.

SMH

* http://www.destructoid.com/...
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EDIT: PC gamers WERE screwed out of the game originally, they DID scale down the game, Microsoft DID claim that Alan Wake wasn't 'right' for the PC (because they supposedly don't interact with couches), and my first sentence/joke was poking fun at their love for Spielberg. You can disagree all you like, but the whole situation is FULL of irony.

[jeeves86]

@SilentNegotiator - it wasn't Remedy that came up with that excuse, it was Microsoft. Now that Remedy has the publishing rights for it, it can go forth with the PC version.

[SilentNegotiator]

@Jeeves

You are correct, and I didn't mean to make that impression. I even changed part of the sentence to try to make it more clear, but it still might not be completely clear. The link I provided even says that Microsoft said it.

Sorry for any confusion.

[GrumpyVeteran]

If you could make a copy of all my games without me losing anything physical (i.e; the way pirating currently works) then I'd happily let you.

[scrambles]

studies show if you treat your player base less like sheep and more like people theyll pirate your game less. So therefore treating them nicely and mayhaps understanding why they pirate your game will help decrease the amount of pirating.

stealing from big mean company = "why not?"

stealing from nice company = "... well maybe i wont"

Guilt trips lol also some respect might be there

[Sarcasm]

I think this is pretty fair to be honest. Why support a company that shafts you versus a company that is more open ended and supportive of the consumers.

[NeoTribe]

there's a study for that?

[DeadIIIRed]

That sounds legitimate, but can you cite these studies? I'm curious for the sake of the story and I have a paper due in a month that I could use those studies for.

[Zachmo182]

I don't think the PC gamers were in that study.

I'm pretty sure studies show PC gamers pirate the most games.

[scrambles]

@DeadIIIRed Ill try to find em its been a while and also if Neo Tribe reads this. its basically when they took a look at the piracy rates of games and how the companies tried to prevent it. The trend started to show.

[Nitrowolf2]

@DeadIIIRed

can't find a story, but at my retail stores and most likey all of them we are not allowed to stop people from stealing, we can only confront them and use lines that aren't fully direct, but they know we know. Most cases they drop place the item or purchase it.

[kevnb]

although talking about piracy in any way is free publicity.

[WitWolfy]

@Snookies

Or it could be sarcasm for a certain bug to not let them go further then a certain stage?

[Snookies12]

Haha didn't think about it that way. "Hey guys, enjoy the story!" They get to a certain part and it keeps crashing on them. That I must admit, would be funny.

[WitWolfy]

Yeah it would be :P .I remember on N4G last year a certain game did this, where a certain boss had God mode so you couldn't beat him on the pirated version. Was quite genius on the developers part hehehe

[pixelsword]

@Snookies:

It's called turning the other cheek and I agree with you.

[SonyPS360]

Thieves deserve pity, nothing more.

[paddystan]

I have the Limited Collector's Edition for my Xbox, but gonna buy it to PC tommorrow anyway because the game is just so good. :)

[fluffydelusions]

I'll buy it on a Steam sale because I already played the 360 version

[BattleTorn]

Same. I really enjoyed Alan Wake on Xbox360, but I can't bring myself to pay full price again for it on PC.

You also have to consider that there will be Alan Wake: American Nightmare out as well. Which I will be buying.

[Mikhail]

*clap, clap* Nonetheless, screw pirates of good developers.

[SAE]

but pirate games like call of duty is ok :) ..

even though i buy all my games in release day , i agree with the pirates , they are stealing us , they make the game then put it in a 3-5 dollar disc then sell it for 60 or 70 dollar , that's stealinging , that's why i agree with the pirates but i want to play online that's why i don't pirate games , if pirate games have online i wouldn't be buying anything ...

but i like supporting the good developers , only the good ones ..

[SonyPS360]

Dress it up and justify it all you want. Pirates are still thieves.

