Limited Run Games - What's going on with this company?

[BradeRunna]

I bought the few lrg games i have second hand

I bought all mine new. But I didn't fall for the FOMO shit. I bought most of them at Best Buy. If you wait and don't have the patience of a nigger, they eventually make their ways to stores or you can get them in the LRG vault. It's where I got my physical copies of both KOTOR games for the Switch as well as the Blood Rayne games.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

The idea of the company always sounded like bullshit. Either hope you find the original copy at a sane price or pirate. Don't spend a fortune for a fake product using someone else's work.

 

[I am Jack's dead arm]

They make glorified repros. You might as well just get one from Etsy instead of paying $100+

 

[Level99Manchild]

I know Yellowflash kinda sucks, but his video was the only one I could stomach, Anyway...

Never forgot a tranny faggot named Purple Tinker went out of his way to take a woman's job over a shitty woke, wizard game and she followed Conservatives. Never forget Purple Tink not only goes out of his way to bully people and ruin their lives, but he's also a sexual predator and a rapey pedophile.

Have these guys made anything worth a shit?

It looks like all they do is port memey or niche games.

Does Shredder's Revenge count? I regret buying the Switch version because that version kinda sucks.

 

[stupid frog]

I've gotten a couple of games from them with no issue, but I only got the standard editions, so I don't know if that had any effect on the process. I'm sorry they've screwed over so many people

Standard edition is usually delivered timely. I hear some people have waited years for some games limited versions.

On a totally not related note, I heard they no longer accept Paypal.

 

[NoonmanR]

The only reason to ever, and i mean, ever buy a LRG game at launch is if it's a game you enjoy, or something like Grandia or Shantae, these well know classics or at the very least well loved indie games that are never going to be cheaper. Basically anything with Brand appeal. Anything else and you're quite possibly looking at MSRP or even less. Look up "Limited run vita" on ebay and you'll find tons of copies of trash like that, all indie games nobody knows or cares about, maybe some gems buried in there, certainly some decent time wasters, but you're still probably massively overpaying for them.

Anyways "They do more than one print run!" is a retarded thing to be mad at them for, because it only ever benefits people who are retarded collectors and scalpers. Fuck those guys.

The only thing I have from them is the soundtrack for Kero Blaster on CD, but I bought that secondhand so I guess it doesn't really count. Always thought something was off about them since they claim they're for game preservation yet only press limited amounts of shit.

I don't know how anyone ever actually swallowed that shit. The preservation bit is a newer thing that happened because it sounds nice, though they do work with those "preservationist" types, for example, supposedly, the VGHF is in talks with the head grifter to obtain some box inserts to an unreleased saturn FMV game(canned because sega arbitrarily rejected the game and they didn't have the cash to fix it), and their Press Run label will publish crap by them.

Have these guys made anything worth a shit?

It looks like all they do is port memey or niche games.

Have limited run themselves made a good game? No. The reason they're in the business in the first place is because they're a failed indie developer that noticed a niche in the publisher market due to the industries frenzied pushed away from physical/towards a future where you own nothing, and will be happy. If you want an example of what they've made themselves check out Breach and Clear, or Saturday Morning RPG(which they used as the first two releases). Have they put out a good game? Sure, a few, Tetris Effect, Grandia, Doom, etc. I don't know if any of that is worth dealing with LRG personally though.

 

[stupid frog]

Grandia

Switch version, you can buy foreign version and avoid them.

 

[Skullomania]

I bought a lot from LRG back when they were strictly doing Vita releases because I thought it was pretty cool a small company did physical copies for an otherwise dead handheld, especially for indie games (they weren't the only ones, but they did a lot more "high profile" releases).

I've slowed down after Scott Pilgrim released mostly because the shipping times were getting ridiculous and the appeal died down for me, although the last game I got from them was the recent Castlevania Collection, but there are now other companies doing the same thing and with much more reliable production and shipping times, even for games LRG publish.

I dislike that they're advocating for "preservation" when their business model and after market resellers make it obvious how much they prey on FOMO. They should just acknowledge their business is a niche boutique shop for game collectors, it's less obnoxious that way. But the preservation shit makes even less sense when a handful of their releases aren't "gold" copies as they'll need updates later down the line or don't include all the content, or how their Among Us release for PC was just a digital steam/epic code inside of a box which is a retarded trend that happens way more than it should.

