#I am nonetheless pissed that The Outer Worlds 2 is digital solely on Xbox – Destructoid

Charging $80 for a digital-only sport that’s complete story is lampooning capitalism is an ironic coincidence right here, however by some means Xbox has managed to discover a approach with The Outer Worlds 2—and that i’m nonetheless pissed off about it.

When the preliminary announcement that The Outer Worlds 2 can be digital solely on Xbox methods discovered its approach on-line just a few weeks in the past throughout the Xbox Video games Showcase 2025, it ticked me off. And now that I’ve had time to take a seat again and watch the discourse unfold throughout weeks the place we’ve seen large Xbox layoffs, video games cancelled, and different unlucky conditions unford. That feeling has not gone away.

This sense was solely boosted once I walked into my native online game retailer, noticed a field for The Outer Worlds 2 deluxe version for pre-order on Xbox, obtained excited, after which noticed the textual content “Digital Sport Code” slapped on the field like some sort of insult.

The audacity to cost $80 for a digital sport alone is dangerous sufficient, when the entire concept behind digital video games to start with was slicing prices from manufacturing to make video games cheaper and simpler to search out instead if folks want to go down that route, makes me extra mad than I care to confess. With the key phrase right here being ‘various.’ Digital was at all times an possibility for large video games like this, not the ONLY possibility.

I do know I’m most likely one of many solely people to care about this (and if I’m not, please hold me sane by saying one thing within the feedback beneath), however I feel this amongst different choices the Xbox workforce has revamped the yr’s like closing Tango Gameworks after Hello-Fi Rush turn out to be a beloved title, make me really feel just like the folks on the prime of Xbox are out of contact with players and solely care about forcing folks into extra Xbox Sport Move subscriptions, because it’s clear that that is the place Xbox sees its future.

I do know I’m waffling. If something, I wanted an area to put in writing down my frustrations, however I actually hope Xbox reserves this resolution by some means and offers Xbox house owners some type of bodily media, at the least sooner or later for individuals who accumulate video games and love video games.

And it’s not like the sport doesn’t have any type of bodily media. Thank no matter deity that you could purchase bodily copies of the sport on the PS5, if not for the sake of those that love accumulating bodily media, however for the prospect of sport preservation.