Alan Wake II

[1998]

Has Remedy had a single success since Max Payne? The only game I even hear about is Alan Wake 1 as a sort of cult classic that underperformed. How do they still exist as a company?

Pretty sure Control sold quite well...

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Has Remedy had a single success since Max Payne? The only game I even hear about is Alan Wake 1 as a sort of cult classic that underperformed. How do they still exist as a company?

Pretty sure Control sold quite well...

It sold ok. It had a slow start but sold 4 million units after multiple sales and being on PlayStation Plus and I believe gamepass which is probably why it has that inflated number.

Not to mention Epic Games store partly payed for its development cost for being an Epic store exclusive.

Honestly I’m really surprised how they continue to get investors when there games fail to make a profit.

[Segata]

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[Unhelpful Contrarian]

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Why Tencent keeps funding Remedy will remain life’s greatest mysteries.

[Vergil]

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Self aware poking fun or delusion masterclass? Impossible to tell.

[Rand]

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Why Tencent keeps funding Remedy will remain life’s greatest mysteries.

There's no mystery.
It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

From the latest DLC

Why Tencent keeps funding Remedy will remain life’s greatest mysteries.

There's no mystery.
It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

Sam Lake is laughing that he’s getting paid to make **** games no matter how bad it flops.It’s hard to believe that this was the same man who made Max Payne 1&2.

[gerey]

It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

It's also why the content of ***** TikTok (science, engineering, history etc.) is so vastly different from that of Western TikTok (******, *******, mental illness, feminism, suicide etc.).

****** recognize that leftism is a destructive religion and a potent weapon you can wield against your enemies, so long as you have the necessary instruments in place to contain the inevitable cross-contamination.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

From the latest DLC

Why Tencent keeps funding Remedy will remain life’s greatest mysteries.

There's no mystery.
It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

Tell me more how african chinese wanting to destroy murica.

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[Faceless_Sentinel]

Holy ****! Look how Tencent owns remedy and fund their propaganda! What a horror!

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[rusty_shackleford]

From the latest DLC

Why Tencent keeps funding Remedy will remain life’s greatest mysteries.

There's no mystery.
It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

Tell me more how african chinese wanting to destroy murica.

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You seem to be uninformed of how Chinese corporations work.
Naspers(Prosus) shares are non-voting shares. Owning voting shares in a Chinese corporation is extremely difficult if you aren't Chinese.

[1998]

There's no mystery.
It benefits the CCP to demoralize the men of the west with third wave feminism (misandrism) and the woke faggy alphabet commie retardation.
The CCP runs Tencent. When it feels like intervening, they do what they're told.

Tell me more how african chinese wanting to destroy murica.

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You seem to be uninformed of how Chinese corporations work.
Naspers(Prosus) shares are non-voting shares. Owning voting shares in a Chinese corporation is extremely difficult if you aren't Chinese.

Tencent only own 15% voting shares of remedy...

[rusty_shackleford]

Tell me more how african chinese wanting to destroy murica.

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You seem to be uninformed of how Chinese corporations work.
Naspers(Prosus) shares are non-voting shares. Owning voting shares in a Chinese corporation is extremely difficult if you aren't Chinese.

Tencent only own 15% voting shares of remedy...

Probably. I'm not one of the people who think the pozz is being funded by shady money groups, but rather being pushed hard by the developers themselves.

But I will say that Tencent is given a major pass for owning a minority stake in companies where e.g., Blackrock would get the finger pointed at them immediately for the same ownership.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

You seem to be uninformed of how Chinese corporations work.
Naspers(Prosus) shares are non-voting shares. Owning voting shares in a Chinese corporation is extremely difficult if you aren't Chinese.

Tencent only own 15% voting shares of remedy...

Probably. I'm not one of the people who think the pozz is being funded by shady money groups, but rather being pushed hard by the developers themselves.

But I will say that Tencent is given a major pass for owning a minority stake in companies where e.g., Blackrock would get the finger pointed at them immediately for the same ownership.

Because Tencent doesn't fund money losing projects based on ideology, when Tencent invest in somebody, there is no immediate commmy praising happening, greedier monetization happening.

[rusty_shackleford]

Tencent only own 15% voting shares of remedy...

Probably. I'm not one of the people who think the pozz is being funded by shady money groups, but rather being pushed hard by the developers themselves.

But I will say that Tencent is given a major pass for owning a minority stake in companies where e.g., Blackrock would get the finger pointed at them immediately for the same ownership.

Because Tencent doesn't fund money losing projects based on ideology, when Tencent invest in somebody, there is no immediate commmy praising happening, angrier monetization happening.

Neither does Blackrock tho. Blackrock's ESG('sustainable') funds are a tiny, tiny minority of all their funds managed — it was 2.56% of their total AUM at its height and has gone down since.

