Get on board for just 98 yuan? Is the PS5 disc of *Star Wars Outlaws* really worth it?

When I saw on the pricing page that the physical PS5 disc of Star Wars: Outlaws was only 98 yuan, it felt exactly like suddenly drawing an “Epic Discount” card while playing cards in a cantina: are you sure this is Ubisoft’s AAA open-world game and not the price tag of some tiny indie title? The official explanation from the platform is that it’s a “historical low promotion,” and it’s a limited-time event with the price subject to change at any moment, which means we’re currently standing on the edge of a smuggler’s ship that’s about to take off, and whether to jump onboard is a decision you have to make in these couple of days.

Let’s lay out the premise first. This time Ubisoft got the Star Wars IP and made an open-world story starring a galactic criminal. You’re no longer the chosen one wielding a lightsaber, but a small-time figure drifting between classic planets like Tatooine, surviving in the cracks by taking jobs, running errands, dealing, and occasionally opening fire. The game fuses space dogfights, stealth, and shooting systems, and adds full Simplified Chinese support, letting you write your own “criminal record” on the fringes of the galaxy like a tabletop campaign, instead of rehashing the same old heroic legend.

In terms of RPG immersion from a gameplay perspective, Outlaws feels more like “your Star Wars tabletop campaign” than a simple quest checklist simulator: on a desert planet you ride a battered speeder through canyons, with oppressive twin suns overhead. In the distance it might be the silhouette of an Imperial patrol ship, or an ambush point for some bounty hunter. Every choice you make is essentially adding new tags to your character sheet—do you lean toward sneaking and infiltration, or do you prefer to draw your blaster and settle things cleanly? In the end it all comes back to that classic tabletop question: what kind of fringe outlaw do you actually want to role-play?

Looking at it from the angle of price and format, the truly attractive part of this 98-yuan PS5 physical disc isn’t just the words “historical low,” but the fact that it opens an extra “regret path” for console players. Once a digital copy is in your library, your fate is bound to it; no matter how much of a hoarder you are, you can’t sell it off. But with a physical disc backed by a huge IP like Star Wars, even if you end up thinking the game is just okay, or you feel your “mana is depleted” after finishing it, as long as the disc is in decent condition, you can always list it second-hand and recover part of the cost. For players on a tight budget but curious about this title, 98 yuan is more like a short-term galactic pass—you don’t have to stake all your savings on a single digital receipt.

From the perspective of a blogger who’s been writing about games for a long time, I see this promotion as a great chance to “test the waters of a Star Wars open world.” If you’re already a Star Wars fan and have a natural fondness for keywords like Tatooine, smuggling, and bounty hunters, then 98 yuan is practically at the “just close your eyes and get on the ship” level. If you simply enjoy open worlds and space-themed games, going in with the mindset of “experience a criminal adventure and then resell the disc” is also perfectly reasonable. The only thing to watch out for is that this deal is time-limited; the official note already says the price may revert at any time. So what you need to do, perhaps, is exactly what a real outlaw would do: calculate your budget carefully, and then, in those few minutes before the ship takes off, make a decision that’s decisive enough.