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MyDarkestTimeline01, 4 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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.

stoy, 3 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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.

Warl0k3, 3 godziny temu

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

stoy, 3 godziny temu

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.

Kirp123, 3 godziny temu

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.

stoy, 3 godziny temu

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.

Damage, godzinę temu

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

Mister_Feeny, 49 minut temu

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.

tiredofsametab, 3 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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.

Wawe, 2 godziny temu do games w Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN

I am mixed between “Wow! Ten years already” and “Only ten years old, it feels like it has been out for ever”. I am always amazed that it is still receiving updates. ConcernedApe is always developer I look up to and admire. He didn’t let the fame and success affect him and still just casually keeps developing games.

alchemy88, 2 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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

CosmoNova, 2 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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.

CosmoNova, 2 godziny temu do games w Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN

Do AAA game CEOs even realize AI is the main reason sales are down? The very hardware to run your slop has become unaffordable, you clowns! Bloating about AI is about the most tone deaf thing you can do right now.

Besides, we don‘t want slop in our games. If you actually used your products you would know why.

IronpigsWizard, 2 godziny temu do games w Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN

That was a nice interview. The game saved my sanity during the pandemic.

TheFeatureCreature, 2 godziny temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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

sad_detective_man, godzinę temu

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

chicken, 2 godziny temu do games w Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN

and once you make amazing entertainment you have to market it worldwide, and the people who are best at marketing entertainment worldwide are big, significant entertainment enterprises with the balance sheet to actually support those launches, companies like us. So I feel more optimistic than ever that new technology is going to allow us to supercharge our business.

So the argument is basically that their company will not be overshadowed because they’re using AI too, and because the important part of making a successful game is advertising it.

chewables, godzinę temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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

Acidbath, godzinę temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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.

Yarny, godzinę temu do games w Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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%.

Yarny, godzinę temu do games w Stardew Valley Turns 10: The Big ConcernedApe Interview - IGN

I figured that the new update would come out for the 10th anniversary, but from the interview it sounds like it won’t. Eagerly awaiting it to start a new playthrough.