The Outer Worlds Sells 2 Million Units, Take-Two Talks Subscription Model

@ButDuuude: a game where you can get virtual blow jobs and cruise for 2011-GPU-tech hookers will attract a lot of simpletons and low IQ players, why else you think they included that lowlife crap in a video game to begin with? If Outer Worlds had hookers and titty bars too it would have sold twice as much, some devs have morals, others don't.

@ButDuuude: relevance?

@doodoflife: Outer World was good, but just too much blablabla and most the characters looked like clones. I kept falling asleep after a few hours into the game, I did not even pay attention anymore to dialogue and just clicked through them.

Nevertheless, Vegas had action, much more to do and variation, and the voice acting was never too long and always enjoyable, so this was obviously just a prototype to see where it leads, and it was a major success, so expect the next game to be much better, they'll know.

@doodoflife: Loved Fallout 3 and New Vegas. I didn't even make it as far as you did in Outer Worlds. Every part of what I played felt like an inferior attempt at a New Vegas style of game. I didn't feel like wasting another second on Outer Worlds and decided I'd rather play New Vegas again instead.

@reznik00: I love it. For instance, I did not go with Gears 5 hype train at all (am a Gears 1-3 guy), so after encountering too many bugs and simplified gameplay, I gave it the quits, and did not even lose 1$.

@reznik00: Game Pass is great for people that don’t buy games.

@reznik00:

Game Pass tracks the behavior of the users like how Steam does and with that intel companies have a better understanding of what is popular and what sells, video games have become a very expensive business.

Companies need to be profitable and thanks to pirating and resellers like GameStop game companies need to create new ways to create revenue so you can’t say it is 100% the fault of the companies how video games came to be the way they are.

Competition is a good thing and nothing is stopping Steam from giving publishers and developers better deals than the competition except greed and the monopoly the game store has created.

@reznik00: Anti-consumer service? The only people who say this are either people who never used it, blind fanboys, or both.

@reznik00: Game Pass may not be free, but I've played enough games off it that I've saved waaay more not buying them than I've payed in sub fees. For me, Game Pass has been great.

@reznik00: it’s a practice known in economics as dumping. You sell a product at a loss in order to hurt the competition and attract consumers to your company. Once said company create a large enough consumer base, prices go back to normal.

Microsoft can deny all they want, but it’s really obvious what they are doing.

@reznik00: You are right Game Pass and even PSN is not free and as long as you keep the subscription up to date the games are free to play. Also the games in this program are not permanent as they may be taken out down the road. Even with that I value the service as I get to test drive the games before I decide to buy them and I like that versus me buying it outright never got an chance to see how it plays. This method is better than any review because you have to trust the reviewer's review is not biased or incorrect and when you pay you get no refund.

This has nothing to do with being an fan boy and as pointed out if you are PS fan you have PSN that does the same. One other thing that is an bonus after awhile the games in Game Pass are sold at discount to it's subscribers 20% for game and 10% for add on. There is no blindness there as I save money as well. I am an subscriber to PSN and Game Pass and been for some time and in that long run It has not hurt me.

@reznik00: in what way? Gamepass is entirely optional for 3rd party developers so if you see one on there then they wanted to be on there.many smaller companies praise gamepass as so many people who wouldn't ushaly play there games try them out and become fans. Im sure i read they are paid per play much like Netflix. Can i ask why you seem to think its so terrible? Because for me personally gamepass is the greatest thing to come out of this generation as the only game i paid for in 2019 was fallen order so it works great for me.

@idakooz: it was more a test-run to check reactions of the public, I assume they expected it to be what you said (they're not dumb) but the results at the end were the opposite. Next game they'll make will be like you suggested, I mean, they're dumb otherwise. I don't think they're dumb at this point and M$ will give them full support.

@idakooz: To keep it out of development Hell.

They had a fully-finished engine, tools, and assets when they STARTED New Vegas, and (as I have to constantly remind folks) it was a broken quest shit-show with constant back-and-forth level loading when it shipped.

Outer Worlds was completely new on every level and a truly amazing start. They built a helluva lot of foundation for a brand new IP, new assets, new engine, etc.

...and it was shocklingly functional

@idakooz: They cheaped out and wanted to release it quicker.

@idakooz: Not every game like this has to be a gigantic world that takes 50-100 hours. This game was the perfect size and amount of time. I love Fallout and Elder Scrolls, but it was nice to have a condensed version of those.

@idakooz: The Outer Worlds was a smaller budget indie (sort of) project. Obsidian was working within the resources they had. Since they're owned by Microsoft now, I imagine any sequel will be more of a AAA project.

I agree and there is an bonus, you get an discount on when the time comes if you are an subscriber.