Why do people complain about the price so much?

[Mazak]

To be completely honest, $50 isn't that bad when you consider it.
Porting a 14 year old game made strictly for console controls to PC would require a ridiculous amount of work; coming from a programmer I'd say it's a fair price, albeit I am just a student and not some highly educated one with several degrees.
Not to mention if you convert it $/T, I personally will get my share out of this game but at the end of the day to each his own.

edit: Lord above stop having ♥♥♥♥ measuring contests with other about either "owning the game" or "being a sheep because you own the game", I'm personally done with this discussion because it is very literally just people trying to prove that their ♥♥♥♥ is bigger than somebody elses.
Those who own the game? I hope you enjoy it.
Those who don't and are waiting for a sale? I hope it comes soon and that you enjoy it.
Those pirating the game? I hope it's a safe pirate and that you enjoy it.
Those who aren't getting the game? I hope you play games you like and enjoy it.

[Ryulightorb]

Originally posted by Matti:

Originally posted by Panky..:

funny drivel

port costs 40$ on sale 1 week after release, get over it and get a job.
yes i use my brain to save money on silent hill 2, maybe you should do the same on red dead redemption, if you cant afford, it.

jesus broke people...

#1 a lot of the people complaining can afford it
#2 it's $56 here on sale which to put it in comparison i bought the game on release for $69 brand new

So that's $12 difference if you want to play the whole "but the cost of inflation" that is a $20 difference.

At full price the game is ....more expensive accounting for inflation than it was on release in 2018 by a dollar.

So it's understandable people aren't ok with the full price

[Squiggle Cheeks]

It's probably a cash grab to pay for some other project.
The price isn't the deal breaker for me personally. It's the 3rd party account requirement.
I can see the price making some sense if there were a bunch of up to date support likr they are doing with Lolipop Leatherface.
The only other reason i can see that price being a good idea is if they have good reason to think the game won't sell well. Then they would need to balance the price with potential customers.
Sort of like the million dollar rocket launcher. They only cost a few thousand to make but R&D is expensive, and if they only make 100 of them, then they hike up the price to cover R&D. I think i read somewhere that if only 100 copies of windows were sold, each one would cost over a million dollars.
Rockstar doesn't seem to have put much effort into marketing RDR. It's one of my all time facorites and even i only noticed the steam release by chance.
This all suggests they are not planning to sell a lot of copies right away.
Seems as though they are treating it like a cult classic.

[Señor Muybueno]

Originally posted by FinalYoshiMan:

It's a 14 year old game ported over to PC with minimal changes, I would expect it to be cheaper. Hell, going on ebay and buying a used copy of both RDR1 and Undead Nightmare goes for about 15 to 20 bucks now.

I'd suggest there were numerous changes, thought mostly ones no-one knows about or have even really seen. From what I recall at the time when Red Dead Redemption was released, Rockstar Games had just finished a very, very rocky release and port of Grand Theft Auto IV to PC which took well over a year to stabilize.

Considering RDR was Rockstar's third game with the RAGE Engine but second open world title with the aforementioned RAGE Engine, it was a miracle that RDR even functioned properly with a RAGE Engine seemingly held together with duct tape and bandages. I don't blame them for being afraid to release another potentially bad port to PC at the time.

Why it took them 14 years to release it is beyond me but I assume a lot of the porting time spent was just making sure the older RAGE Engine of RDR was stable enough to run on modern systems on top of updating the resolutions for a 2010 game.

[casdarius]

Originally posted by Mazak:

To be completely honest, $50 isn't that bad when you consider it.
Porting a 14 year old game made strictly for console controls to PC would require a ridiculous amount of work; coming from a programmer I'd say it's a fair price, albeit I am just a student and not some highly educated one with several degrees.
Not to mention if you convert it $/T, I personally will get my share out of this game but at the end of the day to each his own.

edit: Lord above stop having ♥♥♥♥ measuring contests with other about either "owning the game" or "being a sheep because you own the game", I'm personally done with this discussion because it is very literally just people trying to prove that their ♥♥♥♥ is bigger than somebody elses.
Those who own the game? I hope you enjoy it.
Those who don't and are waiting for a sale? I hope it comes soon and that you enjoy it.
Those pirating the game? I hope it's a safe pirate and that you enjoy it.
Those who aren't getting the game? I hope you play games you like and enjoy it.

because its full priced.. and most of the people who take issue with its price are those who already bought it once.. a direct port with widescreen and 144hz support doesnt really warrant the crazy price tag... on a seriously dated game.

