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.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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?

They probably have permission from Warp or Panasonic. Doubt it was expensive to get considering how obscure the D games are.

 

[TrinityReformed]

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?

For the games that I love, I usually have a physical and digital copy. Honestly, I get the physical games for the box art, manual art pages, and other shit that used to be fucking standard back then, not for the game disk itself (though I like the images on the face of the disk too). Granted, this only applies to old games.

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

Honestly, I get the physical games for the box art, manual art pages, and other shit that used to be fucking standard back then

Fair enough. It wouldn't appeal to me personally, but that explanation at least makes sense, as opposed to the people who keep implying that a DVD or Steam servers are the only places a video game installation can exist.

 

[whatever I feel like]

In their defense this will increase the value of the recalled versions.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

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.

Yup. I got rid of a bunch of books that I'd probably never read again but I got PDF copies of them. My goal is to keep the digital media I want and digitalize the stuff I have. There's a lot of rare and rare-ish stuff that's not on the Internet. Of course, in the event of a fire, most or all of that would be lost (the stuff I didn't already upload to the Internet)...which is kind of the point.

If I got a rare prototype of a game I'd dump and upload that shit in a moments' notice. Maybe not release it with the world but make sure it's there.