[gatormatt80]

You're not just buying a blank disc though are you?? You're paying for the content on said disc, which costs much more than 3 or so dollars to make.

[Cosmit]

"i agree with the pirates , they are stealing us , they make the game then put it in a 3-5 dollar disc then sell it for 60 or 70 dollar , that's stealinging"

How is that stealing? You need to factor in all the cost that went in to making the game. As in manhours, advertising, etc. Wether or not 60 or 70 dollars is overpriced is another thing. But selling it for only 3-5 dollars is pretty much little to no profit at all.

[SAE]

then why the games get cheaper to reach even 5 dollars ! it means it doesn't cost them alot , if it really worth the price in release day or even a year later then they shouldn't make it cheaper but that proves that it doesn't cost them alot...

they can have profit if they want , but not taking 5x the price or even more

[Voxelman]

I will be picking this up

[CrimsonEngage]

PC players can cry and moan about how consoles are holding them back but by pirating games you are only hurting yourselves. This is why we can't have nice things.

[Thecraft1989]

360 version was pirated a million times so what is your point ?

[dark-hollow]

Yeah because piracy hadn't harm the PSP in any way /s

[TeaDouble_E]

PS3 says hi

[dark-hollow]

PSP with the lowest hardware to software ratio on the recent years says howdy.

[fluffydelusions]

That whole comment assumes ALL PC gamers are pirates...false!

[TheGameFoxJTV]

EXACTLY, my steam account is worth over $1498.15 USD. Yup, all us PC gamers are pirates.

[BlackBusterCritic]

Hey CrimsonEngage, what you fail to realize is that the USED GAME MARKET is worse than piracy on the PC. I really shouldn't have to explain why, so I'm really giving you some credit here thinking that you'll think about it and understand.

[vuzuki]

No it's not.

ECONOMICS 101 : The 60$ value of a game disc contains the value of the game itself PLUS the value of your potential resale. If you take the right to resell away the game is worth less. For some people, that will mean the game is not worth 60$ anymore and result in less new sales. Hence, the end of the used games market could mean much less new sales (at least at those prices), whereas less piracy can only mean more sales.

Both issues are completely unrelated even though publishers would like you to think otherwise.

[FriedGoat]

You're assuming that if people didn't pirate a game they would buy it, you are wrong. Screw remedy anyway, this is half the game it was going to be thanks to them bumming Microsoft.

[sllshrm]

@vuzuki

I'll agree to your "class" but you are forgetting that many of the PC games are 60$ too

Without any option to resell

The thing with rentals and piracy is that in case of both, the money doesn't go to the developers/publishers and thats why you see DRMs and Online passes now.

[vuzuki]

@FriedGoat
I'm not assuming anything. If at least one person who pirate would buy then less piracy can only mean more sale (granted, there is also a cases where the pirated copy serve as a demo etc. but let's keep it simple) Which is not the case for used games since it also decreases the value of the new game.

@sllshrm
Actually
1. games are always less expensive on PC especially on Steam
2. Retails games sell way less on PC than on console
which kinda makes my point

What you don't understand is that where the money goes is not what's important on the long run. The used game market enhances the value of new games. Take it away and, in the end, you take away from developers.

[kevnb]

piracy, rentals, used game sales.. publishers cant win in this current market really. And these pr statements have nothing to do with devs.

[Dread]

excellent game.

for those who did not play this on their 360, i highly recommend it.

peace

[KillerPwned]

Steam sale bro steam sale...

[dirthurts]

I'm waiting :)

[FuchiBOT]

They should just release it at a lower price point on day 1.

[Kran]

Looking forward to this for sure :) Loved the game on the 360!

[rattletop]

if i were the dev i would say "FU pirates!"

[Hufandpuf]

Then they'd just go pirate some more.

[SKUD]

<-------------------------- ---
I remember when I thought the world of this game too. Then I played it =/.

