Author Topic: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers  (Read 3289 times)

shfan

Re: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers
« Reply #30 on: May 30, 2019, 07:19:47 pm »
To me they're like Kickstarter, something which initially looked very exciting but over time has shown itself to be a cardboard cut-out with nothing behind it.

The concept of games being released on physical is great, but the mechanism for reserving a game (be there and hope) is poor for consumers. In addition to that, the actual games themselves are more often than not little more than flash games which can be played online free. There is the occasional gem, but instead of actually delivering titles like Castle Crashers or the like, we're getting any old thing they can convince the creator to slap onto a disc.

Pricing's another problem - you've got these substandard games which cost more than you could buy a better game released via a standard publisher which has gone down in price a few weeks after release. Postage costs make this so much worse - Limited Run charge $15 to get a game to me in Europe - it seriously bumps up the investment needed to secure one.

I order occasionally, but only very occasionally, far too much dross - the interesting games (like Bomber Crew) tend to go with specialist or budget publishers rather than the limited ones.

Warmsignal

Re: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers
« Reply #31 on: June 15, 2019, 07:23:59 pm »
Hate em. In a similar fashion that I hated those scam companies that made you sign up and agree to keep buying albums from them every month so that you might eventually get a free one. I just want to buy something when I'm good and ready, not the very minute it drops or else loose a shot at ever having it at a reasonable price. That just plain sucks.

I pay no mind to these companies because while I know they produce games I'd like to have, I refuse to buy them on the publisher's schedule, and I'm sure as hell not paying a cent to a reseller. To me, these games wind up having a similar feel to them as "unlicensed" NES games. They don't really count as part of a console's physical library, since the publisher put in such a half-hearted attempt to actually produce them. Not everyone who even wants one, gets a shot at having one by the time you factor in all the people buying just to resell.

My opinion is they can all screw.

telly

Re: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers
« Reply #32 on: June 15, 2019, 07:27:51 pm »
Based on their announcements from E3 it further solidifies the idea that they are primarily focused squarely on the hardcore collector's market these days. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Re: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers
« Reply #33 on: June 17, 2019, 12:09:55 am »
I've only ever bought from Limited Run for the one time and it was through a friend. It was the recently released Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon which by all accounts looks nice and as a fan of the Igavanias, this is pretty nice and worth it in my mind for what it is. That being said, its not my thing and after seeing that they were releasing single releases of the Jak and Daxter games for PS4 which are basically upscaled PS2 games was the point where I was like nope Im good but then I saw the line up at E3....

pzeke

Re: Your opinions on limited quantity, physical release online retailers
« Reply #34 on: October 30, 2019, 08:02:28 pm »
The only Limited Run Games release that I’m genuinely interested in is Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD, and quite frankly that’s only because I found out about it by happenstance. Most probably won’t get it, though – I’d rather get an OG XBOX instead. I sincerely could care less about LGR and any other of its imitators/doppelgängers.

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