That’s nice to hear. Alan Wake 2 was a great game and gorgeous, but even after upgrading my gpu, it was a pain trying to get it to run even sort of smoothly. A bit over ambitous, methinks.

Control, otoh, ran great when it came out and still runs great, all while looking great as well. Going back to whatever strategy worked their seems like a good idea.

“Kind of”. Exploitation is the whole game. I linked to some videos in another comment that dug into it (https://lemm.ee/comment/20719563).

Most likely nothing. The whole system is designed to lure kids into making content and not pay out.

PMG has a pair of videos looking into it -

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY