Bernkastel
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Merely 20 days after launch, The Outer Worlds 2 is already on sale in PS and Xbox Storefronts (20% off)
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DeepEnigma
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Capitalism won
mckmas8808
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Is this the user score on PSN?
Kacho
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Xbox
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm super shocked to see that score on Xbox. It's gotten a better user score on Playstation (probably due to it not being on PS+)
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
My family’s excitement about Outer Worlds 2 was short-lived | Dominik Diamond
It’s always crushing when a wildly anticipated game turns out to be a dud, but this RPG’s awful story and clunky dialogue gave my son and I something to talk about
www.theguardian.com
Outer Worlds 2 is bringing families together this holiday season. What a heartwarming tale.
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manlisten
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There's just something about these games. I enjoy myself well enough while i'm playing them but then I'll just drop them for stretches. Just straight up forget that i was even playing the game. Something about the writing and the presentation that does not leave a lasting impression.
Plague Doctor
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The game pass slop content must flow.
Witchilich
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Every single RPG they made performed worse than the first one.
They rushed PoE 1 out even though the writing team said the script was not ready. According to upper management, PoE 1 script was good. Chris Avellone was the last good writer left in Obsidian. After he left PoE 2 bombed and Obsidian since can't write good RPGs.
ahh yes, good RPGs from a studio who does not known how to write good RPGs. Maybe good enough for Game Pass enjoyers. Kingdom Come Deliverance I is what we call a good RPG.
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On Tuesday?
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
Get the 80 eurodollars from the pay piggies and then discount it. Sounds pretty normal to me.
KungFucius
King Snowflake
Someone defended 80 bucks? Did they work for MS and then get laid off?
Dr Cowley
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Dude its Saturday here... I think. One of us is time travelling.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
I don't know about consoles, but it's quite common for PC to get 15-20 percent off on brand new games during sales.
Bf6 is also 15 percent off atm.
Edit - just checked outer worlds 2 on steam sale, it's not on sale on steam. That's really odd lol
Bf6 is also 15 percent off atm.
Edit - just checked outer worlds 2 on steam sale, it's not on sale on steam. That's really odd lol
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Today is Wednesday where I am
The thread was created Tuesday and when it went on sale was probably before Tuesday.
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just happened to make a comment after BF.
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Astray
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They promoted Doom decently from what I've seen, Indiana Jones and especially this got the short end of the stick.
This game needed to come out in a less busy time period.
What's interesting is the game is %20 off on PS, Xbox and Battle.net, but it's not discounted on Steam despite MS running a publisher sale during the same period as Steam's BF sale.
I think there's some sort of experiment being run here.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
Yeah I noticed that as well. That's really strange
Guys the thread is from Tuesday. It was only bumped Friday for a Guardian article saying how disappointing it is:
My family’s excitement about Outer Worlds 2 was short-lived | Dominik Diamond
It’s always crushing when a wildly anticipated game turns out to be a dud, but this RPG’s awful story and clunky dialogue gave my son and I something to talk about
Outer Worlds 2 is bringing families together this holiday season. What a heartwarming tale.
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Astray
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It's almost certainly intentional as well.
I think they're experimenting with various ways to get people to prefer buying their games on Battle.net or the Xbox PC store instead of Steam.
With consoles largely failing for them, PC gaming is their only shot to get %100 of their game revenue without cutting someone else in and it's almost certain they're looking into that now.
You're right in that it's their only shot at 100% revenue but the reason the price is higher on steam is due to how steam does discounts on their cut and projected sales figures. Otherwise it wouldn't be 20% cheaper on PSN too where MS doesn't get 100% either. Steam only offers lower % on their 30% cut of revenue with high volume or they deem the game popular enough that the publisher threatening its absence from Steam is detrimental to steam. Valve and MS were just unlikely to budge on Outer worlds pricing on steam because neither of them projected increased revenue with the 20% off sale there so steam is more expensive.
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At 03:09pm??
