{"id":3315,"date":"2025-07-23T17:46:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/microsoft-backtracks-on-80-the-outer-worlds-2-pricing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T17:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:46:53","slug":"microsoft-backtracks-on-80-the-outer-worlds-2-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/microsoft-backtracks-on-80-the-outer-worlds-2-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft backtracks on $80 The Outer Worlds 2 pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>There&rsquo;s hope that the gaming industry won&rsquo;t follow Nintendo&rsquo;s lead with $80 pricing. (Well, at least not yet.) On Wednesday, Microsoft backtracked on the price increase for <em>The Outer Worlds 2<\/em>. The game now costs $70, which itself was considered outrageous only a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft told <em>Windows Central<\/em> that those who already pre-ordered Obsidian&rsquo;s shooter at $80 can get refunds at the point of purchase. Unfortunately, you can&rsquo;t simply get a $10 price adjustment. You&rsquo;ll have to refund the full $80 and then pre-order again for $70. I&rsquo;m beginning to think consumer-friendliness isn&rsquo;t the priority here.<\/p>\n<p>The $80 pricing push began with <em>Mario Kart World<\/em>. Comments by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford initially suggested <em>Borderlands 4<\/em> might have followed. Fortunately, 2K Games saw something in the backlash that made it balk; it&rsquo;s launching at $70. A Bluesky user summed it up in a reply to Obsidian&rsquo;s U-turn. &ldquo;Consumer advocacy in this awful state of the industry WORKS,&rdquo; &#8234;@johnbrebbia posted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> Nintendo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The gaming industry is caught in a godawful whirlwind of layoffs, studio closures and price increases. That&rsquo;s happening against a backdrop of rising costs for consumers. Meanwhile, the gaming industry is projected to reach $189 billion this year, a 3.4 percent increase. That&rsquo;s a combustible mixture if ever there was one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da \">\n<div data-wf-benji-page-context='{\"pageUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/microsoft-backtracks-on-80-the-outer-worlds-2-pricing-173027532.html\",\"spaceid\":\"1197802876\",\"site\":\"engadget\",\"hashtag\":\"news;the-outer-worlds-2;gaming;obsidian;xbox;videogames\",\"lmsid\":\"a0V0W00000HOQu8UAH\",\"lpstaid\":\"72c6d39a-c9b0-4742-b9d3-88b4eb578a9d\",\"pt\":\"content\",\"pd\":\"non_modal\",\"pct\":\"story\"}' data-wf-benji-wafer-config=\"{}\" data-wf-benji-config='{\"positions\":{\"LREC1-72c6d39a-c9b0-4742-b9d3-88b4eb578a9d1753292811644\":{\"id\":\"LREC1-72c6d39a-c9b0-4742-b9d3-88b4eb578a9d1753292811644\",\"region\":\"index\",\"size\":[[300,250]],\"kvs\":{\"loc\":\"mid_center\"},\"path\":\"\/22888152279\/us\/eng\/ros\/dt\/us_eng_ros_dt_mid_center\"}}}' id=\"sda-LREC1-72c6d39a-c9b0-4742-b9d3-88b4eb578a9d1753292811644\" class=\"wafer-benji caas-sda-benji-ad caas-sda-gam-container caas-sda-gam-container-center\" data-wf-trigger=\"onLoad\" data-wf-margin=\"100 0\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<div id=\"LREC1-72c6d39a-c9b0-4742-b9d3-88b4eb578a9d1753292811644\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ironically, Obsidian&rsquo;s sci-fi RPG deals with themes of late-stage capitalism. The developer even deployed in-world satire to announce the pricing change: &ldquo;Dear Galactic Citizens! We have received your SOS via skip drone about the pricing&hellip;&rdquo; Winking at one&rsquo;s audience is usually a good thing, but this strikes me as more of a &ldquo;dude, read the room&rdquo; moment.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, <em>The Outer Worlds 2<\/em> is set to arrive on October 29. It will be available for Xbox Series X\/S, PS5 and PC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Microsoft backtracks on $80 The Outer Worlds 2 pricing<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s hope that the gaming industry won&rsquo;t follow Nintendo&rsquo;s lead with $80 pricing. (Well, at least not yet.) On Wednesday, Microsoft backtracked on the price increase for The Outer Worlds 2. The game now costs $70, which itself was considered outrageous only a few years ago. Microsoft told Windows Central that those who already pre-ordered&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/microsoft-backtracks-on-80-the-outer-worlds-2-pricing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Microsoft backtracks on $80 The Outer Worlds 2 pricing&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}