Could someone explain to me what the reason is for Xbox to change the whole sharing situation?

just saying iceman that the manuscript is called "The Departure"

Alan was still trapped in limbo. Does that help?

What you are describing happened in the game. Remember that at the end of the first chapter, Alan dives into the lake after Alice. The beginning of chapter two starts out when you awaken in a car accident and you later find out that you've been missing
for a week. During that week, the Dark Presence has been holding you and your wife captive at the bottom of the lake. The Dark Presence (in the form of that woman it took the shape of) told you that she is holding your wife captive and if you want to free
her or see her ever again, you have to write. I think the name of the manuscript he was working on is called "The Departed" or something like that. So Alan starts writing, making the Dark Presence more powerful. Alan tries to be sneaky and tries to "write"
his way out of this situation, but the Dark Presence is smart and starts twisting his writing into a horror novel, so that plain fails, but he keeps trying and in doing so, he makes the Dark Presence more powerful. Thomas Zane (the guy in the old diving suit
that was a previous victim of the Dark Presence), helps Alan break free and escape the bottom of the lake the first time and then he wakes up in the car accident and we start playing Chapter 2 with no recollection of the events of the past week.

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Had it not been for Tom Zane helping Alan escape, he would have stayed down there at the bottom of the lake writing until he was too weak and later, dead. In which case, they'd probably kill the wife, too and then go on to find another victim, just like
you said. But when Alan escaped, he had to figure out what happened during that week he went missing and then once he found out, he had to go back to rescue his wife. The manuscripts that you collect throughout the game are pages that Alan typed while he
was at the bottom of the lake. He recognizes his story, but he doesn't actually remember typing it. The story "The Departed" that he writes when he was down underneath the lake is actually the events of the game you are playing taking place and coming to
life. That's the "twist".

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@DistortedHarp6

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There was no need for you to be rude.

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@SiliconIceman.

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Thanks for the help. I'm still confused.

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Here's my take on what happened at the end based on what I saw in the final cutscenes:

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I thought Alan was dead during the entire game and what Alan was going through was Hell. I thought his wife survived and Alan drowned.

@ Silicon Iceman

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It clears things up really well. Thanks Silocon Iceman.

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I have one question though. If Alan Wake refused to write for the dark presence, why wouldn't the dark presence keep his wife with him and inflict harm to her in order to get him to write? Use the wife as leverage to get Alan to keep writing. Once Alan dies,
kill the wife too.

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Once Alan and his wife are dead, bring the island back up and wait until another artist or somebody to come along and use them to write to give the dark presence more power.