But can we focus on optimizing games so thst it runs on the most potato of potato PCs ??
I think that’ll work wonders along with the pricing
i will continue to enjoy my indie games that cost me 5€, thanks.
better yet my free games like warframe that have cost me nothing and given me thousands of hours of enjoyment.
Seriously! I got a $50 steam gift card for Christmas, bought one full price dlc (Shadow of the Erdtree) and like five or so indie games that I’ve put way more time in!
Then why DRM?
It’ll go on sale for $15 eventually. I can wait.
Heavy respect to obsidian. Outer worlds is a great game, i wish i could buy full price going to obsidian only. Fuck M$
Bummer, but that’s gonna be a no from me, dog.
Just as heads up, Obsidian, I’ll require this to be at least 75% off if it’s good and over 20 hours of single-player campaign. If it’s shorter, I can be enticed at 90% off. I’ll wait for a few years, no problem, my family group backlog is in the thousands.
Them: “we don’t set the price”.
You: “I’ll buy it if you set a lower price”.
So people don’t even read the headlines anymore?
No, I’ve seen it, that is feedback and it should be invaluable to all interested parties, not only those who set the price.
The evolution of game design has basically been dead for a few years now, so shouldn’t the process just get cheaper?
Fidelity and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the budget size
For AAA games, maybe, but not for indie. The best and most innovative games out there are not made by major studios.
Obsidian hasn’t been an indie for at least 7 years now.
This is a ‘AAA’ game.
I meant generally about game design. I’m not talking about this game, although it looks interesting.
I bought the first one for $20. For the second I’ll play on Game Pass, if it is available, or again wait for $20. Maybe even less if I forget about it, which I might.
One of the theories behind this game’s price is Microsoft is trying to force more people onto the premium game pass.
Games were $60 three decades ago, inflation hits us all.
If its as light as the first one, all I can say is “YARRRG”
It’s definitely going to have Denuvo at launch
That is OK we can wait.
As will I
80? What the hell?
Removed by mod
Microsoft makes the world worse again. Fuck ms, go linux.
Yar har fiddle dee, 80 bucks a game just ain’t for me, yar har fiddle and fat, I’ll just fucking sail the high seas numbnuts publishers, good job trading the 60 bucks I was willing to pay for the 0 you’ll be getting from me now.
And remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.
It’s gonna be on gamepass, thats the cheap option.
FitGirl will be the cheap option.
You do you, but to me 99% of pirates are just entitled parasites who’ve never created anything in their lives and as such do not understand why content has a price. For me piracy is only justifiable when you have paid for the content but are being barred from accessing it via bullshit like Adobe DRM.
But pirating shit just because you disagree with the pricing is entitled behavior and I cannot condone it, as someone who thinks I have the right to price my property at whatever price I want. It’s not essential to your survival so you can just not consume it and move on.
There are a lot of other reasons to pirate content besides disagreeing with pricing. I get that the price point of this game is the subject here but I doubt 99% of pirates are at a disagreement over pricing.
I gave the only instance in which piracy is permissible in the comment you replied to. When there are arbitrary restrictions on how and where you can consume the content that you purchased. But a purchased must have had happened, because that’s what entitles you to access to the content. That’s literally the only instance in which piracy is valid. I’ve seen all the other arguments and they really don’t hold up to any kind of scrutiny because games, movies and books are not necessities and you are not entitled to access to anyone’s work while everyone is entitled to price their work however they like. If you want access to the content you pay what the gatekeeper is asking for, and if the content is not good enough for you to pay for it then surely it isn’t good enough for you to spend the most valuable resource that you have on it which is time.
