The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It

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• catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m not going to bother reading the article, because you can both be anti-capitalist and participate in the system as it exists today. The developers can’t pay rent with good vibes.

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  • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also the developers don’t set the price

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  • the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A healthy way to look at things, but also the guaranteed way to maintain the status quo. It’s funny how that works.

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    • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They can take action in other ways, including publishing anticapitalist messages in their game.

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  • ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I view society as a poison I can use to hurt people. Very anti-capitalist, and promotes participation in capitalist society.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    This Thread-

    “We should improve gaming somewhat”

    “Just don’t buy the game!”

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sure if it was up to the developers and creative minds behind the game this would have never been an issue. Sure, things like inflation have made the process of making games more expensive, but it’s not like the extra money is going to actually go back to the developers. I’m so sick of this “games are more expensive to make” bullshit while they treat their employees like garbage and make them work ungodly hours. Micro$oft makes more money in one day than most of us or any of the developers will ever see in our entire lifetimes yet they need to lecture us on why we need to give them more money.

  To be clear, I hold no grudge against the actual developers of this game. The first one was pretty decent and I’m sure this next one will be relatively good as well. But remember that we are talking about the company that forced Arkane to make Redfall when they had no desire to make it and after it failed fired everyone at Arkane Austin and closed the studio. This isn’t about making their money back to cover the cost of development, it’s about making as much profit as possible with the least amount of effort possible.

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism deals with industry being owned privately.

  If you want to complain about Microsoft being a publicly-traded, private-sector company rather than a worker cooperative or part of the government or whatever, okay, at least I can see where you’re coming from.

  But a socialist economy is perfectly compatible with having high prices.

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• Prox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Microsoft doesn’t expect anyone to pay $80. They expect people to sub to Game Pass instead.

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  • llii@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s even worse.

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• katze@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I guess the author learned that being anti-capitalist is somewhat trendy and couldn’t resist writing this opus. But this has nothing to do with the game or games in general.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course you can - if an adequate share of that money goes to the devs, the only issue is the money that doesn’t go to the devs. And they very likely don’t have much control over that money

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• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They aren’t gonna charge me shit because the first one was so dull I only got halfway through it.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “You’ve had the best, now try the rest!” Should be Epic’s slogan.

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• ech@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol, the cognitive dissonance of whining about capitalism because their vidya game got a little more expensive. Not only is the entitlement and hypocrisy off the charts, there are so many ways to play games for cheap and/or free, the criticism is entirely moot. Don’t like the price a company is asking for for an entirely optional commodity? Don’t fucking pay it. It’s not that hard.

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• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s a lot of money for any game, let alone one that will also be launching on Game Pass and, like its progenitor, is smaller scale than other open world RPGs of this ilk.

  It’s this thinking that led to Starfield and Redfall being priced at $70 and Hi-Fi Rush priced at $30.

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So don’t buy it.

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• stupidopensourceBS@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s satire, you fucking pleb.

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• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If this game is as good as it looks Bethesda has to really step it up on Fallout 5 or big daddy Microsoft might give the IP back to its creators.

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Not sure how the first game was a snorefest - I genuinely had more fun in Starfield.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Outer Worlds 1 was a fantastic palate cleanser after Starfield.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah I have to disagree, the first game was lifeless and dull imo

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