Here in our inflation-saddled little world, it's often said that when prices go up, they rarely come down, but inflated prices have come down quite quickly in the realm of Xbox. Today, Microsoft and developer Obsidian announced that upcoming sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds 2 is reigning it in, slashing the base price from $80 to $70 as part of Microsoft's new commitment to "keep our full priced holiday releases" to the old standard, instead of bumping "some" first-party games up to $80, as it previously announced in a wider price hike plan.
This is both good and surprising news. I had some naive hope that a publisher would one day reach the finding out stage of all this financial fucking around, but I didn't expect it to come in under three months. But here we are. Xbox is issuing partial refunds for The Outer Worlds 2 pre-orders as it corrects this pricing overreach.
