Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It sounds nice, and yeah, that’s primarily publisher responsibility, but developers are allowed to talk to their publishers about pricing strategy. Framing it as if they have zero responsibility is a bit of a cop out. Limited comments and we don’t have the full story, but it makes it kind of sound like they didn’t even bring it up.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    We don’t know if they tried to “talk” to Microsoft and they said “do as your fucking told.”

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  • MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Absolutely. Sure Publishers want their cut, but it’s an agreement between Dev and pub. This just feels like Bungie blaming Acti-Blizz for all the things people didn’t like about Destiny.

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  • katze@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re trying too hard to put the blame on the wrong party.

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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I already addressed that, but more than one party can shoulder blame at the same time, not everything is black and white.

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  • kortex64@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Microsoft isn’t their publisher, they’re their owner. You’re utterly deluded if you think Obsidian is in any capacity to talk the price down with Microsoft, especially after Avowed failed.

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