 

[Kiislova]

This popped up for me

Popped out for me, and I was going to post it since it is an extension of the 3DO controversy here

Wanting everyone to be able to buy a copy of a game to play but also complaining they are printing too many so your collectable boxed copy isn't holding value at the same time is funny

I don't think "excessive printing" is an issue. Fuck speculators.

I'm still halfway through the video but it is, so far, just another sholvelfull of shit to the LRG pile.
Will some high-ish profile associated with LRG say shit? Peopel like MVG? I doubt so.

 

[I Know 孤独のせい]

Didn't they fire an employee because she had written some wrongthink on Twitter ?

 

[Retink Retunk]

I don't think "excessive printing" is an issue. Fuck speculators.

It's not an issue for speculators, it's more of an issue for the company making or carrying the product since getting stuck with a pile of unsold inventory gets expensive quickly. The whole limited quantity or time thing as a concept was more for companies to say they aren't making a lot of something because there isn't that much demand, but it got bastardized to mean number go up for price.

There was a comedian once who said limited edition meant limited to the number they can sell, which is actually the original truth of the idea.

Didn't they fire an employee because she had written some wrongthink on Twitter ?

Yes, they fired a female community manager for following Libs of Tiktok because troon activists put up a fuss.

 

[Grub]

I've never understood why people buy anything from them. Especially CDs. Do people really not understand that a .iso is literally an exact copy of the contents of a CD that can be used, copied and burned an infinite number of times? Even before digital distribution became a thing I used to rip my game CDs to .iso files and use No-CD patches because CDs are annoying to deal with. And with console games I used to literally make my own fucking physical copies. I'd burn them and print out little covers for the jewel cases and everything. I even had paper that would print out full CD shaped labels for the discs themselves. That's all these guys are doing.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

Well, crap. You beat me to it.

If you need any help with LRG research for the OP or thread in general, let me know. If anything, a more packed OP for Limited Run should be done at some point in the future, cause there's definitely a lot to unpack.

 

[huesofmercury]

The only people i see buy the games are pretty much from game collecting subpredits thats it no one else in their right mind would buy artificially inflated goyslop.

 

[Turkey Beef]

Have these guys made anything worth a shit?

It looks like all they do is port memey or niche games.

Only one I can think of that LRG developed in any meaningful sense is Arzette, which me and others have documented quite a bit on, on this thread. Rather unsurprisingly, the game was a commercial failure, despite enjoying a lot of promotion from legacy media outlets and "haha so funny" twitch streamers.

Didn't they fire an employee because she had written some wrongthink on Twitter ?

Yep, they did. As expected from an inept, scammy company that sells overpriced physical copies of vidya you can download for free anyway, LRG fired a woman because she followed Libs of Tik Tok, for a J.KKK.Rowling-like tweet about troons in bathrooms, and said employee objected to the company employing a pedo brony in drag, whose visage you can admire in the thumbnail of this video (I don't particularly like Razorfag, but oh well):

The Run is long overdue going from Limited to Crashing Into a Wall.

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

Have these guys made anything worth a shit?

It looks like all they do is port memey or niche games.

The artificially inflated memey niche goyslop:

 

[Retink Retunk]

The artificially inflated memey niche goyslop:

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This can't be a real thing, can it? I thought they just put out old games in physical releases, what is this shit?

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

This can't be a real thing, can it? I thought they just put out old games in physical releases, what is this shit?

Its real limitedrungames.com

 

[Retink Retunk]

Its real limitedrungames.com

Anyone who buys this deserves to be ripped off.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Popped out for me, and I was going to post it since it is an extension of the 3DO controversy here

I don't think "excessive printing" is an issue. Fuck speculators.

I'm still halfway through the video but it is, so far, just another sholvelfull of shit to the LRG pile.
Will some high-ish profile associated with LRG say shit? Peopel like MVG? I doubt so.

So you have no problem with a company saying they are making a 5000-copy limited edition, but turning around and printing 15,000 copies?

It's fraud and shows a company to be dishonest about basic issues, and therefore completely untrustworthy.