[Megaton]

lol, Skud.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[IM_KINECTED]

It's a shame when small time developers have their games pirated so much. Alan Wake was already pirated on the 360 around 3 million times, I can imagine it getting a similar number on PC. Imagine if people actually supported games and developers like these?

Just kind of a shame in my opinion...

[Kran]

1.1 million....

[neogeo]

$50 or $60 for a game? a GAME? I pirate in my own way. Wait for the $19.99 bargain bin. Stop making so many big budget games and sell them for less. I don't need 90 billion dollar cut scenes and movie star voice acting in every game, Just a few.

[Grap]

So u basically ask for COD game.. if games would be like what u ask then i will leave it for good..

[Kran]

The game is gonna cost you $29.99 on the PC... not $50 or $60. Hardly a price to Pirate for.

[chanmasta]

With the amount of awesome sales on Steam, there's no point in pirating PC games. Though, some people I've seen on Steam's forums do if no demo is available. I don't pirate PC games, but I have to agree with that aspect.
You should be able to test the game out for yourself before giving away your money, even if the game is 75% off. A demo should come with every game.

[beastlysensation]

i pirated alan wake on deadbox, and tomorrow i am buying it for pc. Two copies to be exact. And yes, i hope MS puts that anti used games stuff on their new xbox so all the console cry babies can see what we go through with drm. You say used market is not as bad as piracy, i say its worse. Not a single cent to developers and the possibility of a re buy is not there. Hell, i pirated a lot of pc games and 90 percent of them i ended up buying. Now, i dont even bother with piracy.

[BattleTorn]

Did you just call the Xbox 360 "deadbox"?

*glares*

[Eyesoftheraven]

I will buy this only if it runs smoothly. If it turns out like LA Noire on PC has even after today's DX11 update, then I will not buy it. I never illegally download any media.

[Ascalon94]

yeah i own a tardload of PC games but never pirate. Developers need the money for the most part to continue with good content and produce even better sequels. Well most developers... *cough Infinity War cough*

[Bosna1]

Alan Wake is a great game

[Conzul]

"But some people are going to pay for it and some people aren't. At the end of the day for us it's about entertaining as many people as possible." ~Article

Class....more points for them in my book.

[Hicken]

Some dude came into my store today, looking for free crap. Free posters, free games, free whatever.

Then he asked me for a 1000-series PSP "so I can crack it and pirate all the games."

When I explained to him that developers stopped making games for PSP because of that, he replied, "I don't care. I don't pay anything for ANY games. As long as I've got the internet, my games are free."

I made him get out.

[clevernickname]

I hope everyone enjoys the next in-game Verizon ad.

[ShabbaRanks]

you forgot Lincoln and Energizer... Oh ya and the Xbox360 on the desk

... Did I forget any more ads ?

[gigreen]

Enjoy the story...

...while you wait for mail from our lawyers.

[pody]

I will! Thanks Remedy! :)

[smashcrashbash]

The only reason why anyone is 'nice' about piracy is that it is too hard to control or stop. If someone could find a permanent way to shut you out for good you would see how fast and how many 'nice' companies would jump to do it. Most of them probably would sue all of you and string up the person responsible for it if they could do it.Just because i can't legally kick your @$$ for doing it doesn't mean I wouldn't do it if I could.Remedy is probably saying this through gritted teeth and thinking 'Yeah go ahead you leeching, thieving bastards'

@ UninformedInformer. Nope. The more you act nicely the more people take advantage of you. You think any company being nice will stop people from saving a few bucks by pirating anything? You think anyone will say 'Remedy is such a nice company, I think I won't pirate their game'? Sorry, a business's main goal is for making profit not making friends.If my goal was making friends I would be bankrupt in a few months.

[JeepGamer]

The problem is that you will never find people more prone to being hyper critical of a game and saying it sucks than the people who didn't have to pay for it.

I'm dead serious, I know people who pirate nearly everything and almost without exception "Yeah, I played that, it sucks", doesn't matter what it is.

People who pay for nothing appreciate nothing.

