Hellblade 2 - $50, digital only!

MS really wants you to subscribe to GamePass lol.. Thoughts, SW? I’m definitely not liking this trend. Give people options!! At least IP_Daily and I can agree on this topic lol.

@SolidGame_basic: It's 8 hours long.

Only Sony charges you full price for games that short.

Everything I play is digital.🙃

The first Hellblade was AA with a budget of $10 million. Hellblade II is a AA game as well. The asking price and delivery method is that of a AA game. Makes sense

That's disappointing. Hopefully a third party publisher like limitedrun will get to do a physical release at some point.

I had no interest in this game to begin with, but MS has no excuse to not make a physical copy of this game.

#digitalmonopoly

Just like Alan Wake 2, pass.

Folks still crying about digital?🤷🏽‍♂️ Eventually the old fart gamers would realize that their voice on this matter is equal to

Don’t you have Phil on speed dial? tell him stop this digital only nonsense!

Yea, AW2 being digital only was a big reason I didn’t get it at launch. I will wait until it’s a bargain.

Well I’m a Game Pass subscriber so that’s where I’ll be playing it. 🤷‍♂️

Digital is the future...unfortunate for those who like physical copies. I was big on physical only when I had consoles but I'm on Steam so only digital and only Steam for me...which is why I haven't picked up Alan Wake 2 or Kingdom Hearts on Epic

I'd be the last person to have Phil's number.

And secondly you think that buying AW 2 at a cheaper price is some sort of gotcha, you're still buying it and thus supporting digital, use you brain man.

Expecting this to be a 5/10 linear as **** six hours long experience. I said it before, and i will say it again, its Ryse Son Of Rome of this generation.

And think about it, it took them ages to make this game, and its only $50? Why? Because its a half assed experience made from the ground up to be rented on GP for $1.

Why are people complaining?

We just had the 2023 year review where 80% of us were buying digital

Its almost like we just want to complain on the internet.........or at the very least when its MS

Imagine getting butthurt that others have a different opinion to you.

And yet Remnant 2 and Atlas Fallen to name a couple had both a digital and physical release and were both AA games, and both companies make FAR less than what MS does, so there is no excuse for MS not to release a physical version.

Damn, I usually don’t say this, but IP_Daily rek’ing people!

You're complaining about people who voice their opinion on how they would like to buy their entertainment.

So you're an advocate for less choice, weird hill to die on but hey you do you.

Im not taking a position at all.

I buy all of my PC games digital, all console games physical.

My point was we have people complaining about digital games, DRM, microtransactions, etc.............then we (as an industry) go out and buy digital content by a wide margin.

Thats my point, im not advocating for digital only releases.

Some of the same people in this thread complaining have talked about their digital purchases.

Just to be clear, i'm not against digital, i'm against 100% digital. I buy cheap indie games on Xbox when they're on sale. Expecting indie games to get a physical release is fanciful. I'm also not against people buying AA or AAA games that way, I am however 110% for choices on how people buy their games.

Having less options on where and how you purchase games is anti-consumer, it's crazy to think any other way.

If digital is the only way to purchase games in the future, then I will go full retro (im halfway there already)

It maybe just me, but I see bad things happening if the gaming industry was to go fully digital.

GP for the win.

Can't wait!

Your first post suggested otherwise (imo) maybe you should have posted this comment instead. Also there is a digital absolutist in this thread that you never mentioned, so you can see why I posted a reply to your comment.

The reason you buy digital is because PC gamers threw away their rights to multiple purchasing options and that's the only way to purchase now except for the very few collectors editions etc.

I understand that digital is now the leading way to purchase games, i'm not against, i'm against digital being the only way to purchase.

As I posted earlier there are games that released last year that too are AA games, and they released physical version, so MS has NO excuse not to release one either.

Digital is a scam in my eyes. I mean there is no reason a digital game should cost the same as a physical version or even more (in my country) they should be cheaper, it's as simple as that but gamers have let this fact slip through the net and have just accepted it.

We are definitely on the same page.

100% digital would be a disaster for the industry I believe.

The issue I was responding to are the usual suspects on this board complaining about digital games.............only to support digital games.

