The Outer Worlds (@OuterWorlds)
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Dear Galactic Citizens! We have received your SOS via skip drone about the pricing. As an organization devoted to making sure that corporations do not go unfettered, we at the Earth Directorate have worked with [REDACTED] to revise the price of The Outer Worlds 2. While this will not bring peace to the galaxy, or even your local colony, we assure you all that we are here to fight for all colonies in every way that we can. From the Office of the Director of the Earth Directorate

Supposedly, they’re rolling back the price increase for all holiday releases.

“We’re focused on bringing players incredible worlds to explore, and will keep our full priced holiday releases, including The Outer Worlds 2, at $69.99 – in line with current market conditions,” an Xbox spokesperson explained in a statement to Windows Central.

If you’ve already pre-ordered The Outer Worlds 2 at the $79.99 price point, you will have to grab refunds at the point of purchase if you’ve already paid up. Microsoft says some retailers will light up with refunds today, but some will start accepting refunds from tomorrow. Then, you can pre-order again at the new $69.99 price tier.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    6·
    24 hours ago

    I said pretty much this when they announced the price. I could see some games maybe being able to make the $70 or $80 argument, maybe. But definitely not this game.

    If you’re going to push the limit of game pricing you have to pick a very good game to start with, then all of the mediocre ones can be brought up slowly over time. You can’t just increase the price of every game wholesale and expect people to be okay with it.

    If anybody was going to be okay with paying $80 for a game it would be GTA VI, I suspect that most of the studios were caught out, as they assumed it would cost $80 and would be released this year. When the announcement came that it wasn’t going to be released until next year their projected pricing suddenly didn’t make sense, but they went ahead with it anyway, and got rightfully yelled at.

    • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      22 hours ago

      GTA 6 won’t be worth 80 bucks. no game is. it’s complete horseshit, the inflation argument is bad, the cost of making games argument is worse. don’t buy corpo bullshit.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        21 hours ago

        I wasn’t making an inflation argument. But if any game was worth $80 that would be that. I can’t think of another candidate that’s due out soon, possibly another Sims game but the zero chance of EA are going to do anything with that franchise for a while.

        CDPR has a very ambitious project coming up, but I’m not touching that with an electrified cattle prod until after the reviews come out.

        Maybe a CoD game depending on who is actually developing it and assuming it had a campaign.

        • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          20 hours ago

          i didn’t mean to imply you were arguing for it. i get what you’re saying i just wanted to point out that the industry justifications for it are bullshit.