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mindbleach, do gaming w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming

Door in the face technique.

the_riviera_kid, do gaming w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming

Until its sub 50 I wouldn’t even consider it and even then… MEH.

JoeKrogan, do gaming w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Still too high. Not that I would buy it anyway

tgirlschierke, do games w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming

I liked the first Outer Worlds a lot. I loved Parvati’s storyline and was so excited when she finally went on that date with Junlei. However, even I’m not paying that much for a sequel.

LostWanderer, do games w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming
@LostWanderer@fedia.io avatar

Good, they needed to have sense knocked into their incompetent heads. This was such a big price hike in such an economically uncertain time. Thankfully, consumer outrage was strong enough to convince them to lower it back to a price that I still consider too high. I miss the $60 dollar price tag. 🥲

_haha_oh_wow_, do games w Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming
@_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works avatar

$69.99

That’s cool, I’ll continue not buying your shitty, overpriced games!

If you happen to make a good one, maybe I’ll buy the fully patched version with all the DLC for $5 in a few years.

Midnitte, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

“What could go wrong with letting Microsoft buy up all the studios?”

Chewy7324,

Yeah it’s so sad seeing studio after studio being closed down. So many commenters thought Microsoft will revive old IPs after buying studio after studio.

Now it seems like those IPs will just rot at Microsoft in their intellectual property graveyard.

Faydaikin,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

The IPs are the really sad part here. There was some good stuff in there, but alas…

TabbsTheBat, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well
@TabbsTheBat@pawb.social avatar

Has there ever been a gaming article that started with microsoft where the following words weren’t closing/shutting down? Hah

savvywolf,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

Probably only if the word “AI” is in the title…

TabbsTheBat,
@TabbsTheBat@pawb.social avatar

Real :3

brsrklf, (edited )

I can think of one, the one where they announced they were so proud of that new studio they had just created.

But they just closed that very studio and it couldn’t deliver even one game in between, so… Yeah.

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

That was the ONE trailer from this Xbox announcement that I was actually looking forward to. It looked in a fairly playable state, too. I feel like a very broken record, but this is yet another reason why it feels like Microsoft is pulling out of gaming.

lustyargonian, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

Classic case of how unrestricted money and a hotch potch of talent doesn’t make a studio. It needs to have strong leadership, vision and some constraints.

Microsoft will never learn that throwing money at the problem isn’t ever the solution.

brsrklf, (edited ) do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

That’s the “Quadruple A” studio right? The one that was supposed to have “unlimited budget” so it could create “groundbreaking video game experiences”?

And they ended up not releasing anything before they’re shut down. A+ management there, Microsoft.

frank,

Quadruple A+ management*

cupcakezealot, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

"we have copilot why do we need game studios?" - microsoft probably

belated_frog_pants, do gaming w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well

God i hate microsoft

RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects

Honestly? Its kinda good Perfect Dark was cancelled.

When MS first showed Perfect Dark, there was nothing of substance really to base any expectations on. Except previous games, which were only ever “okay.” But the second time they showed it, with their idea of gameplay, it looked bad. It didn’t look like what one would expect from Perfect Dark, it looked like some weird hybrid between Battlefield/Call of Duty, Mirror’s Edge, and a high tech cyberpunk game.

Perfect Dark was really only ever “that game Rare made because they weren’t allowed to make GoldenEye 2.” It wasn’t really revolutionary or prolific or anything, unlike GoldenEye.

Its better that it stays the way it was than be ruined by whatever it was going to be cobbled into. I am kinda shocked it took MS this long to cancel it.

TwinTitans, do games w Microsoft is closing down Xbox studio The Initiative, with Perfect Dark killed as well — joining Everwild and ZeniMax's new IP, and other unannounced projects
@TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

Not surprised at all. What WILL surprise me is if M$ actually releases another XBOX console. Because as far as I’m concerned right now, regardless of what they say, they are not.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

Seems a foregone conclusion at this point that they’re going to brand a PC as an Xbox and allow it to run both Xbox and PC games on it. They may not even bother making the hardware themselves like they’re doing with this partnership on the “Xbox” handheld which is really just a cross branded Asus handheld.

fushuan,

I really hope they do, or either allow Devs to publish games only on the good console. Having to release for the S if you want to release Xbox at all is a nightmare that needs to stop, it’s gonna get harder as time goes on.

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