[MrJack223]

You are correct. I haven't pirated any games in a while now. Might be up to 5-6 years when I think about it. But I do remember getting very bored very fast when I downloaded. It just gives me a better feeling when I've returned home from Gamestop or whatever and just purchased something I've waited a long time to get my hands on. I do get why people pirate stuff. Games are imo expensive beyond belief so how can you afford all of these great titles coming out? But maybe that's good aswell, maybe not being able to get all of them at once makes you appreciate and work harder on the games you get? I dunno, this was way to complicated considering it's 7 am. I'm going to bed again..

[ShabbaRanks]

I paid 184$ for Conker's Bad Fur Day on the N64 yesterday from eBay ( Game is in box and still has the official seal / price is with shipping 20$ included )... Some may think I'm crazy, maybe I am but all I can say is that they don't make games like that anymore.

If Devs don't want people to pirate, then its very simple. Make good fucking games. I liked Alan Wake, but I didn't pay full price for it, but I did buy it new when the price went down a bit. I'm just not a big fan or supernatural stuff, but I respect Remedy as a company and I wanted to try it out. It turned out to be a pretty good game, but I was glad I didn't pay 60$ for it, since like I said I'm no fan of supernatural in general.

I did pirate games when I was younger, but It was simply because my parents didn't let me buy games lol :( ... Now I always buy my games, but if I think the game isn't worth it, I wont buy or pirate it. I do believe that devs need there money to make better games, but if they make shitty ones they wont be getting my money therefore get you're shit together and stop trying to be like COD , BE INNOVATIVE ( I'm certainly not talking about Remedy lol / Alan Wake is one of the most innovative games I've seen this gen and I cant wait to see what they do in the Future + MaxPayne is in my top10 favorite games of all time :P )

If you never played Alan Wake yet and you are tired of the same games all the time, do yourself a favor and try it out.

[smashcrashbash]

Okami was a great game and no one brought it at all. So that statement about 'just make great games and people will buy them' is crap. Motorstorm PR, R3, Rayman Origins and LBP were all great games and people ignored them. What constitutes a 'good fucking game' as you put it. COD and MW3 are some of the worst games I have ever played and yet the sell like ice cream.

Developers put their heart and soul to make exceptional games and people shoot them down for no reason at all. Trying to make sense of chaotic piracy is pointless. There is no logic behind it.People will find every reason in the world to pirate a game if they really want to.

[iMpuTeD]

makes sense it was the same thing with the witcher 2 i was just gonna pirate it but than i was like these dudes (cd project) are pretty legit i think ill buy their game lol

[ZippyZapper]

Just buy it. I downloaded mine off Live for $30. It's worth the price so get over to Steam.

[FantasyStar]

Do you know if Steam Version has Steamworks and not GFW? It's a big deal to me

[DaReapa]

@FantasyStar

Look down at the "related articles" section of the page...

"Alan Wake Arrives for PC in February, and Won’t Use Games For Windows Live"

[FantasyStar]

Woo, thanks :)

[theeg]

I'll buy it for sure, it's $29.99 and comes with all the main dlc,

let's weigh the options for playing this game;

Xbox360 vs PC

940x540p vs 1920x1080p,1920x1200p,2560x144 0p,2560x1600p
0-2x AA vs 16-64x AA
15-27 frames per second vs 60-120 frames per second

yeah......give me that pc version, of every game, i can hardly play anything except 2d mini games on consoles, when they try to do realistic 3d games, it looks bloody awful, and 7 years old.

[Agent_hitman]

If you want to try the game, pirate it, and if you like it a lot then buy the original version lol... Pirate version is like trying a game if it's awesome or not.

[wolfofashes]

Props for their mature and realistic attitude.

[Picnic]

"But some people are going to pay for it and some people aren't. At the end of the day for us it's about entertaining as many people as possible."