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Astray
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I think another aspect is Xbox and PS both offer a different addressable market than Steam/Battle.net. If Microsoft had the ability to offer their own storefront on PS machines, you bet they would pull a similar move there.
I think this game has already proven to be a hot bed of experimentation for Microsoft, they tried out the $80 price tag on it, they tried out making a sequel exclusive (which they later changed after Project Latitude started), so what's one more experiment?
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JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Yep and I won't buy it until it gets a good sale on Steam
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
They're owned by MS now. That's literally it.
The_Mike
I cry about SonyGaf from my chair in Redmond, WA
I highly doubt it.
If that was the case then they wouldn't have released the game to begin with.
Hohenheim
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I find it fascinating and very weird how that can matter to anyone.
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Josemayuste
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I bought it and I think it is a pretty solid RPG
StereoVsn
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Nah, that's not it. Their writing and quest design went to shit. Compare New Vegas to PoE to PoE 2 to Outer Worlds and so on.
It's been progressively getting worse and worse. Outer Worlds 1 was just terrible. Throw in some "modern audience" targeting and their games are no longer interesting RPGs that they once were.
I actually liked PoE 2 despite the issues with the main story. But after that (and Tyranny), things just went downhill.
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You are new here right?
Hohenheim
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Hmm.. I liked Outer Worlds 1 better than New Vegas, actually.
I did however play New Vegas after Outer Worlds, and didn't play it back when it was released. It felt a bit clunky, empty and buggy i comparison to Outer Worlds. The actual freedom of choice is better in New Vegas though. But I prefer Fallout 3 from that era.
This is all probably a very unpopular opinion, I know.
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Hohenheim
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Haha, since 2022 actually. But I don't participate a lot in these "debates".
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Witchilich
Member
Strange assumption going on here. Supposedly people in this forum are hating Obsidian because they are owned by M$.
You guys should ask yourself why PC gamers who liked past Obsidian games are not buying Avowed and Outer Worlds 2.
Obsidian can't even reach half the peak CCU of their crowd funded game PoE 1. And New Vegas is nearing three times the peak CCU of Outer Worlds 2.wow
Obsidian is targeting the WRPG demographics, and it seems people who like WRPGs are instead enjoying Kingdom Come games.
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L*][*N*K
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Well full blown hate started this year, but its been going on since 2018.
Witchilich
Member
PoE 2 didn't flop due to this forum.
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L*][*N*K
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Okay one serious question since Steam CCU is becoming the number one measure for a game's success here, how are we neglecting Gamepass? Like the game is on Gamepass day 1, people who have a gamepass account can play it day 1 we don't know the CCU of Gamepass but don't you think there are a lot of people who play Microsoft games and have a Gamepass subscription would rather play it there and not buy the game for $70??
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
The people who funded PoE1 did not buy Deadfire. It bombed.
Obsidian made isometric CRPGS and they almost went kaput.
Videogames need to make money and Deadfire and Alpha Protocol did not. New Vegas is a cult game but it sold worse than Skyrim. Gamers suck.
Hawk The Slayer
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Wouldn't even get Outer Worlds 2 for free but will still give them credit for.....Fallout New Vegas as NV is still one of the best games of all times modded. Shame cause in another timeline we would have gotten another decent budget Fallout spinoff.
Hohenheim
Member
I really look forward to KC 2!
Havn't gotten around to that yet.
Astray
Member
I don't think experimentation with pricing or promotional strategies is something you gank a title over.
I mean if they put it on a storefront that can be loaded up on Bazzite then I'd be okay getting it there for the cheaper price tbh.
What's really odd is its absence from Epic, not only was the 1st game an Epic timed exclusive when it came out (and it likely sold a good amount of copies there), it and its sequel are both UE games and you would expect Microsoft to at least take advantage of their generous store fees for UE games.
Witchilich
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Outer Worlds 2 is only on the Game Pass Utimate where you have to pay 30 USD. Majority of the userbase is on Steam. Game Pass excuse again does not work on Dreadfire which also flopped unlike PoE 1.
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Interesting, who told you the majority of userbase is on steam? The voices?
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