As if the $50 Red Dead Redemption PC port wasn’t insulting enough, you can pick up Red Dead Redemption 2 for less than that right now on Steam.

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It took 14 years for Red Dead Redemption to finally appear on PC, and it will launch tomorrow at a higher price than its five-year-old sequel. Steam.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is only $34.99 through November 4, making it $15 cheaper than an Xbox 360-era game. Since this is also the Ultimate Edition, it comes with a handful of items for the story and multiplayer.

Even though they’re both very different Western epics, it’s ridiculous that Rockstar is forcing us to pay almost as much for the first game as its extensive sequel. Negative for sale. Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick announced the price “commercially correct” but for a game that meets the minimums we’d expect from a modern port, such as ultrawide, HDR, DLSS, and high refresh rate support, I’d call it greedy. Maybe it would have turned out better if it had come out 10 years ago.

I think we’ll be discussing a similar discrepancy in price when Rockstar finally throws us PC gamers a bone, nearly a year after Grand Theft Auto 6 launches on consoles. The studio is pretty inconsistent about how long it will take bring your games to PCbut always at least six months later and at full price. The whole approach is as frustrating as the way Nintendo sells games almost ten years ago at the same price as what they launched.

The maddening part about all this is that it probably won’t stop anytime soon. I think many PC gamers would be happier paying full price if it didn’t take years to get games in the first place. When we finally get them a complete mess This requires waiting longer for the patches to clear them.

Here we have a port of a game from 14 years ago that is somehow more expensive than its sequel. It highlights how awful it is to charge $50 for an old game, and will probably convince more PC gamers to skip what is, as I recall, a pretty fantastic game.