'Capitalism Was the True Villain All Along': The Outer Worlds 2 Fans React as Sequel Hopes Fade, Say Microsoft's Initial $80 Price Killed Hype

The Outer Worlds 2 fans are lamenting the quality that developer Obsidian is not moving connected a sequel, and person blamed Microsoft's archetypal determination to terms the crippled astatine $80 for helping termination the series' hype, contempt the aboriginal U-turn.

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported connected the authorities of seasoned RPG workplace Obsidian pursuing an exhausting 2025. Over the people of 8 months, the institution launched Grounded 2 successful aboriginal access, followed by some The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed aft protracted developments.

Of the 3 games, lone Grounded 2 was qualified arsenic a occurrence — and portion further titles successful the Avowed beingness are planned, a 3rd Outer Worlds rubric is not successful production. Unsurprisingly, this quality has disappointed fans of the space-based role-playing crippled series, who person offered their ain opinions connected what went wrong.

"I consciousness similar TOW2 paid for the sins of TOW 1 and Avowed," Godlike013 wrote successful a lengthy thread connected The Outer World's main subreddit, suggesting that The Outer Worlds 2 had deserved a amended reception. "After 2 mid games successful a enactment antagonistic sentiment unfairly fell connected TOW2 erstwhile it is simply a genuinely bully game."

"I'll beryllium honest, it's not astonishing successful the least," countered Lafitte1812. "TOW2 is, successful each imaginable mode a amended game. It's a nighttime and time difference, and astir of my problems person been fixed, but astatine the extremity of the time I inactive don't truly springiness a damn astir the universe, and affirmative connection of rima unsocial is lone truthful impactful."

"I'm not surprised," agreed CardTrickOTK. "I deliberation it was amended than the archetypal successful a batch of ways, but erstwhile BG3 drops and lets you bash immoderate frankly insane things with the companions, I deliberation a batch of radical had their standards raised for RPGs, and this crippled is conscionable okay."

Several different fans noted the caller motorboat of different RPGs — and peculiarly 2025's beloved Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 — arsenic having provided pugnacious contention and adjacent tougher comparisons successful immoderate areas specified arsenic communicative and fully-fleshed retired characters. Others suggested that the lengthy hold for The Outer Worlds 2 had besides raised expectations, which were not met by the sequel.

"The archetypal crippled was unthinkable but lacked content," wrote RUKnight31. "We excused that owed to constricted fund and dev clip for a caller franchise. Given the accrued resources and improvement clip that went into OW2 we expected to person a batch much contented than OW. It didn't and the evident 'business decisions' that led to chopped contented sucked to see."

A larger fig of fans expressed vexation astatine Microsoft for the game's pricing fiasco, which initially saw The Outer Worlds 2 acceptable to go the company's archetypal $80 crippled — earlier the institution enactment the inaugural connected intermission and backtracked. While the crippled yet launched astatine $70, fans accidental that the snafu dominated headlines and killed hype that the crippled struggled to triumph back. Some adjacent pointed retired the irony of the concern happening to The Outer Worlds 2, a crippled which tells the communicative of radical caught up successful the actions of megacorporation.

"So capitalism was the existent villain each along," QQBearsHijacker quipped.

"They overshot asking $80 and that turned a batch of gamers off," RUKnight31 continued. "The backtrack to $70 was excessively small excessively late. In this system $60-$70 is already a lot. Trying to propulsion $80 arsenic the caller norm was outlandish for leisure."

"Did not assistance astatine each that the biggest splash this crippled made connected the wide gaming water was the anserine 80 bucks fiasco that Microsoft tried to push," agreed ElGodPug. "Like, adjacent aft they reduced to 70 (still excessively overmuch IMO), archetypal impressions are beauteous important, and to galore it was 'oh hey, it's the sequel to that 7/10 crippled asking america to wage 20 bucks more'."

"There were a batch of large RPGs this twelvemonth and unluckily this 1 was forgettable," Philosophers-Bone bluntly summed up. "Not horrible oregon anything, conscionable didn't basal out. I'm gladsome I played it connected Game Pass and didn't ammunition retired $80 oregon immoderate insane terms they listed it for."

IGN's The Outer Worlds 2 reappraisal returned an 8/10, and stated that "once you get past a anemic archetypal act, The Outer Worlds 2 sharpens Obsidian’s RPG look with smarter penning and amended combat." We continued: "[It] doesn’t effort to rewrite Obsidian’s RPG playbook, but it’s yet different beardown refinement."

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