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Remedy Community Highlights Petition to Save Alan Wake PC
by Nick Breckon, Aug 03, 2009 11:18am PDTA petition to Microsoft demanding an explanation for the "cancellation" of the PC version of Alan Wake was seemingly endorsed by the official Remedy community outlet today with a link on its official Twitter feed.
Written by the fans at alan-wake.de, the petition asks for Alan Wake publisher Microsoft to release a statement on why it "abruptly cancelled" work on the PC version, and requests the company to "strongly" reconsider its position.
Alan Wake was announced as a PC and Xbox 360 title in 2005, with the PC version's DirectX 10 support highly publicized at the time. Alan Wake PC has since been dropped from the launch plans by Microsoft, and Remedy says its fate is "up in the air."
The developer recently commented on the PC version's status last month, saying that it is now too late for it to be released alongside the Xbox 360 version, and reiterating that the ultimate fate of the PC title is in Microsoft's hands.
"Remedy has a deep heritage in PC gaming and would love to see a PC version available to its PC followers," said the company. "Ultimately however this decision lies with our publisher."
Shacknews has contacted Microsoft on the matter, but received no reply.
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Microsoft have it in for PC gaming. The almighty dollar.
Long live PC gaming.
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I will not buy Alan Wake for 360 new. I will only purchase a used copy of this game. I'm tired of game companies announcing how fantastic their new game is going to be and then pushing back the release for over five years, and then delivering a neutered version. That's right, five years for Alan Wake, the PC Game that Wasn't. They've taken more of my time day-dreaming about it and reading the occasional news snippet (they add up over FIVE YEARS) than it will take to complete the game.
I had a lot of similar anger over Left 4 Dead, which I continuously hyped among my friends despite its two year delay. Then, after finally delivering a half-finished game (albeit the best half-finished game of the year), they dick us over with L4D2 just a year later.
It gets tiresome: the delays, the turd sandwiches, the giant douches that run the companies, and worst of all the most evil persons known to man, marketers.
I'll just vote with my dollars and buy used. Sorry Remedy, you're a victim of yourselves and Microsoft.
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Money wins, and PC just dont got it no more.
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The problem is that they came too late to the party. Valve's STEAM is everything GFWL should be and isn't. GFWL continues to be a hindrance to games such as DoW2. It's just a badly designed dumbed down piece of shit, designed with a console gamers idea of how things should work.
The PC is the thinking man's gaming platform, the king of FPS and RTS (arguably the 2 most popular game genres) and home to epic RPG's like Baldurs Gate, KotOR, Oblivion, etc.
Microsoft are truely an enemy of PC gaming..............all because they want us to buy XBOX's, well you can fuck off, I'm not buying one.
If they asked me to PAY for GFWL I'd laugh in their face and point them in Valve's direction so they could laugh in their face.
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This war is getting on my nerves. Something tells me that creating a war with PC gamers will fuck them over in the long-run.
I got a gaming survey from Microsoft last week, and I answered "PC platform only". I'm guessing that nothing will come of it, but they can't say that there aren't any PC gamers out there.
We're here, and we want PC games. PC games. Not knock-offs, excuses, or delays.
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I know I am one person but this is definitely a sale you will be losing if it's only coming to the 360. At this point it's kin to saying DNF is an xbox exclusive.
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It's way long overdue for a competitive operating system to get as much attention as say firefox gets in the browser wars.
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