And you don't see how encouraging people who illegally download it to enjoy themselves having done that is a slap in the face for the people who decide to be law abiding and support Remedy with cash so that they are rewarded for their 5 years of work and made more comfortable in being able to create a sequel?

Never flatter the hand that steals from you because, if you do, everybody deserves to think the same way and therefore you would not make a single pound from your game, no matter how great it is.

[Picnic]

And I wish that it remained a totally Xbox 360 exclusive by the way. I am a console gamer and I think that it is an interesting series for the Xbox360- it's like the Xbox360's Heavy Rain equivalent in terms of of telling a mysterious story. Maybe Alan Wake 2 will only be released on whatever Xbox console is out with a PC release delayed.

[caboose32]

Don't be greedy.

[sriki007]

^^they have demo and youtube for that!!!!

[OMEGAZONE]

Don't like people pirating your game Remedy? Then grow a brain cell and stop developing for the PC.

[Moragami]

You're an idiot. they didn't complain about piracy at all, in fact, they said it just goes with the territory. Also, how does a team of game developers need to "grow a brain cell"?!? That doesn't even make sense. Plus, I guarantee that any member on the Remedy team is easily 4 times smarter and better educated than you.

If you don't game on PC, than why the fuck do you care? Are you really so jealous of PC gamers that you just don't want them to exist anymore? Do you wish we were all PC illiterate so we were also forced to buy crappy inferior consoles? Grow the fuck up loser.

[caboose32]

Because the game didnt get pirated over a million times on xbox.

[Tzuno]

They will make enough money even with piracy. You know how the human nature is the more they have the more they want and at the end of the day everyone try to survive in their own way.

[Picnic]

Call me old fashioned but I thought that there was thing called 'art' and 'humility' and 'respect' that went above survival. Every action has a similar effect on the person who does it in the end. If you steal from somebody without having an ounce of real passion and understanding for what they do then something of yourself becomes stolen. When people meet people of real integrity and imagination they are frequently flummoxed by how pure they seem - they either, in their ignorance of spirituality, sincerely regard them as 'childishly naive' or try to control them by treating them as so.

[Braid]

If you treat me nice, I treat you nice. If you force me to install a software on my computer to be able to launch a game which in fact spies my files and reports back to you without even notifying me, I never buy your product. That's as simple as that.

[Krakn3Dfx]

Seriously, F*ck PC pirates. Everyone begs and pleads for Remedy to bring Alan Wake to the PC, and then when it does, they just warez it? Give me a break.

Also, it's too bad this game came out so much later on the PC than the 360. Personally, I bought it on the 360 because they were saying it wasn't ever coming to the PC, and I played it there, and it was awesome (mostly), but I'm not going to buy it again on the PC at this point. So while I think piracy will take a sizable chunk out of PC sales, I think an even bigger chunk will just be people that would have played it on the PC at some point, but ended up getting it on the 360 instead because they were told it was their only option.

Someone needs to figure out a way to curb PC game piracy or it's all going to be MMOs and multiplayer only games that require keys at some point.

[SAE]

love this game :)
i also love gears 1 and fable .

[salsabandana]

I routinely buy full price PC games when I feel they deserve the value (Skyrim, Witcher 2, etc.)

Pirated this on the 360 when it first came out. Couldn't even finish it. A tedious, linear romp in an admittedly beautiful setting that will look amazing on PC. But I can't be arsed with pirating or buying this game for PC.

Just wanted to say this to rep the existence of console piracy because all you turd burglars like to wag your finger at the demonstrably superior PC user base that you are so envious of.

It's ok to be jealous. Just keep playing your sub-HD games and talk how your segment of the market is such a boon to the developers when the pre-owned market is worse than piracy. I'll pirate a game and buy it if the game is worthwhile, but if I buy a pre-owned game, I'll never EVER buy a new copy.

[Moragami]

$30 on Steam for the LCE, I bought it. Then saw that GMG has it for 33%off. :(

Either way, I'm happy to support Remedy for publishing this game for their PC fans.