Business Limited Run games shipping CD-R copies of a 3DO game for $69 instead of pressed disks. - They are sorry they got caught.

Popped out con Youtube and checked on NeoGAF, but apparently Limited Run games, a company making re-releases of old games, decided it was a good idea to ship a burnt CD-R inside of a box, and charge $69 (nice) for the inconvenience.

From NeoGAF: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/limi...mes-on-cd-r-rather-than-pressed-disc.1670087/



They are really sorry they got caught:


Limited Run has been mired in controversy a number of times, for issues ranging from the petty (firing an employee for liking Hogwarts Legacy) to plain old scammy behaviour like year-long delays and refusing refunds.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

This is in Australia $$ & I just hit every 1st option on the first google result place.
$456.50 = 50 full colour discs in a full colour digipack with a poster & shrink-wrapped.
And these fucks are shipping CD-Rs? Fucking even jews I know wouldn't do that

 

[Judge Dredd]

Late reply, as I didn't see these posts and the other thread was merged with this one.

How on the world did this happen? I know they're retarded shitlibs, but they've been running a business for quite a while now.

Why are scams seemingly so much more prevalent in Current Year than before?

I can give a serious answer, but it would be a wall of text, and quite boring.

It's something currently known as "enshitification", and while that term is recent, the concept is an old one. In short, it's making line go up by cost cutting. This cost cutting leads to short term gains, but long term it causes problems. They then try to patch these problems, which costs money, and necessitates another round of cost cutting to make line go up. What we're seeing is the consequences.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

How is it legal to sell $69 bootleg copies of old games? Or are they actually licensed to sell this stuff and just ridiculously incompetent?

 

[Light-Blue Yoshi]

In an era where vidya companies can just take games out of your digital library on a whim, or force you to get dual accounts on a different store to access a game you already paid for, you said this with the confidence you couldn't possibly be wrong.

Paid for?

The importance of physical releases is that it makes copies of games much easier to checksum and DAT so they can be preserved. Only one or more people needs to buy a copy for it to be permanently archived. Buying this garbage and letting it sit around on your shelf is what's retarded.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Paid for?

The importance of physical releases is that it makes copies of games much easier to checksum and DAT so they can be preserved. Only one or more people needs to buy a copy for it to be permanently archived. Buying this garbage and letting it sit around on your shelf is what's retarded.

Have fun when you can't find the version of a game with it uncensored because all the versions with any live seeds left on the torrent sites are from a newer censored version that got created cause a troon or HR lady got upset.

I mean they are already doing it with movies, television, music, and have done it with some games as well.

To get to the point though, you're a fucking idiot and should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Light-Blue Yoshi]

I don't think you understand what I said. Why do the most vocal supporters of preservation always know the least about it?

 

[PhoBingas]

Why are scams seemingly so much more prevalent in Current Year than before?

They really aren't I think. We just have the Internet and smart phones to document this stuff. I don't know if anybody is old enough to remember ordering shit out of the back / add pages of comics, but like 9 times out of 10, what you paid for or sent away for never showed up.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

In an era where vidya companies can just take games out of your digital library on a whim, or force you to get dual accounts on a different store to access a game you already paid for, you said this with the confidence you couldn't possibly be wrong.

Is this going to be like music discussions where people somehow forget that local file storage exists and act like we went straight from CDs to Internet streaming and the 2000s never existed?

Every damn time this subject comes up, this false dichotomy is presented. I have my own hard drives - really, really big ones, in fact. I can fit ten bajillion installers on them and have no need for shelves full of pieces of plastic inside yet more plastic.

The constant insistence that you have to pirate everything is obnoxious and everyone who insists on it is a faggot.

That's right. Real cool dudes pay $70 for a bootleg copy of a 3D0 game.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Is this going to be like music discussions where people somehow forget that local file storage exists

Oops, your hard-drive got corrupted / crashed, RIP all your music.

That's right. Real cool dudes pay $70 for a bootleg copy of a 3D0 game.

