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[rofif]

I am surprised they even greenlit it....
woke toxic positivity at work? First game was widely unpopular.
chatgpt tells me outer wilds sold 2,5mil copies not counting gamepass.

 

[hemo memo]

 

[Tomi]

Aaand sales are gone...

I hope people from studio will find another job quickly

 

[saintjules]

Weird to say, but a game like this would reaffirm GTA VI being $80, if not more at launch.

 

[R3TRO]

That almost makes me want Gamepass…But still no.

 

[Mister Wolf]

They are steering you towards Gamepass.

 

[Draugoth]

This is going to bomb

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

Devs that try to sell their games for $80, and aren't amazing, are gonna get crushed on the socials, and PR ain't gonna save them. Outer World 2 better be way ahead of the original, or Obsidian is gonna get rolled yet again.

 

[R6Rider]

Any interest I had in the game (which was already low) is now gone.

 

[T4keD0wN]

Call of Duty could get away with this pricing, but this just feels like straight up wanting to fail meeting the sales expectations

 

[hemo memo]

Weird to say, but a game like this would reaffirm GTA VI being $80, if not more at launch.

GTAVI is not going to be $80.
It will be more

 

[EviLore]

Ironic for the game series about corporate greed and the virtues of communism

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

This is going to bomb

We can only hope

 

[Sephimoth]

Bit arrogant...

 

[StereoVsn]

Pretty much a gamepass exclusive then. Obsidian games aren't very good these days anyway.

Yep, "Good Enough for GamePass" seems to be the motto. Very few people will buy this for $80, whether on Steam or consoles.

 

[Warnen]

 

[Shubh_C63]

Outer Worlds 1 and now 2 are both mediocre games.

80$ is a great move. MS just ensured anyone interested will get it on XGP else pony up 80$ !!
Good that trailer showcase none of the interaction of NPCs, game calling itself an RPG the narration and dialogues are plain bad.

 

[Mr Moose]

I am surprised they even greenlit it....
woke toxic positivity at work? First game was widely unpopular.
chatgpt tells me outer wilds sold 2,5mil copies not counting gamepass.

Is the first one that bad? I think I have both versions of it (for free), haven't played much but it seemed OK.

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Imagine paying $80 for the sequel to a 5/10 game.

 

[adamsapple]

Is the first one that bad? I think I have both versions of it (for free), haven't played much but it seemed OK.

No, lol. You're listening to someone who thinks Forspoken was a good game.

The first game is perfectly fine, well reviewed even.

 

[blacktout]

... Why would you kick off $80 pricing with Outer Worlds 2 when you have Call of Duty right around the corner?

Even Nintendo was smart enough to sell Donkey Kong for $70 and use their biggest franchise to try to normalize the $80 price tag.

Even setting aside the consumer outrage angle, this seems ... dumb?

 

[R6Rider]

Is the first one that bad? I think I have both versions of it (for free), haven't played much but it seemed OK.

It was bland, boring, and just not very fun.

Leveling up and skills were bad, the loot was bad, the exploration was awful.

 

[bender]

The first game is perfectly fine

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

It's ok, because I won't buy this crap.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[ValiantInstance]

Not worth half of that. You can count the franchises on one hand that can justify this price, and Xbox owns none of them.

 

[Gamer79]

This sucks because I am a big fan of the original game. I will not buy it out of principle alone. I can wait a few months and find a steam/other platform pc key for around $30 instead.

 

[Astray]

It's almost like they are pricing it that way, so Game Pass looks like the better option and obviously it is in this case.

Lol ruining the sales potential of your big titles so you can prop up an unprofitable sub service is certainly a choice.

 

[bender]

At best it was forgettable.

 

[T4keD0wN]

Is the first one that bad? I think I have both versions of it (for free), haven't played much but it seemed OK.

Its not amazing quality-wise, but its definitely very silly and very fun.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Meh. I'll just not buy it and move on. I'll continue voting with my wallet.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

$89 in my country, going to have to be one of the best games this gen to make me pay up at release.

 

[StueyDuck]

woof

 

[Saber]

Good luck with that garbage lmao

 

[Pop]

On STEAM???

Xbox & Phil have lost their minds

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Most of these games have terrible launches, usually needing multiple patches. Especially these big open world games.

The price increase will make people more picky when it comes to deciding to buy a game day one. Idk what they are thinking …

I have been buying games day one less and less over the years because it don't make sense to pay the highest price and get a mediocre game when waiting gets you a more updated game at a lower price.

 

[Sebastian1295]

Ironic for the game series about corporate greed and the virtues of communism

Ok that's a good point lol.

 

[rofif]

Is the first one that bad? I think I have both versions of it (for free), haven't played much but it seemed OK.

it's not that bad... it's just a big nothingburger

 

[ssringo]

Cool. Makes it easy to narrow down which games I want to buy when they price themselves out of my "willing to give a chance" range.

 

[XERXES_89]

These guys had to crowdfund their last great RPGs and now they are releasing this mediocre RPG series and survival games for kids. RIP Obsidian (2003-2018)

 

[I'm nobody]

gamepass it is

That's the strategy over charge get a game pass

 

[Sintoid]

Soon It will be 12$ with other games on Humble bundle for what I care

 

[Edder1]

A game making fun of capitalism made by woke social justice warriors selling for $80, lol. You can't make this sh*t up. What a bunch of clowns, both Microsoft and the devs.

 

[winjer]

They really overestimate how much people are willing to pay to play this game.
Sales for this game will be dead on arrival. And most will play it on Gamepass for a faction of those 80$.

 

[Panajev2001a]

I like the usual MS cheerleaders going on about pro consumer GamePass and good guy Phil / pro consumer MS suggesting that MS's strategy is to buy publishers and put all games at absurd prices to force users to subscribe into GamePass… and their advice / commentary here is "hey play it on GamePass".

Chickens cheering for KFC it is … or astroturfers well astroturfing .

 

[Jesb]

For this game? Hahahahahaha.

 

[Little Mac]

I thought it looked cool from what I saw, but I never played the first one. Regardless $80 bucks is a lot and I'd rather spend that $80 on the next Steam Summer Sale and get like 6-8 bangers on my wishlist.

 

[Griffon]

They are steering you towards Gamepass.

Yep, that's exactly their gameplan.

Since gamepass renting value proposition sucks ass, their only way to make it seem less awful is to jack up the price of ownership.


That's exactly why renting needs to die.

 

[Filben]

Microsoft really don't want to sell games anymore. Another strategy to get people to subscribe to GP.

 

[Skifi28]

The CCU thread for this will be fun

But gamepass gamepass gamepass