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[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 105 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You criticize society, yet you participate in it!

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] unhrpetby@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I am very intelligent.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

We're basically forced to buy this game.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ain't payin no $80 for no game

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

To be fair, I wouldn't pay $1 for no game. If I'm paying money—no matter the amount—I expect to actually get a game.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just wait 5 years until it goes on sale for $20

https://steamdb.info/app/578650/

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 month ago

That's a bit more of a rare occurrence: I wouldn't count on it happening for OW2 as well.

[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was even free at some point

But the game is so bad that it isn't worth your time

[–] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 month ago

Man, there better be a ton more content than the original to command that price. The first was a decent game, but it felt pretty boring to me, and it's wild that they could use a whole solar system as the setting and it feel so small.

[–] net00@lemmy.today 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The regional pricing of this game is also garbage. I see on steamdb that a few third world countries (where I live) got prices similar or higher than the US for this game.

I'm not buying that shit until it's more than 60% off. Like for instance the alters has sane regional pricing. Most poor countries get a hefty discount from the US price...

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Lmao china is only 55usd while europe is a whopping 92usd. I hope it flop.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

"Capitalism subsumes all critique"

[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

tbh a 20$ game isn’t any less capitalist

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

I will not be buying any game for $80. lmao

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Being aware of the irony is free. How you respond is completely up to you.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just looked it up, and I'm surprised to say that Spider-Man 2 (just released on PC back in February I believe) is still only $60. I mean, sure it's over a year old from it's original PS5 release, but the fact they're not asking $80 for it is kinda nice.

And Oblivion Remastered is "only" $50.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

$50 today is equivalent to about $28.50 19 years ago. So it's effectively half price lmao

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Except wages didn't increase that much, and price changes drive inflation, not the other way around.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Feels like we're dancing around the topic of purchasing power collapse so it might as well be said - this is a bread and circuses issue at heart.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I meant it's "'only' $50" because it's an entire overhaul of the original game, rebuilt from the ground up. Similar to how Skyblivion is gonna be.

Like, that's a damn good price for one of the best RPGs ever made, with the amount of work that went into it this time around too. I'm not complaining about paying that for such a great game.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Clair Obscur (a gorgeous, new game) is 50 bucks. I rest my case.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I mean sure, plenty of new games can still look great and be relatively affordable. Nowhere in my comments did I say otherwise, or even imply it.

I really feel like people are jumping on these comments because I dared to say a couple recent games aren't selling at $80.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Oblivion? One of the best RPGs ever made? This is a joke, right? It's not even the best Bethesda game.

edit: fixing autocorrect mistakes

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I had to let the point slide, never argue matters of taste with people who eat shit

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

The PS5 version was actually ported to PC a full year before the official PC release by a bunch of Brazilians. In many ways with was even better than the official release. Only downside is that it didn't have ray tracing. But if you don't care about that then it was worth playing.

Of course this has nothing to do with your point, just saying.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

i watched a video about the new Marathon game and how it lacked the political ideologies and warring nations of the original trilogy, and filled the hole with a very basic vague anti corporate aesthetic. this is essentially why I found the first outer worlds so dull, it went out of its way to say nothing about anything beyond corporate power dynamics

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Microsoft sets the price and they whant you to subscribe to gamepass so they can lock you in and eventually shitefy it

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

will have 3 hours of content like the first one.

[–] suswrkr@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

it's free on usenet. just saying.

[–] cygnosis@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

isthereanydeal.com

freetokeep.gg

One of my favorite games is trying to get the best price on a game I want. My backlog is a few years long at this point, so I don't need to buy any new games. But if I can find one I want for 90% off or more, I usually buy it anyways.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Developers need to eat and pay rent.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let’s not pretend developers are going to get any money from these price increases. It’s all going to the publisher’s shareholders.

[–] RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

Which is why I avoid games with big publishers and shareholders.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So the developers of $20 games are homeless?

[–] yamper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

you know that games are made with different numbers of people on a team right

Lots of Indie game developers actually don’t make enough to live off.