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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.
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.
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
The first one felt very forced as far as the leftist story goes. I’m as leftist as there is but it still felt really heavy handed. I got maybe 3 hours in and never picked it up again.
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
Fallout is anti-corporate. But you’re dealing with the aftermath of runaway capitalism, instead of being inside of it. Whereas the outer worlds felt like a too long episode of Futurama featuring mom corp.

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.

I basically refuse to pay more than $50 for a game.

The outer wilds had some good press but by the time I was interested it was given away for free. Guessing that’ll be the case here too.