https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-concedes-that-the-outer-worlds-2-retail-price-was-too-high

Bullying works. If only tendies had this kind of spine.

<very high price> was too much! We'll lower it down to <high price>

>Pre-orders are abyssal, time to press the emergency button

Wow, only $70? How generous!

what asshole is even buying xbox games anyway

Another turbo racist nazi chud gamer victory, as usual.
Are leftyloser cucks even trying? LOL

This is planned marketing so they can people can think Microsoft listened and aren't like that naughty Nintendo

the 5-days early access will stlll go for a $90 instead of the $100 before. Not much really change but I'm sure the usual youtubers will celebrate this as a "win" somehow.

>>716225072 (OP)
still not buying it

>>716225072 (OP)
It's an ok PR stunt for microsoft considering their primary marketing strategy relies on gamepass.

>you don't want to pay $80 for a game? oh wow i guess we'll retreat back down to $70!
i remember when that $70 pricetag was only because of Snoy and Timmy deciding that games would be $70 and that was that.

>>716225072 (OP)
I'd still pay 100 bucks for nintendo games. 0 for xbox and snoy games

>>716225072 (OP)
tendies are not a fanbase, they are a cult

>>716225393
fipbip, close the thread already

>set an extraordinarily high price
>know very well nobody is going to buy it
>lower the price by 10 bucks
>pre-orders flood in because of the "excellent deal"

>>716225072 (OP)
>70 for a game
You are aware that they won moving the price from 60 to 70 right?

>own PC
>get repacks off of fitgirl
>never pay a dime

>raise it "too high"
>knock it back down to "just right"
>it's higher than before
>gaymers praise this

>>716225072 (OP)
>tuh-tuh-tendies
Kek nah. Microsoft just lacks conviction, hence why Xbox is dead and the rest of the company is riddled with jeets. Nintendo actually has unbreakable nippon spirit.

They messed with gamers... GAMERS

>>716225072 (OP)
the pre sales must've been low

>>716225072 (OP)
Wish Nintendo listened to gamers like Microsoft does.

Even 100 isn’t a big deal if the game is good. GTA6 will be a hundo

>>716226381
they do this with grocery stores too

>>716225072 (OP)
how long before some insane anon claims it was a marketing strategy to look like they listen to people and the intended price was always 70

Yeah, Outer Worlds 2 is not the game to push for this bullshit
They'll try again at the next Gears or TES 6

>>716225072 (OP)
>game costs 60
>"Lets move it to 80"
>"Oh no we are sorry, we move it back to 70"
There is a name for this.

Nobody cares about Outer Worlds.

Obsidian only got famous because they leeched off successful IPs like Star Wars and Fallout by releasing shitty, buggy and unfinished games.

Todd won.

>>716226507
Early streaming access will be at least 200 dollariinos.

>>716226491
The thing is, I'm pretty sure Microsoft and the rest are backing off from $80 because they know Nintendo's sales numbers that we don't. Highly, highly likely that $80 is not working out for them either. The Switch 2 is a flop because of it.

>>716226615
The article says this applies to all of their "holiday releases" meaning they were going to make CoD $80 but aren't now
My take is the industry is hoping GTA6 normalizes $80-100 range (even though only Rockstar and Nintendo could actually get away with it)
Mario Kart World remains the only $80 game but it kind of doesn't count, the bundle knocks it to $50, but the bundle isn't permanent.

>>716226705
I remember seeing right through the bullshit when you explore that first shit and you're getting hammered with dialogue to trick people into thinking the game has detail

>>716226491
I wish nintendo wasnt psychotically anti-consumer and fucking everyone to the maximum extent the law allows because their brains are infected by demons

>>716225072 (OP)
is using fitgirl hard for somebody who never p*rated? do you need to do anything with your system do run p*rated games? these prices are beyond retarded

>>716226794
>Mario Kart World remains the only $80 game
Only game big enough to justify the $80 price.

>>716226157
you realized they moved to 70 years ago for everyone except pc

>>716226705
many people confuse it for Outer Wilds

take it down to $50. you won't.

I pirated the first one and felt ripped off, shan't be wasting my time with any obsidian trash in the future.

>>716226401
Nintendo could sell cardboard and tendies would buy i- wait that actually happened

>>716226794
>>716226862
Mario Kart World and the Switch 2 in general are bombing. Nintendo shot themselves in the foot and Microsoft sees it.