This I do agree with ya about, if it was legit pressing I'd be less annoyed in theory. The 3DO version is kind of known for having the best soundtrack out of the versions of D, they fucked it up on the PS1 and Saturn versions.

I like the idea of physical reissues of older shit like this in theory at least, but for gods sake do it right.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Oops, your hard-drive got corrupted / crashed, RIP all your music.

Oops, your house burned down in a matter of minutes because it's filled to the brim with highly flammable plastic junk.

Anything can be destroyed. It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to duplicate a hard drive and periodically test its integrity than duplicate a thousand discs and hope they don't bit-rot.

 

[PunkinMan]

Why are scams seemingly so much more prevalent in Current Year than before?

Tik tok is essentially ruining media literacy, and fact checking as a whole so it isnt surprising, this and the combined effort of A.I is a disaster waiting to happen for younger generations.
This is just my opinion tho.
One time I was talking to someone on FB for a cash job and it turned out to be a scammer that had scraped all their photos, or possibly ai generated and essentially created someone that doesnt exist to gain the trust of unsuspecting users into giving away valuable pieces of identity and other info.

 

[Racist Trash]

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Every time I see a setup like this, it makes me wanna vomit all over. How do you make your place look like this and just not feel ashamed?

VERY COOL
Seriously stereotypical nerd crew setup.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Anything can be destroyed. It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to duplicate a hard drive than duplicate a thousand discs.

I mean you can put the stuff on a HD if it makes you happy and not make a copy of the disc?

The weird hatred of physical media comes off really forced.

media literacy

Look at this nigga that just crawled in from reddit. Only people I've heard use that term are faggots upset people think Helldivers 2 is cool.

 

[PunkinMan]

I mean you can put the stuff on a HD if it makes you happy and not make a copy of the disc?

The weird hatred of physical media comes off really forced.



Look at this nigga that just crawled in from reddit. Only people I've heard use that term are faggots upset people think Helldivers 2 is cool.

Damn media literacy is reddit coded now? Cant have shit anymore.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I mean you can put the stuff on a HD if it makes you happy and not make a copy of the disc?

I do. On another mirrored hard drive. So I don't need shelves of plastic crap turning my home into a shrine to corporate product like a manchild consoomer.

I feel like we already went over this.

 

[The Feline Solution]

Why are scams seemingly so much more prevalent in Current Year than before?

I think it has a lot to do with people not discerning on what they blow their money on anymore, just consoom and wait for next thing to consoom. These modern-made games on retro cartridges (or discs in this case) seem to be mired in controversy, i vaguely remember that one Genesis/Mega Drive game, Paprium, having a slew of problems surrounding its release.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I think it has a lot to do with people not discerning on what they blow their money on anymore, just consoom and wait for next thing to consoom.

It's also far, far easier for scammers to very quickly get exposure to a niche audience. If you were doing something like this in the 90s, you'd have to, like, advertise in the back of EGM and you'd have to do years and years of legitimate business to even start selling a reasonable volume.

And at that point, you might as well just run your legitimate business.

 

[Flatline]

How do you make your place look like this and just not feel ashamed?

He doesn't live with a woman.

 

[stupid frog]

Oops, your hard-drive got corrupted / crashed, RIP all your music.

Oops, your house burned down in a matter of minutes because it's filled to the brim with highly flammable plastic junk.

Anything can be destroyed. It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to duplicate a hard drive and periodically test its integrity than duplicate a thousand discs and hope they don't bit-rot.

You guys are both wrong - a mixture is the best way.
The key is to only keep physical of stuff you actually care about viewing again. There is a lot of media that you probably wouldn't care if you saw them again or not.

I am finding modern media to be more disposable.
Not in that I don't want people to be able to access it, but in that I don't care if I personally do or not. Maybe it is just age, but I am feeling a lot more "one and done" on things.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

The key is to only keep physical of stuff you actually care about viewing again.

Why? I can keep that stuff on my hard drives just as easily as a disc.

You guys all seem to treat discs and other physical media like they're perfect, eternal, undamage-able stores of data that never go wrong and that's not the case at all. Have you never seen a disc go bad before?