Supposedly, they’re rolling back the price increase for all holiday releases.

“We’re focused on bringing players incredible worlds to explore, and will keep our full priced holiday releases, including The Outer Worlds 2, at $69.99 – in line with current market conditions,” an Xbox spokesperson explained in a statement to Windows Central.

If you’ve already pre-ordered The Outer Worlds 2 at the $79.99 price point, you will have to grab refunds at the point of purchase if you’ve already paid up. Microsoft says some retailers will light up with refunds today, but some will start accepting refunds from tomorrow. Then, you can pre-order again at the new $69.99 price tier.

  • illi@sh.itjust.works
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    I guess it never was really worth the 80. I wonder, is it really worth the 70? Or is it similarly made up number?

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      22 hours ago

      I have a suspicion $80 was made up to anchor the price, so when they drop it to $70 stupid people think they won and are getting a deal.

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      It was worth $80 to a few pre-orderers, but not enough for the market analysts to project a profitable launch.

      In monopoly capitalism, the prices are all made up numbers, especially for digital goods, with very little to do with what they cost. If they don’t get enough preorders at $70, they’ll either drop it to $60 or cancel it altogether to maintain “$70 market conditions.”

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      If you’re basing your value judgement on the price of similar games on the market right now then no, it’s very very unlikely to be worth 70. There are critically acclaimed open world games that will likely beat this on content and potential enjoyment / play time for $5-10 right now.

      Realistically, we’re paying for the novelty though, if you’re desperate for something new it might work. I told myself my price point was $60, but there will probably be some sort of discount on the way to or shortly after launch day for the PC version.

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        20 hours ago

        I still have the first on the backlog so I’m good. I really only buy games that are special to me at full price. And at 70 or even 80, they would have to be extra special.

        I was just thinking aloud. If they set a price and now slashed it before launch, it clearly wasn’t worth as much - with the corpos arguing they have to up the price due to cost… this is pretty much them showing it plain and simple it’s bullshit