>>716225072 (OP)
I will never understand the mental retardation one must have to buy games on launch.
Especially since every game today released in beta and won't be finished for another year or so.

Obsidian should just be a slave company making Fallout and Elder Scrolls between BGS releases. It's going to get to the point where it's the only thing from Bethesda that sells so they need to pump more out.

>>716226862
I have a feeling the only 80$ games will be MUST have super hyped up games even then the 80$ price tag hasn't been proven to work as 99% of people that own MK world got it bundled in the switch and only payed 50$ for it

>>716225393
and you will be happy

>>716226990
yeah

>>716225072 (OP)
I thought they did it to push gamepass subscribers. Like why buy one game for $80 when you can play dozens of games for $20 a month. Even if you stay subbed for 3 months and finish 4 or 5 games you're still saving $20 compared to 1.

>>716225072 (OP)
Wow 70 dollars?! Truly we goyim have so much to be thankful for the savy benevolent business practices of God's cbosen people!

>>716225393
this is exactly how they do it
2 years ago:
>"we're going to raise the price of games to $70, and you're going to like it"
1 year ago:
>"we're going to raise the prices of games to $100, and you're going to deal with it"
today:
>"we're going to lower the price of games to $70, and you will thank us"

f2p games are destroying these $70-100 games btw

>>716225393
>>716225584
$70 isn't much. Adjusted for inflation games would cost $100

>>716226157
When you factor in inflation games now are cheaper than the PS1/N64 era

>>716225072 (OP)
>Quality products demand a premium price
>Worthless garbage needs to be priced accordingly

>>716227562
Good thing I spend a grand total of $0 on nigger worshipping triple A garbage. I have enough old games, movies and tv shows to last me an entire lifetime that I never have to partake in this pozzed modern garbage.

>>716227562
And?
70% of a games cost was the physical media it came on until about 15 years ago, now it costs $0 and their profit continues to grow.

The only reason they're rolling this back is because pre-orders of the outer worlds were a travesty because they can't sell the game on
>by the creators of fallout new vegas!
A second time after the dogturd they delivered last.

lil pups thought they were nintendo

picrel
>i'm a designer
>and i have a mental illness
>in my spare time i like to draw condoms

>>716225393
Fpbp

>>716225072 (OP)
>our pre-sale numbers were massively down so I guess we applied too much heat to the water this time and the frog jumped out, don't worry we will try again in soon or in smaller increments

>>716225072 (OP)
this is pathetic. game should be 30 bucks, max.

>>716227562
full price would get you the entire game now it gets you 40% of it at most and it's unplayable for the first few months because of how buggy it is

>>716225072 (OP)
I can guarantee Nintendo will be doing the same. It hasn't worked out for them

>>716228020
Back then full price got you a game box, disc and paper manual. Now the kikes charge you double full price for a digital code. I hate this jewish inshittification of everything.

>>716228028
>It hasn't worked out for them
Nintendo could charge $100 for games and tendies would be lining up to buy it

>>716225072 (OP)
>scifi future
>police/security for some hub area
>looks like complete utter shit
>helmet looks like a robot design worse than something you'd see in the 1950's
who designs this trash?
Like I think AI can design something even better than this

>>716226030
SAAAAR

>80 dollars
>now 70 dollars
Still 40 Dollars too high.

>>716225393
Crab boiling tactics.

>>716228476
shut up N

>biggest company on the planet spends one hour of its global income on making a game
>they could give the game away for free for getting clout
>could sell it for $40 like a normal game
>decided to go for $80

>>716228164
They make good games. Its not hard

>>716227562
If any of that mattered the game would have sold at 80.

There is no adjusted for inflation.

There is only what the customer is willing to pay. Things cost too much, the average person doesn't make a living wage from a single college degree requiring job. The divide between the inflation of cost is massive the inflation of wages is stagnant.

No inflation numbers matter until they come back in line with what people actually make.

>>716225072 (OP)
Hahahahaahahaha.
Release it at 6.99 and then maybe we will talk.
The Shitch 2's software sales must have leaked and suck ass for the corporations to back off from their price hikes.

>>716227039
>muh cardboard
Like a floundering fish gasping for air, the jeet goes back to the only thing its peanut brain can think of...

Labo flopped. They didn't buy it. Just like they didn't buy the Wii U. Nor did they buy Virtual Boy. Wait, what about 64DD? Huh? Satellaview? What?

For a cult that CONSOOMS, those 'tendies' sure aren't doing a good job, eh?