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To be clear, outside of them(i.e., investment firms) making decisions with mega-corporations, I don't think these investment firms care at all. The amount of effort needed to micromanage at this scale would be incredible. The issue is, and has been, the developers pushing this propaganda. Just interact with them on your favorite social media to see it in action.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Probably. I'm not one of the people who think the pozz is being funded by shady money groups, but rather being pushed hard by the developers themselves.

But I will say that Tencent is given a major pass for owning a minority stake in companies where e.g., Blackrock would get the finger pointed at them immediately for the same ownership.

Because Tencent doesn't fund money losing projects based on ideology, when Tencent invest in somebody, there is no immediate commmy praising happening, angrier monetization happening.

Neither does Blackrock tho. Blackrock's ESG('sustainable') funds are a tiny, tiny minority of all their funds managed — it was 2.56% of their total AUM at its height and has gone down since.

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To be clear, outside of them(i.e., investment firms) making decisions with mega-corporations, I don't think these investment firms care at all. The amount of effort needed to micromanage at this scale would be incredible. The issue is, and has been, the developers pushing this propaganda. Just interact with them on your favorite social media to see it in action.

They are both to blame. Why Blackrock need to push this agenda? Hide their military contract on taxpayers money schemes? Some awful ideology they need to push? We will never know for sure, but they found perfect contractors for this: modern developers who care about putting ****** and lgtv in games more than good salaries, good working conditions, rationed working hours, paid vacation, sick leave and other workers' rights.

Instead of dealing with this two problems, people go fo some "magical communists across the ocean" who want to destroy west! Pathetic cowards who deny the fact that it is their government and their elites doing this to them.

[gerey]

Neither does Blackrock tho. Blackrock's ESG('sustainable') funds are a tiny, tiny minority of all their funds managed

That's ******** though. If all they cared about was making profits, they wouldn't be investing 2-3% of their assets (which is still a massive, massive quantity of resources relative to their sheer size) enforcing policies that have a proven track record of losing money. They'd be rewarding developers that release games that make a profit (which are literally products completely opposite of what BlackRock incentivizes devs to create).

You say it's the developers that push this ****, and that's true, but you also fail to mention that BlackRock's ESG is one of the major reasons activists get hired by game developers/publishers (and companies in other creative mediums) in the first place, eventually saturating the whole corporate structure and self-policing themselves with no need from BlackRock to micromanage them. This is Gramsci's cultural hegemony being put into practice on the micro-scale.

We have the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, on record, saying that one of the major goals of his Jewish organization is forcing behaviors.

[gerey]

We will never know for sure

Quite literally a conundrum for the ages, a mystery we will never be able to solve.

[rusty_shackleford]

Neither does Blackrock tho. Blackrock's ESG('sustainable') funds are a tiny, tiny minority of all their funds managed

That's ******** though. If all they cared about was making profits, they wouldn't be investing 2-3% of their assets (which is still a massive, massive quantity of resources relative to their sheer size) enforcing policies that have a proven track record of losing money. They'd be rewarding developers that release games that make money (which are literally products completely opposite of what BlackRock incentivizes devs to create).

You say it's the developers that push this ****, and that's true, but you also fail to mention that BlackRock's ESG is one of the major reasons activists get hired by game developers/publishers (and companies in other creative mediums) in the first place, eventually saturating the whole corporate structure and self-policing themselvesm with no need from BlackRock to micromanage them. This is Gramsci's cultural hegemony being put into practice on the micro-scale.

We have the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, on record, saying that one of the major goals of his Jewish organization is forcing behaviors.

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, cut its support for shareholder proposals linked to environmental and social issues to a fresh low of 4.1% in the most recent annual general meeting season, it said on Wednesday.
Despite the number of environmental and social-related proposals increasing year on year to 493 from 455, BlackRock said most had been rejected for much the same reasons as in previous years.
In 2023 it supported 6.7% of such proposals, down sharply from its support for 47% of resolutions in 2020-21, though the number of resolutions filed with companies since that high water mark had risen sharply.

I wonder how many of you are aware that ESG was considered to actually be profitable based on a highly-cited peer-reviewed paper that was later found out to be ********?
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/ ... inability/

P.S. According to Google, the original article, “Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality,” has been cited 861 times. How is it that such a flawed paper has so many citations? Part of this might be the instant credibility conveyed by the Harvard affiliations of the authors, and part of this might be the doing-well-by-doing-good happy-talk finding that “investments in sustainability issues are shareholder-value enhancing.” Kinda like that fishy claim about unionization and stock prices or the claims of huge economic benefits from early childhood stimulation. Forking paths allow you to get the message you want from the data, and this is a message that many people want to hear.

It has been cited 1,798 times as of this post btw.

[Rand]

Neither does Blackrock tho. Blackrock's ESG('sustainable') funds are a tiny, tiny minority of all their funds managed

That's ******** though. If all they cared about was making profits, they wouldn't be investing 2-3% of their assets (which is still a massive, massive quantity of resources relative to their sheer size) enforcing policies that have a proven track record of losing money. They'd be rewarding developers that release games that make a profit (which are literally products completely opposite of what BlackRock incentivizes devs to create).

