Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It underperformed due to them overcharging for it.

  I had my sights set on buying it shortly after launch, then they decided to charge €80 for it on launch, and still charge €70 for it.

  I would be fine with €60, but more is just greedy.

  And yes I noticed way too late that they had it on sale for €50 this december, and I missed that opportunity due to other expenses.

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  • Mister_Feeny@fedia.io ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    They actually walked back the 80 to 70 BEFORE launch, but the bad press about it stuck anyway.

    I skipped it myself cuz even though I generally like Obsidian games, I don't spend money on microsoft anymore.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a great game imho, but I was gifted my copy - in no world is a game worth €80, it’s completely divorced from reality. Fucking tragic the publisher just killed it on delivery.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, the price for new games had been fixed for a long time at €50, and then the industry decided to whack it up to €70 just as the cost of living reached even higher.

      And now they are standing around scratching their heads asking why their games failed…

      Now, I realize that the cost of living also affects companies and their staff, but come on, you don’t whack the price up by 40% in one go, you start earlier and raise it by 10-20%, let it stabilize and go from there.

      That is more in line with the inflation rate.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Aside from it being a high price for any game, the first game also was very meh, you can’t expect lots of sales from its fans

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  • Kirp123@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I feel that the game would have been fine if it was an actually game worth playing. The first game already was kinda meh and I don’t even know who demanded a sequel. Nobody is going to pay 80 Euro for a mediocre game when they could get a bunch of indie games with that money.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I really enjoyed the first one, and am looking forward to the second, but first it needs to get a better price, and preferably get on GOG.

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• chewables@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I ended up pirating it because the price was just out of the question for me at the time I found out it was released. Which was purely by chance

  Overall it was an okay experience but I didn’t like the cast as much as the original, had to download some mods for my first playthrough (not something I usually do) to fix some things I found annoying, and was just kinda bored. If I’d had anything else to do I probably wouldn’t have finished it, and I don’t see myself going back for a second playthrough. Indie games just seem to be doing everything better rn

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• TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No way in hell I’d pay its nearly $100CAD asking price.

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    For how phoned in the story was and how badly it runs in UE5 it’s kind of insane that they charged above $50

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• Yarny@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Didn’t mind the first one, but you are out of your mind if you think I would pay $70 for this game. Especially after they tried to sell it for $80 at first. Thank god that didn’t fly. Fuck you Microsoft.

  It’s crazy too, because most games that launch for $70, you can just wait 3 months and then they’ll have a 30% sale. I will be picking it up this March, should go on sale for like 40%.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I didn‘t like the first one so this was a hard pass for me. However I didn‘t even know the sequel was out yet. This thing completely drowned among better priced indie games.

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• Acidbath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Is the second game really “meh”? I enjoyed the first one but that was because I got stupidly high everytime I play. There has been moments where I would sober up and question why everyone in a town hates me and why is everyone dead. Don’t remember the details either, epic games corrupted my save and I gave up.

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• MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Haven’t they lost almost all of the staff involved with the good games? At this point they’re in the same boat as BioWare. All the old guard is gone.

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• alchemy88@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shame. I really enjoyed playing this on gamepass. It wasn’t amazing but I completed it which is rare these days.

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• tiredofsametab@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There were unpatched issues in the first one (it's been so long now I don't remember them all but there was one in a DLC where you're supposed to be able to give an item to a robot NPC but it was just broken in addition to several others).

  Looking at the price and thinking of that, it was a "pass until decent sale" for me.

  I do like the setting generally (at least based on the first one). It might be neat to have someone else take over the IP and go somewhere with it.

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