I wanted Alan Wake 2 physical copy just to collect but they unfortunately chose digital only

I wouldn't buy a physical copy anyways. Nice to see them not charge $70 for an 8 hour game. I'll be playing on GP since MS gives me the option to play their first party games on launch day with the service.

AMC is charging $50 to see a movie now?!

Yes, solid talks a lot of 💩 I agree, and has zero conviction. If Sony went 100% digital tomorrow, he would make a thread about how he's always been pro digital lol.

So, I can see how annoying people like him can be.

A quick example of an all-digital future looks like this. On the Xbox marketplace Forza Horizon 4 which came out nearly 6yrs ago is currently selling the standard edition for $99.95 in Australia, so I assume that's $60 in the US. There is no reason why it should cost that much 6yrs later, and physical copies go for as little as $40 Australian ($20 US) and there are multiple copies at different prices, whereas you're stuck with the digital price until MS has a sale that lasts a week and then back to full price again.

This isn't a bash MS thread for me as i'm a lem on these boards, it's just that MS should be offering as many options for people to buy the game, not limiting consumers options.

You go "rek'd" too solid, don't forget that.

What Playstation game has been 8 hours at $70?

No physical no buy

But MS doesn't care I guess, cus all of us going to play it on gamepass

No... uh, buy.

@silentchief: Relax, bro. I am making a joke.

But, there were two Ratchet and Clank games that were 5 hours or less.

The boomers crying bc they can not buy more for the wall and shelf 🤣😂🤣

Sorry you can not hoard plastic - maybe clean up you old news time magazine to be busy if you can not play this game bc you do not want digital 😜

@last_lap: don't lie, we all know you love uncle Phil...Saint Phil.

The man is without a doubt the greatest Xbox ceo ever in history, and no one else comes close.

@last_lap said:

Imagine getting butthurt that others have a different opinion to you.

lol, wth?

Surely that's sarcasm right, RIGHT?

How can you? Games can only be enjoyed if you buy physical. Everyone knows this.🙃

Nothing about this is out of the ordinary at all.

If you have a problem, then it's with the industry as a whole, not this specific product.

31yo boomer here, no physical no buy

Because after I beat this 6-8 hour game I can't sell it if it's digital.

Not about the shelf, about locking in my money for no reason

@Pedro: What can I say? I’m a horrible person. 😅

You guys have no idea how hard this game is gonna bomb. Be ready.

And yet the first game was released on disc. So being digital only is out of the ordinary.

EVERY other AA or AAA MS game has been released on disc that I can think of. To say this is not out of the ordinary is wrong.

Even as a PC gamer and I do in fact buy my console games digitally (except Nintendo Switch) I don't like seeing game companies going 100% digital and I still like seeing gamers having more options between physical and digital.

MS knows its audience will just play Hellblade 2 on Game Pass, so of course they're gonna try this crap. All I can tell you all is this. Vote with your wallets. Tell'em you ain't buying it. It's that simple.

As far as Hellblade 2 goes, I was not on the hype train for this at all. Yes, I own the first game on Steam but I got that game on a sale. No way I'm gonna resub to Game Pass just for Hellblade 2. Like the first game but the sequel wasn't my idea. I'll get it when it's dirty cheap as I did for the first game.

The Order 1886, Miles Morales, Rift Apart, Until Dawn

Stupid non-Sony fanboys coming in here with their stupid facts.

I'm buying FF 7 rebirth and Rise of the Ronin day one, I'm the biggest Sony fanboy there ever was :p

But your wrong.

The order 1886 was $ 59.99, Miles Morales was $ 49.99 , Until Dawn was $59.99. The only game that launched for $70 was Rift apart and it had more then 8 hours of gameplay.

I only buy digital on XBOX, so this isn't an issue for me. I like that it will be cheaper than a typical game.

I still haven't sat and played the first Hellblade and I bought that ages ago.

Although I have the physical PS4 version of Hellblade 1 it doesnt bother me as much not getting a physical release of Hellblade 2 since it isnt coming to PS5 anyway. PC is my only option to play this game and I only buy digital for it, although only on deep deep sales

AW2 though... I want my physical copy goddammit