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Things have been going so well that Josh has decided to run for US House in his district. This inflation in the video games industry is out of control. Families can't afford their own video games anymore.

'murica. Love it or leave it.
 
trclamp said:
A korean company krafton bought hi-fi rush developer and IP, so it's probably up to the new owner now instead of microsoft.
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Oh right, guess that does further complicate things. Lol, I'm well aware of LRG's reputation, this is the one I want from them, and of course it takes forever to open up preorders smh
 
$250 for that sonic bundle of crap

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I am not the biggest Sonic fan, but that does look like a pretty good CE (Except for the price obviously) and I have seen quite a few people on Twitter (especially in the Sonic-fandom circles) excited for this CE.

For fans that didn't want to drop $250+ it looks like Play-Asia has an Asian/JP collector's edition as well for US $82. I wonder if this is the SuperDeluxe (LRGs Japan branch) release?

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Am I mistaken, or is that CE the only way to get a physical PS4 ESRB version? All retailers list just the PS5 version…but I’d sooner guess that Josh screwed up again.
 
I was just looking cus I am considering getting the Lollipop Chainsaw CE. It's suggested shipping is May1-31. So for the game that's launching next month the pre-order will actually get me the game by... Realistically this time next year? That's fucking crazy. They've always been awful (I haven't ordered from LRG since the No More Heroes Santa Destroy Bundle. But I somehow feel like they've gotten even worse. So if I order this I can likely expect to get it digitally long before I actually get the physical copy
 
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Things have been going so well that Josh has decided to run for US House in his district. This inflation in the video games industry is out of control. Families can't afford their own video games anymore.

'murica. Love it or leave it.
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Things must be going well when he can drop $1,000 on Flintstones for Dreamcast.

I hate to say it, but this announcement was overhyped and disappointing. From Josh's perspective I can see that it would be really cool to work with Sega on producing a game with them. From an average customer's standpoint I'm not buying this at $250. I would like to have the Steelbook, but I have no interest in the statue.
 
ecwfan said:
Things must be going well when he can drop $1,000 on Flintstones for Dreamcast.

I hate to say it, but this announcement was overhyped and disappointing. From Josh's perspective I can see that it would be really cool to work with Sega on producing a game with them. From an average customer's standpoint I'm not buying this at $250. I would like to have the Steelbook, but I have no interest in the statue.
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They're not even co-producing the game though, just the extra crap with it.
 
I am a little surprised that Noone pointed this out yet -

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Release window delivery!

The game cart for SONIC X SHADOW Generations will ship from Limited Run between October 25th and November 8th! While we will do our utmost best attempt to deliver the product as close to the release date as possible, please be aware that transit time will vary depending on courier, location, and customs clearance in your country."

So, apparently, the game itself will ship somewhere around when the game releases at retail. Then they ship out the Collector's box of crap at some point next year. It's estimated to ship July of next year, which means it probably won't ship until September or October next year - a year after the game comes out....

So, they have nothing to do with the actual Sonic game - it's literally just the extra stuff that LRG is involved with. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they trend more and more away from actually producing games and producing more of these Collector's boxes without games since they are probably way more profitable...
 
I would be more interested if they put more effort into the art book. I noticed a lot of recent CEs seem to have paperback books or guides, and they won't comment on the page counts. I've even tried replying to their accounts on Twitter, but get no response.

Fortunately, there are plenty of great Sonic retrospective books already out there, so this is an easy pass for me.
 
They have definitely getting better with fulfillment but it took a long time to get there.
I ordered both of the Persona Games for Xbox during batch two. Haven't received a shipping notice yet but I expect one soon.
 
Staind204 said:
I got one of my orders today. 2 of the 3 games had update patches (rocket knight and el shaddai). What happened to putting everything on the cart?
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I think that's long been gone as a thing. They're more interested in having a release closer to launch than a finished product later.
 
Krafton can do whatever they want, they own Tango and Hi-Fi now. Contracts aren't written in blood and enforced at gunpoint, there are myriad ways they can be amended or terminated. Personally I hope it means the physical release still happens but goes through retail or some other publisher. We won't know one way or another until LRG, Krafton, or Tango publicly says something though; it's all speculation at this point.
 
n64ra said:
LRG already has Hi-Fi Rush under contract right? So Krafton can't just come in and cancel it. Pretty poor contract if they could.
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That's right. Also I thought I had heard that the first game still sits with MS in terms of publishing rights so Krafton can't just outright publish it without getting MS involved.
 
n64ra said:
LRG already has Hi-Fi Rush under contract right? So Krafton can't just come in and cancel it. Pretty poor contract if they could.
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As the IP owner, they can back out if they really want to. And I think it was probably on hold by Microsoft during their acquisition talks. As a reference point, Pentiment was announced together with Hi-Fi Rush and opened preorders within weeks. Hence my speculation that LRG is waiting for krafton to greenlight Hi-Fi Rush instead of Microsoft.
 
