Did anyone pony up the 100USD to get "early access" to OW2?
I did - I saw good reports of Steam Deck performance, and since the first game was solid (certainly better than RPGs from Bethesda or Bioware or Blizzard in the last decade) and this was reportedly bigger and deeper, I knew I'd want to play the DLC for this - because again for the original it was well written and added a lot.
To be clear - unlike Avowed, which was truly JUST a '$4/day early play tax', Outer Worlds 2 gets you TWO expansions and some extra items as well as early play. And given that each expansion for Outer Worlds was ~10 hours, that is a pretty solid 'Premium'.
I would have been happier if it was $90, as that would have been $10 per DLC rather than $15, but oh well I also got some pre-order bonus items that I didn't care about.
That said - I am not playing it early as I am about to hit the final dungeon of Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak.
It doesn't help that the "base" game is 80 bucks. I wonder how much GP is depressing (pre) sales.
But the base game is NOT $80 - it is $70, like (sadly) pretty much everything else new these days. And yes, I STILL think $70 is too high!
Obsidian is one of very few game developers I will pay full price for at this point (Larian, Owlcat ... um, that's it).
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There is a reason people warn against depending on AI. It completely lacks context, is often at least somewhat inaccurate (like here) and gives equal weight to the myriad of posts and comments made at the behest of an apartheid gem mining nepo baby space Karen because 'it has pronouns'. Certain Microsoft game studios in particular Obsidian have been targeted for hate-fueled review bombs for some reason. Many of those came from people who played less than 1 hour, meaning that they bought the game, review bombed, then refunded.
Avowed carries a solid 80% review score, about equal to loads of other RPGs. Negative reception is easily dismissed - not talking about legitimate criticisms around bestiary variety, balance, or other things. Most people I have talked with feel like 8/10 is pretty fair, some see it higher and others lower. No real gamer I see calls it 100% nor an abject failure.
Also - using ONLY Steam info to 'prove' the failure of a game that EVERYONE KNOWS was predominantly a Game Pass game is like using PSP sales of Final Fantasy 7 to gauge success or failure. Avowed was PUSHED on Game Pass HARD. It is not surprising that it underperformed on Steam, it was a $70 Steam release of a game people were playing on their $15 - 20 Game Pass.
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