Not really, if I wanted somehing truly limited I'd get some physical artwork, a limited run where the only real limit is for how long will the printer go brr is pretty pointless. We all know most if not all 'promises' are as trustworthy as a kid's pinkie promise.
At the same time, I do agree that this is correct.
Personally, not really, artificial vidya scarcity is the dumbest thing ever and people that buy D-reprints deserves it.
Oh, I am beyond sick of the "MuH fIzZiCaL gAmEs!" crowd, but seriously, a company lying about the whole thing their business is based on is beyond shitty. But LRG is just scumbaggery from top to bottom anyway, and fuck them and their customers.
Agree, they're shitty as a company for sure but seething over [x amount of] people owning pieces of plastic is what I don't care about. They're somewhat of a re-pro business already.
Whether they make repro games, golden dildoes or horse-manure sculptures of Ernest Borgnine, saying you are making 100 and then turning around and making 50,000 is shitty behaviour.
Problem for whom? Normal people? The ones who aren't going to be interested in LRG's snake oil "products" one way or the other?
I'm not saying anyone should feel bad for the idiots who pay through the nose for scalper-bait physical games. I am saying BOTH sides are shitty, both LRG and the mix of scalpers and luddites that buy from them.
It would be nuts to see MVG actually address this, given his common exposes on old hardware and corporate emulation, and how his fans sometimes are.
In the eyes of Limited Run's paypigs, it doesn't matter what it is as long as it's released physically, because something something you don't own digital games something something you will own nothing and be happy.
Physical zealots are so fucking tiresome.
Because people here aren't consoomers that give a shit about it, that's why. If some "limited edition" funko pop that was advertised as only having 1,000 made hits retail shelves and there's actually 10,000 after the preorders, no one here will care and this is just the video game version of that. If anything, you'd just find people laughing at the consoomers and moving on with their lives. LRG has been scamming people for years and called out repeatedly for scandals, but the consoomers won't stop. At some point, there is just no reason to feel any empathy for them.
Finally, someone said it. This whole schizo tirade about physical media and games preservation goes all the way back to around 2017, give or take. When people like BriHard starting putting out videos about it using the typical breadtuber "bored tone" and "muh capitalism" rhetoric. Scott Pilgrim getting delisted in 2014 sent a huge sector of the internet into a mass frenzy. I personally lay part of the blame on the fact that a lot of the in-vogue Internet artists at the time, like Paul Robertson and Jon Kim, worked on it.
The thing about physical vs digital for games is a bit different for me than most.
Why not both? LRG is a good concept its just a shitty company. Showing there is a market for something is not a bad thing, hopefully one day a better competitor to LRG will step up. Not sure why this whole thing is worth a slap fight over.
There is not enough of a market for physical releases of niche games and nostalgia reissues to be profitable without being a shitty scalper-bait company like LRG.
This is a game series I vaguely remember from my childhood, I hope they don't fuck it up too much but they probably will.
I don't know, I feel like if you made the product decent and reasonably costed you could get a big enough market. You might have to bundle two or three games on a cart for the Switch, but a lot of old games hold up well enough that they would sell fine enough if put on a shelf in some form.
