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Take-Two CEO Says Red Dead Redemption Port Pricing Is 'Commercially Accurate' - RDR2 has sold 55m copies worldwide
Hypereides
Member
You sound like the prime "customer" to be lured into more shark cards. Still stand by the naive part, but hey, hope it works out for you.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Luigi Mario
Member
Friendly reminder that in RDR2, which was Dan Houser's last project as lead writer, the person who is inadvertently responsible for Arthur getting tuberculosis and therefore his inevitable death is Leopold Strauss, a soulless loan shark who only cares about the money.
rhodesianshepard
Member
People said the same thing about RDR2. "Rockstar is going to focus on online multiplayer while the single player will be bare bones!". When in reality, it was the exact opposite. RDR2 had the most single player content of any Rockstar game by a mile while its online was barebones as fuck
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Punished Miku
Gold Member
Got it a while ago for like $10. Gotta love commercial inaccuracy.
Drizzlehell
Banned
There's something about that phrase that reminds me of phrases like "vertically challenged"
If he was speaking straight it would just be "we think we're justified in charging people full price for this 10+ year old game that we didn't even put any additional effort into"
If he was speaking straight it would just be "we think we're justified in charging people full price for this 10+ year old game that we didn't even put any additional effort into"
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Fox Mulder
Member
That shitty ass gta definitive edition sold over 10 million copies pretty quickly. They know their audience.
Torrent of Pork
Banned
I'd hardly call hours of unskippable horseback ride exposition dumps, and needlessly slow 'cinematic' looting animations compelling content. I don't think I've ever played a videogame that respected my time less.
Imp the Dimp
Member
Yeah people are braindead. Wasn't this supposed to be a right leaning forum after the 2017 drama? This reads like any economically illiterate Reddit thread. You charge what you believe the market will bear - why would you charge less? Anyone who doesn't value the game at that price can simply wait because games predictably depreciate in price, usually relatively quickly.
brian0057
Banned
Unless your name is Nintendo, where a $10 discount is a miracle.
Majormaxxx
Member
in addition to the SZ reference, he kinda looks like Dr. Fauci
diffusionx
Gold Member
He's right, look at the dogshit GTA package and how it sold. I went on reddit the week it came out and found tons of posts like, "fuck the reviews, it's my childhood" with pictures of it. It was bizarre.
That said, even if this is just a barebones port it's still an excellent game.
That said, even if this is just a barebones port it's still an excellent game.
Neo_GAF
Banned
yes, this is a right-wing forum and i also do wonder why some of those conservatives here are getting fired up. this should be right up their alley.
gta5 still costs 30-50euros
and now it is on ps5/xsx.
the game was released on ps360 and still gets updates. i know you dont have to offer it for free, but at this point... rockstar is making millions just off the seasons in GTA.
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AlteredForms
Banned
Strauss Dicklick has one of the most punchable faces amongst CEOs. He's even worser than Bobby Cuntlick!
NoLootBoxDev
Member
CEO
Shake Your Rump
Member
Stuff like this just confirms my theory that the global market is now too large to punish bad ideas. Even if a fraction of a fraction of a percent support a practice, it will be financially sustainable.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Yeah, £40 is too much. £20 and I’d bite for Switch. It’ll sell like hot cakes I’m sure though because most Switch owners have been conditioned to pay whatever the fuck the publisher asks for.
Imp the Dimp
Member
You're not entitled to any one video game. Buy something else. The market is huge and cheaper than ever.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Their just trying to do a Nintendo.
brian0057
Banned
I know. I wasn't complaining about it.
I was just pointing out the fact that Nintendo games rarely drop in price.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Can't make that promise if the port is competent.
Rocco Schiavone
Member
People bought the GTA Definitive turd like crazy. Therefore they do not have to exert themselves.
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MMaRsu
Banned
The port is by definition not competent if it runs at 30fps.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
It takes a special kind of stupid to pre order or buy it straight up before anything is revealed about its condition
VulcanRaven
Member
I wonder why RDR2 doesn't have a next-gen patch? Xbox Series S version has a resolution lower than 1080p.
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Rocco Schiavone
Member
After the Shitinitive edition you should be careful to preorder any game from them.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
The only saving grace at this point for me is that Grove St isnt behind it and that there's actually R* (or ex R*) employees having some involvement.
Which still somehow leaves me without much confidence in the product.
Which still somehow leaves me without much confidence in the product.
Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
We all know this will be the reaction on Thursday when we see this cheap, low effort port sold to the lowest bidder. No offence to the devs who worked on this, but Rockstar/take two just are a caricature of one of the greedy corporations in GTA but now in real life. Maybe when Dan left that was the signal fire that they were going to be less than gracious with the way they were going to treat historic IP going forward and he didn’t like that. Who knows.
ChoosableOne
ChoosableAll
I thought the same way before getting one, but most games receive discounts similar to those in other stores. First-party games have discounts ranging from 30% to 50%, and if there's no discount, you can use a voucher code to get 20% off on one of two games.
MiguelItUp
Member
It's true. Out there people will have opinions on the pricing of many things, but there will also be people that are willing to pay that price and don't question anything. It's a shame, but that's how it goes. The more those people buy at that price, the more we'll continue to see things at that price.
That CEO sucks though. It's absurd to think of a 13 year old game ported with no enhancements being that price, lol.
Doczu
Member
Probably better cause it's based on the 360 version which had a slightly higher resolution, better foliage some textures and no screen tearing.
Guerilla Munch
Member
People will buy this at $50, especially on Switch, because it has no equal. Has a better western game been released in the past 13 years (aside from maybe the sequel)? I haven't played this since its initial launch on PS3 so I'm looking forward to playing through it again on a portable, if the port is decent enough.
This is one of the rare times a third party is able to act like Nintendo and sell a 13 year old game for $50, because like Mario/Zelda/Smash/Kart, this game is still unrivaled in its genre.
This is one of the rare times a third party is able to act like Nintendo and sell a 13 year old game for $50, because like Mario/Zelda/Smash/Kart, this game is still unrivaled in its genre.