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Red Dead Redemption PC port will cost almost as much as a brand-new game - upcoming port for this 14-year-old game isn't cheap.

www.pcgamesn.com Red Dead Redemption PC port will cost almost as much as a brand-new game

Red Dead Redemption's PC price has been revealed on the Epic Games Store, and the upcoming port for this 14-year-old game isn't cheap.

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Well then I'll be patient and pick it up on a deep discount. No skin off my back. I already went 14 years without playing it.

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- It's on switch and always on sale. I think I got it for $20. I'm sure after a bit on PC price will drop.
  
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  The Switch is great for games made for the Switch. It's pretty terrible for games made for more powerful platforms. It takes forever for stuff to load, and the GFX are poor.
  
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And for the peoples who do not want to fill the cookies form

$49.99/ £39.99

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- Use Noscript. It's quite surprising how many articles can actually be read without allowing any Javascript and cookie forms won't show up (it often is annoying though, so I cannot seriously recommend this).
  
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  Imnersive view on firefox works well for those sites too
  
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  Yeah... It's annoying to start but I've got a pretty good white-list for Javascript now.
  
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The secret ingredient is....

Piracy

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- And this is exactly why I laugh when PC gamers bitch about being ignored. As a dev, why would I want to sell to an unpleasable, toxic audience that's just gonna steal the product anyways?
  
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  Why should anyone pay $50 for a game that's 14 years old?
  
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They can get fucked with that stupid as launcher

Never again...

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- Some username squatter stole my gamer tag (which is wholly unique, pronounceable in English but utterly gibberish) on Rockstar's stupid account system, and RDR2 being a single player game I was already pissed off. Then the settings required a restart of the game to change even the littlest things, like turning on captions, except the settings would never save.
  
  So I got a refund and went to the high seas, got a version of the game that actually works and doesn't require an unnecessary account login, and I'm playing in 10 minutes.
  
  AAA game publishers don't even make games anymore, they just sell user data.
  
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On the one hand, this is bullshit. A 14 y/o game shouldn’t cost more than its successor. On the other hand, I remember reading, the reason for RDR having never been released for pc (until now) was that the version of the RAGE engine they used was based on the one from GTA IV but severely modified with features that were originally meant for the version of the engine that would ultimately power GTA V. Those modifications apparently weren’t documented particularly well, making it unprofitably difficult to port to PC at the time. So my guess is, that the steep price isn’t just corporate greed but to some extent actually for a lot of work making sense of a 14 year old frankenstein monster of an engine and getting it to work well on modern architectures.

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- And it's the gamers problem that rockstar is shit at documenting their own engine? It's not like they used someone else's engine that went out of business, it was their own code.
  
  Just makes me have even less faith in the near non existing faith I have in this company
  
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  It‘s the gamers' problem that they complain but then buy it anyways for that price instead of waiting until the game is on sale. Rockstar has no reason not to charge full price, as long as some idiot pays it. All I‘m saying is, that greed isn’t the only reason for the price, if that interview I read was to be believed.
  
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- If they only released RDR on PS3, this explanation might make sense as the engine would be heavily optimised for PS3. But they also released on Xbox 360, which is the closest console platform to Windows in terms of architecture. It wouldn't have been that expensive to port.
  
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  I think there must be a degree of truth to the spaghetti code backstory, otherwise Rockstar would've just ported it already and raked in the cash
  
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  To windows, sure. But the 360 and PS3 have PowerPC processors while PCs and modern consoles have a very different architecture (x86). And porting to that is more effort.
  
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- You're right in the first half. I don't see why anyone should pay more for inefficient work. I don't want to go to the mechanic who drags his feet and bills me for an extra 2 hours of work that wasn't necessary.
  
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  Oh absolutely. Anyone who wants it should wait for a sale at the very least. You‘ve waited 14 years, you can wait a few more months.
  
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meh I could never get past the fact that the red dead games just have shit gunplay in my opinion, it is kind of shocking how little rockstar seems to care about putting fun rewarding gunplay into their games.

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- I think the gunplay is fun, it just goes for more of a “realism” approach.
  
  Not saying it’s great, but it’s enjoyable and a good component in the context of how the entire game plays imo.
  
  It’s not supposed to be snappy, it’s made to be kinda slow and almost purposely clunky. For me that’s always made the gun fights quite tense and punishing in a good way.
  
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  It isn't that the gunplay is slow and clunky, I like all kinds of shooters from operation harsh doorstep to xonotic to cod mobile to easy red 2.. I like shooters pretty much however they come, but I would barely quantify red dead as a shooter.
  
  To say the gunplay is weak, shallow and poorly integrated with level design is an understatement and I think is a shame because otherwise red dead 1 and 2 are phenomenal games.
  
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As I did with every other Rockstar game I have ever paid for, I'll get it on sale. I've never really been a hardcore fan anyway. And I have such a backlog of games that by the time I'd get around to playing it, it will probably be on sale.

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The switch version runs on yuzu FYI

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This is what we deserve really, we keep letting it happen

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They got that money bug

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It's like they didn't know what emulators are. Weird.

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- Funny, Lemmy keeps telling me emulators are not for piracy yet here we are
  
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Silent Hill 2 does cost as much as a brand new game. Where were the complaints about that?

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- A remake vs a port.
  
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- First, whataboutism doesn't mean you cannot criticize something. Second, less people give a shit about Silent Hill than they do about Red Dead.
  
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They were playing the long game by making Red Dead Redemption 2 so shit that everyone would come back to the first one at a raised cost.

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- Red Dead 2 is a masterpiece idk what you're on about.
  
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  2 wasn’t the game I wanted but there were things the original did better
  
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- Lol talk about hyperbolic idiocy.
  
  I have this issue with gamers who have no in between. If a game isn't a 11/10 they call it "shit". Like really dude? I can happily play a 7/10 game while you guys bitch and call it unplayable. But this is the first time I've ever heard anyone call red dead 2 shit lol. I hate to say this, but if you think rdr2 is a bad/badly made game, you're either full of shit and a contrarian, or your taste in games is awful
  
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  No, RDR2 is shit because it runs like shit. It's not even fucking playable, yet lots of people have somehow lowered their expectations enough to enjoy that piece of shit. GTA V runs on the same engine and it's perfectly smooth.
  
  Now take your petty little insults that try to make you feel bigger and fuck right off
  
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