>>716228636
this
the balloon has encompassed the earth and nobody can breathe. anyone asking about how quickly the balloon is gaining size at that point... just ugh

>>716228605
Where? What games? They haven't made anything good in decades.

>>716228667
Yeap I am a bit of an industry insider and the Shitch 2's game sales are REALLY low across the board. Seems like asking 80 Euros for a 5 hour long game is a tough sell after all.

>>716225072 (OP)
>Microsoft
>lowers prices
>no denuvo
why do we hate microsoft again?

>>716225393
I remember the days when MS and other publishers justified the price increase from $50 to $60 because the higher disc capacity costed more on the 360.

>>716227562
if $70 isnt much, im sure these companies wont miss it if i decide to not spend it with them then

>>716226705
Nu-Vegas troons on suicide watch upon seeing this post.

>>716225072 (OP)
Thanks to this brave decision I'm sure MS will be HAPPY WITH THE SALES of Outer Worlds 2 and then half a year later we'll learn it sold 3.5 copies

>>716227562
$70 is significantly more than any game is worth. I only buy things on sale now.

>>716226157
You mean when they moved the price from 50 to 60 in 2006.

>>716226831
Pirating notable titles is pretty easy nowadays. However it requires things they don't teach in school like researching things on your own and not opening every link because a site told you so. Common sense as they say.
If you are an amateur start on the proper sub on R*ddit and slowly familiarize yourself with a few long running sites. The two advice I can give is to use an adblocker and triple check every URL you visit and every link you click on. Nowadays viruses aren't much a concern but fake sites and urls are. The rest is part of your learning curve. Good luck.

>>716228760
because of this

But the Outer Wilds is worthless

>>716228980
thanks, anon

>>716225072 (OP)
Because everyone is demoralized about AAA games they have all sucked. Nobody wants to buy a rpg bethsda-like with marvel writing that you can't mod to have big tits. The only reason why new vegas got big is because you can mod it. If I can't mod your game with tits why would I want to play it?

What a bargain at $70! I might buy 2!

Price too high, rather spend money on stuff that's $40. Me grug brain, me no need expensive game to happy.

>>716225072 (OP)
So will they remove the ugly female characters with short hair and ads sexy female characters with long hair? No then I don't care

>>716225072 (OP)
>goyslop niggerslop deislop wokeslop from xcucks gaming studios(tm)(r)(inc)(ltd) originals(tm) >now at 10 goyimshekeldollarinos less!!
your game is not even worth for free @billgay @spencergoblin @nadellajeet. do the needful and kys. shan't be consuming your kike globalist propaganda.
>first game was 40 bucks
makes this even funnier

>>716229276
holy based

>>716225584
Idiots are buying Sony games at $70, so why not?

>>716229276
$30-$40 is the sweet spot nowadays. Usually the price of solid AA titles that often have more content and replay value than these AAA $70 games.

>"wait a minute.. i dont buy games!"

>>716226684
>There is a name for this.
Its called the Bungie Strategy. They perfected this type of shit with Destiny.

>>716228760
A single good deed doesn't erase other sins.

>>716225072 (OP)
Nintendo won

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

>>716228762
>because the higher disc capacity costed more on the 360
but the original xbox already used dual-layer DVDs for every single game, same as the 360. did they really publicly lie about this?

>>716225072 (OP)
People's wages haven't kept up with inflation. It is what it is.

>>716225072 (OP)
Outer Worlds 2 isn’t worth $20, let alone $80 or $70.

>>716225584
69.99, to be precise.

>>716230209
This is why it will be on goy pass day 1.

>>716225072 (OP)
I wouldn't play that trash even if they pay me

>>716230297
Why would you pay for games you don’t own? You’re bleeding value.

Unless its a special edition I don't plan to spend more than $60 on a game.

>>716225393
>GTA releases at $100
>poors cry foul
>drops it down to $89.99
>everyone licks the ground that they walk on
Trust the plan

>>716225393
Nigga so used to losing that he can't even take a win without being such a little pussy loser bitch.

>>716227395
I was actually confused when I read the headline. I thought it was a typo when it said $69.99. Fucking hell with taxes you're still spending almost $80 burgers anyways.

>>716227562
surely that $70 goes towards making the game better, more finished and complete at launch, and giving the developers a slightly larger paycheck instead of the c-suite, right?

>>716230407
I would not play that trash even for free.

>>716225584
Thread should have ended here.

