Red Dead Redemption finally appeared on PC after 14 years. It will launch tomorrow, but at a higher price than the five-year-old game on Steam.
Red Dead Redemption 2 will be only $34.99 through November 4, which is $15 less than a game that was released in the Xbox 360's era. It's also the Ultimate Edition so it comes with some items for the story as well as the multiplayer.
It's absurd, even though the two games are Western epics that are very different, that Rockstar forces us to pay nearly as much for the first one as its expansive sequel - when is not. Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two's CEO, called the price "commercially correct." But I call it greedy, for a game which hits the bare minimal for what we would expect from a port, such as ultrawide, HDR and DLSS support, along with high refresh rate. Maybe it would have been better received if it had appeared 10 years earlier.
I'm sure we'll discuss a similar price difference a year after the release of Grand Theft Auto 6 on consoles, when Rockstar finally throws PC players a bonbon. The studio is inconsistent in how long it takes for its games to be released on PC. It's usually at least six month later and at full cost. The studio's approach is as frustrating as Nintendo selling games from a decade ago at the same price as they were launched.
The most frustrating part of all this is that it won't stop anytime soon. I think that many PC players would pay full price for games if they didn't have to wait years to get them. It doesn't help when they are a complete mess and require patches to fix them.
Here we have a port from 14 years back that is somehow more costly than its sequel. It shows how outrageous it is to charge $50 to play an old game. This will probably lead more PC gamers to avoid what was a fantastic game based on my memories.
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