You say it's the developers that push this ****, and that's true, but you also fail to mention that BlackRock's ESG is one of the major reasons activists get hired by game developers/publishers (and companies in other creative mediums) in the first place, eventually saturating the whole corporate structure and self-policing themselves with no need from BlackRock to micromanage them. This is Gramsci's cultural hegemony being put into practice on the micro-scale.

We have the CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, on record, saying that one of the major goals of his Jewish organization is forcing behaviors.

Correct. It's not the direct investment in shares that are the issue.
That is simply the cost for them to get direct access to the executives and board.
The REAL push is by investment funding.
For some bizarre reason, a lot of companies nowadays are basically illiquid when it comes to their projects.
They don't have the capital on hand to outlay to start a project.
This is for a number of reasons, but the prime one is that they invest all their profits in securities and such where they will be penalized if they withdraw.
The bankers encourage this because they allow it to be used for security for the loans they give them to initiate new projects.
IF they have the right ESG score.
That's where they push the woke ******** and how they push for woke **** and useless people to get in the company employment for the correct tickboxes on the diversity report.
Why they want the companies destroyed is beyond my comprehension. Commie crap?
(I understand why the CCP wants western companies to choke themselves on this **** and fail.)

[gerey]

LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - BlackRock (BLK.N), the world's biggest asset manager, cut its support for shareholder proposals linked to environmental and social issues to a fresh low of 4.1% in the most recent annual general meeting season, it said on Wednesday.

I call ******** on this. They're not downsizing ESG, they're merely rebranding it as something else now that too many gentiles have become aware of what the label actually stands for.

Why they want the companies destroyed is beyond my comprehension. Commie crap?

Larry Fink literally spells it out for people - it's because he wants the peons to believe certain things and behave certain ways.

As for why he is trying to brainwash all of us, it's because he's a Jew, and that's what **** have been trying to do for the past 4000 years.

The motive isn't even that nefarious, the Jew simply reasons that a multicultural, divided, low-trust society is the safest and most profitable state of affairs for them, considering their strong in-group preference. The gentiles are too busy squabbling among themselves to pay attention to what the **** are doing, while the **** are worming their way into financial institutions and seizing control of the capital.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

The motive isn't even that nefarious, the Jew simply reasons that a multicultural, divided, low-trust society is the safest and most profitable state of affairs for them, considering their strong in-group preference. The gentiles are too busy squabbling among themselves to pay attention to what the **** are doing, while the **** are worming their way into financial institutions and seizing control of the capital.

Replace "Jew" with "rich elites" or "oligarchs" and meaning will be the same.

[wndrbr]

Business Review JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2024

At the end of the quarter, Alan Wake 2 had recouped most of its development and marketing expenses.

the game still didn't break even.

[1998]

Business Review JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2024

At the end of the quarter, Alan Wake 2 had recouped most of its development and marketing expenses.

the game still didn't break even.

I thought Epic pretty much funded that whole thing?

[wndrbr]

Business Review JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2024

At the end of the quarter, Alan Wake 2 had recouped most of its development and marketing expenses.

the game still didn't break even.

I thought Epic pretty much funded that whole thing?

I assume it's the reason Remedy wait for the game to recoup the expenses. Perhaps right now all the income goes to Epic, and Remedy will only start receiving their share once the game becomes profitable.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Business Review JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2024

At the end of the quarter, Alan Wake 2 had recouped most of its development and marketing expenses.

the game still didn't break even.

In a non clown world game studios would reevaluate there game when it underperformed in the direction for future games not green lighting sequels.

[Statesman]

Business Review JANUARY-SEPTEMBER 2024



the game still didn't break even.

I thought Epic pretty much funded that whole thing?

I assume it's the reason Remedy wait for the game to recoup the expenses. Perhaps right now all the income goes to Epic, and Remedy will only start receiving their share once the game becomes profitable.

Considering the report states that "Alan Wake 2 did not yet generate royalties", I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some Hollywood-tier accounting going on.

[wndrbr]

I thought Epic pretty much funded that whole thing?

I assume it's the reason Remedy wait for the game to recoup the expenses. Perhaps right now all the income goes to Epic, and Remedy will only start receiving their share once the game becomes profitable.

Considering the report states that "Alan Wake 2 did not yet generate royalties", I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some Hollywood-tier accounting going on.

based Tim Sweeney swindling the Finns out of their royalties. Rare Epic Games win.

[rusty_shackleford]

Our most trending search query for October was "alan wake 2 white saga mod"

[wndrbr]

https://investors.remedygames.com/relea ... e4872914e5

Alan Wake 2 sales exceeded 2 million units and the game started to accrue royalties