>>716230549
I will not buy GTA at $100, $90, or $80. Even $70 is iffy, I never finish those games and the multiplayer is a microtransaction hell full of cheaters.

>>716226157
Games are still cheap compared to 30 years ago.
You forget that inflation exists.

>>716229887
Lol. This is as pretentious as that navy seal meme. Fat fucking gaymers will do this for fourteen hours a day instead of getting their fat fucking asses out of the chair and getting a regular 8 hour day job......................

>>716227562
The cut costs on delivery are ridiculously shifted since then. You don't have to make discs and deliver them and share profit with stores, all you have to do is to let Gaben have his 30% (and even less for bigger companies).

>>716229583
kek

>>716225072 (OP)
>$80 dollars for a sequel that nobody wanted to a game that nobody cared for
I mean, what did they think would happen? They noticed that nobody was preording it so they dropped the price.
They need to drop this shit to $50 max if they want to see any interest in it.

>>716227562
>$100 + tip and company donations via mandatory microtrannies
Failure to meet these prices will label you as poor and therefore not a real Gamer™

>>716227045
source? I've only seeing big numbers for Switch 2

>>716227562
store cut
shelf space
physical media
distribution / shipping
80% smaller userbase
kys

>>716230676
Shut the fuck up about inflation you fucking retards. Wages haven't kept up with it, so even if they had kept prices the same they would still be more expensive

Outer worlds want even a good game, why would they think people want to pay a premium for that shit?
Meanwhile the same company is releasing Grounded 2 (early access) for $40

>>716231109
Grounded 1 was in early access for like 4+ years. And they still never drop it below $20 on sale. No way am I bothering with the sequel until its finishes this time.

>>716231260
It was in early access for 2 years, and they raised the price after the 1.0 release.
And I had way more fun with grounded than I did with outer worlds, so it's crazy that one game was initially double the price.

Well I for one am American and so Im happy to play 10 dollars more for a luxury good. Europoors cant afford it and thats fine.

>>716225072 (OP)
>>716225393
>now they'll have to buy it!
Love how corpos treat games like they're on the same level of necessity as food. Shit games at that.

>>716225072 (OP)
>80 euros for the most 5/10 mediocre game
>We have to be glad they're not charging 90 euros
I give you 15 and I'm going over budget.

>>716225679
>>716225754
Literally posted by shill corden after 14 minutes

Wait, Outer Worlds 2 is already out AND it already failed? I missed this entirely.

>>716225571
This

>>716225072 (OP)
So whose cock are the Oblivion guys sucking to keep staying in business? They keep shitting out flop after flop yet Microsoft somehow hasn't axed them yet, despite having axed studios for less in the past.

this is still going to be a miserable failure and they know it.

>>716225072 (OP)
It must be humiliating for Obsidian.

>>716225393
This, fuck these fucking faggots.

$70 is still way too high for garbage like Outer Worlds, it's insane that Microsoft is treating it like something super highly anticipated
they're still charging fucking $100 for 5 day ADVANCED ACCESS™

>>716232075
>Gamestop was allowed to stay open for a while during covid because they claimed they were an essential business
Christ

>>716225072 (OP)
Yeah that's nice and all, but most people who bought Avowed weren't in a rush to spend another $70 on Outer Worlds 2 to begin with, let alone $80. We're living in a post-Expedition 33 world, $50 or fuck off.

>>716227562
>>716227639
>>716231101
Hey retard wages haven't been adjusted for inflation basically at all.

>>716227562
inflation isn't universal, in truth electronics lowered in price as time went on.
a basic bitch camera costed a grand 30 years ago

>>716225393
Actually you just saved $10, chud. You can thank Microsoft for that.

>>716227639
Yeah it's a cheaper experience which is why the high price is lame lmao

>>716226831
download and install qbittorrent
https://www.qbittorrent.org/download
go to a reputable pirating website
look up game
click on link next to magnet icon
qbit will download the game
install game
profit

>E33 comes out at $50
>something like BG3 which had a hellish development cycle still sticks to $60
>but no you must pay the goy premium for our first party slop

who do they think they are fooling? The only company that will get away with it is nintendo because that customer base is full of borderline religious fanatics

>>716225393
>The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance method commonly studied in social psychology. The persuader attempts to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down, much like a metaphorical slamming of a door in the persuader's face. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, than if that same request is made in isolation

>>716226831
u will catch strays with frog's method above, so use this resource: https://rentry.org/pgames
rember to use any adblock that blocks fake download buttons because those always lead to malware. its the reason why piracy gets bad rep.

