Alan Wake 2: The Benefits and Advantages of a Digital-Only Release

Alan Wake 2 was one of the first AAA titles to get a digital-only release, which Remedy already hadAlan Wake 2 is a digital only version” target=”_blank”> said help themBring down the price tag and they don’t have to deal with the fact that the game still needs a big update.

But there seem to be more reasons to go all-digital.withEurogamerWhen talking, Alan Wake 2 game director Kyle Rowley revealed that this gave them weeks of extra development time for polishing:

“As creatives, by only using digital, it really gave us more time to perfect the game. Like, quite a few weeks actually. Because otherwise, the game on disc obviously has to be playable without the patch .

Raleigh finally explained: “Hopefully in this way, we can give you a better version of the game.” .

Just doing it digitally seems to have a lot of advantages. Do you wish more AAA games followed suit?