[overdev]

remember there are full on remakes that are made from the ground up and only cost 30€
Spyro Reignited has THREE games for 30€, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2 also for that price, Beyond Good And Evil (remaster) is 20€ with 4ish hours of bonus content that is brand new.

even the silly GTA trilogy is 60€ which is also far too much, but you get three games.

there is no reason why a port with modern feature should cost that much money.
sure they "put a lot of work into it" and "it isnt easy" well yeah of course, but not for that price.

hell currently you can get RDR 1+2 in a bundle for 59€ and RDR 1 is still 50€
what is that?

[Panky..]

Originally posted by overdev:

hell currently you can get RDR 1+2 in a bundle for 59€ and RDR 1 is still 50€
what is that?

That bundle isn't even a Complete-Your-Collection type. I already have RDR2, I could at least get RDR1 for cheaper through that bundle. Rockstar is so scummy.

[SKN The LISPer]

Originally posted by Panky..:

Originally posted by overdev:

hell currently you can get RDR 1+2 in a bundle for 59€ and RDR 1 is still 50€
what is that?

That bundle isn't even a Complete-Your-Collection type. I already have RDR2, I could at least get RDR1 for cheaper through that bundle. Rockstar is so scummy.

it's even worse than that... RDR1 is 599 (in my currency), RDR2 is 236.27 (67% off deal).

The bundle is 710.83,- (46% off).

Since I already own RDR2, that bundle would cost me 111.83,- (roughly $10€) more, than just buying RDR1 by itself...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous.

[The Trippy Pyro (MPH! MPH! MPH!)]

look i'm someone that just wanted to be able to play this on pc. while i do think the price might be ridiculous for someone who might have played this through to completion... i havent.

i do think if you must buy it wait for a sale.

[Ultrabot]

Originally posted by SKN The LISPer:

Originally posted by Panky..:

That bundle isn't even a Complete-Your-Collection type. I already have RDR2, I could at least get RDR1 for cheaper through that bundle. Rockstar is so scummy.

it's even worse than that... RDR1 is 599 (in my currency), RDR2 is 236.27 (67% off deal).

The bundle is 710.83,- (46% off).

Since I already own RDR2, that bundle would cost me 111.83,- (roughly $10€) more, than just buying RDR1 by itself...

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous.

yeah I saw that too, absolutely crazy. I'll wait till a 90% sale now, utterly ridiculous.

[ebryetas]

The game is 15 years old and theyre selling it at a price that's like it was made post-2020. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous imo. A 15-year-old game costing base-price $50???

[Bone Daddy]

The port doesn't exist in a vacuum, it will be compared to others of its kind, and there is a bias towards older games being made cheaper with time, add all that plus cutting content and its easy to predict people won't like the price tag, even if the game made sandwiches and bjs for you

[Ecclesiastes]

Majority of us that wanted the port played it 14 years ago and already paid retail once so why pay retail again 14 years later? No thanks, oh and they (R*) abandoned RDR2 Online so i'll wait til the game is 5 or 10 bucks from some third party site for all i care even then 10 bucks is steep lol. I'm done with R* really until they show they yearn for my hard earned money with expected quality again.

[L. Franklyn]

They dont work.

[Joe Cool]

I would happily pay the full price if I could be assured that absolutely NONE of that money went to Rockstar or TakeTwo.

[The Wizard 101 Reaper]

Originally posted by Mazak:

To be completely honest, $50 isn't that bad when you consider it.
Porting a 14 year old game made strictly for console controls to PC would require a ridiculous amount of work; coming from a programmer I'd say it's a fair price, albeit I am just a student and not some highly educated one with several degrees.
Not to mention if you convert it $/T, I personally will get my share out of this game but at the end of the day to each his own.

edit: Lord above stop having ♥♥♥♥ measuring contests with other about either "owning the game" or "being a sheep because you own the game", I'm personally done with this discussion because it is very literally just people trying to prove that their ♥♥♥♥ is bigger than somebody elses.
Those who own the game? I hope you enjoy it.
Those who don't and are waiting for a sale? I hope it comes soon and that you enjoy it.
Those pirating the game? I hope it's a safe pirate and that you enjoy it.
Those who aren't getting the game? I hope you play games you like and enjoy it.

literally spent 20 bucks to buy this game on xbox in 2019, yall got brain parasites trying to defend this