>>716227562
Games were barely selling back then. Consumer base has grown

I played video games all my life. I started when i was 10 and I'm 28 right now. Played thousands of games all for free. To this day all the amount of money i spent on games is like 150 bucks because i really wanted to support the devs. God i love PC. And then console c ucks come and say how their DRM box is cheaper

>>716225571
this
unfortunately for them, outer worlds was already a pretty meh game

surely the pre-orders will be rolling in now! The tens of people who liked that first game simply can't resist that price

>>716233693
Not borderline

>>716225072 (OP)
Is anyone really going to buy this at $70 either? I doubt it. I never even touched the first one because all the videos of I saw looked boring and insufferable.

>>716226771
>Highly, highly likely that $80 is not working out for them either. The Switch 2 is a flop because of it.
Uhh anon, about that...

>>716227562
Most games aren't worth $70. Most games aren't even worth $60.

>>716234049
https://steamdb.info/app/1449110/charts/
this is the most blatant PR stunt ever

>>716227142
Yes, because I won't buy it, thereby saving my mind as well as my debit card.

>>716227395
yup

>>716234316
hardware =/= software you dumb fuken moron !

>>716234345
LMAO

>>716225951
thats not something to brag about

>>716234345
guarantee it will already be at least 50% off during the winter sale

>>716225072 (OP)
>don't mess with gamers
so much this! Women already got the memo, why did it take Microsoft so long??

>>716234584
NTA but you said the switch 2 itself was a flop not the games at the end of your sentence.
Maybe rephrase that last part next time.

>>716225393
>>716227395
It's the Xbox one reveal all over again.

>>716233123
They are still riding the new vegas high.

>>716234316
Fastest selling=/=selling well. Learn to read between the lines of marketing and PR jargon, cultist.

>>716233578
Lol everyone who's on here knows how to pirate, bro.

>>716227562
and adjusting it to quality standards this shit is worthless

>>716233123
they think if they keep spamming FROM THE CREATORS OF FALLOUT NEW VEGAS in every trailer, eventually one will be a hit

even tho almost nobody from NV is left there and everyone knows it

>>716233734
Yes, but also, how come all the large western studios decided on the 80 bucks price tag in unison? Are they all talking to each other and conspiring against us? I think they are. I think the top ten largest game companies in the west are all real chummy homies and on first name basis with each other....

>>716227395
i am so tired of retards being psyoped by jewish trickery

>>716227562
Than I'll just wait for it to be 70% off.

>>716235841
So the PS4 is a flop then, got it.

>>716225072 (OP)
>Game companies raise price of games
>people protest
>Comapnies raise price of games even more
>people protest
>Companies take back the second raise
>people are happy with the price

we did it, Reddit

>>716227562
another retard who doesn't know how inflation works

>>716225393
Cool it with the antisemitism

>>716225072 (OP)
Soi slop enjoyers won!

>>716228760
But is the game good? It still looks gay & lame to me. If it's gay & lame I won't even play it for free, because I have better things and better games to spend my time on.

>>716233338
Good. We shouldn't ever have shut down over the chink flu.

>>716225072 (OP)
Wasn't the first game only like $40?

>>716227395
it's hard to care if games are 70, 80, or even 100, I'm not the one buying these things, lives dont depend on these products

>>716227639
Now adjust for purchasing power

Thats still too high.

>lower the price to 70 bucks
>game sells 10000 copies on Steam(up from 9000 copies it would sell at 80 bucks)
>just declare that 99% of players played on gamepass so steam numbers don't matter!

It's gonna sell like shit anyways.

>>716239316
NOOOO I MUST BUY NEW WAHOO MARIO GAME!! MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON IT!

>>716225072 (OP)
im not buying this gay fucking game, the entire first part of outer worlds was you being a cuck to a lesbian mystery meat couple

>>716227562
Adjusted from what?
>>716233896
Back when?

$80 really isn't that expensive for a video game.

>>716240863
True. Games should cost $200 instead. I despite having to share my hobby with poorfag scum.

>>716239898
couldn't pay me to play Sunshine

>>716225072 (OP)
Even after the mass xbox firing, they still kept that incredibly racist art director. I'm passing on this one.

>>716234584
You think they're just using the fucking mii creator??

>>716225072 (OP)
Still too high, not buying.

>>716230676
>>716233359
when you don't see the problem, it's because you are the problem
enjoy gta 6 at $100