Tothoro said:
Krafton can do whatever they want, they own Tango and Hi-Fi now. Contracts aren't written in blood and enforced at gunpoint, there are myriad ways they can be amended or terminated. Personally I hope it means the physical release still happens but goes through retail or some other publisher. We won't know one way or another until LRG, Krafton, or Tango publicly says something though; it's all speculation at this point.
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I'm not a lawyer but I feel like it's got to be more nuanced than that.

If you buy a company, I'd think the buyer looked at what it's existing obligations/agreements are and either 1) agreed to take on those obligations/agreements or 2) negotiate out of them with the counter-party (meaning LRG). Otherwise, LRG would have a contract with MS which MS could no longer fulfill.. though they could prob buy themselves out of it.

But I dunno, just speculating. I'm sure someone will ask Josh on Twitter and he'll have a response..
 
Vinny said:
I'm not a lawyer but I feel like it's got to be more nuanced than that.

If you buy a company, I'd think the buyer looked at what it's existing obligations/agreements are and either 1) agreed to take on those obligations/agreements or 2) negotiate out of them with the counter-party (meaning LRG). Otherwise, LRG would have a contract with MS which MS could no longer fulfill.. though they could prob buy themselves out of it.

But I dunno, just speculating. I'm sure someone will ask Josh on Twitter and he'll have a response..
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There's nuance, sure - Was the contract assignable? Was it with Microsoft or Tango? Were there kill clauses for studio sale or closure? But ultimately, what you described are more-or-less the options. Just because a contract exists doesn't mean it is an absolute certainty and will come to pass. Heck, look at stuff like Y2K or the Vita Sekai games that theoretically also had contracts.

As far as IP goes, Krafton explicitly said that the acquisition includes it in their press release. They might owe residuals or royalties to Microsoft but ownership doesn't get much more clear.
 
numb1ninerfan said:
Any good timeframe for when my items will ship from Friday? I e never bought from them before
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Probably in the next week or sooner. Some have already received their orders and others are still waiting. I ordered in the second batch but have not received a shipping notification yet. Once you receive your shipping notice expect to wait another 5-7 days to receive it.
 
62t said:
I think MS still owns the first game, similar to how they still have Sunset Overdrive
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This is what I was thinking of... the Xbox and PS releases of Hi-Fi would still fall under MS's umbrella of ownership but if the game were to be released on any other consoles (NS for example) it would be the new owners.

Whatever the case, I hope we get a PS physical... maybe LRG won't publish it and the new owners publish it themselves.
 
Vinny said:
This is what I was thinking of... the Xbox and PS releases of Hi-Fi would still fall under MS's umbrella of ownership but if the game were to be released on any other consoles (NS for example) it would be the new owners.

Whatever the case, I hope we get a PS physical... maybe LRG won't publish it and the new owners publish it themselves.
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I think that'd depend on if it's a new version or just a port and the contract.

Different situation but cold steel 1 2 is xseed for example so anytime they want to port that I understand it had to go through them. While Nisa is free to port their localization willy nilly.
 
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Lol. I don't know how a guy who has bought barrels of old games and publishes new ones doesn't understand two basic principles that apparently went over his head (or intentionally over his head for lol hype):

1- Until the system is dead dead, no more production, ANYTHING can be reprinted.
2- You can't compare collector direct games like this to things from back in the day

As to be expected, Josh has conflated, like most collectors, rare and expensive. A day ending in Y.
 
Let's just hope they sell enough copies that they don't have to try the "code in a box" scheme again, I guess. I've seen multiple "in case you missed it" emails and tweets, which I always interpret to mean "this sold less than we or our business partners wanted, please buy more", and Josh stoking FOMO on Twitter reinforces that.

Anyway, I think it's a cool set but a weird choice for this game. It would make a lot more sense as a Sonic Adventure 2 CE. I don't remember Chao being in Generations (there definitely wasn't a garden, at least) and there are Dreamcast levels but there are also levels from most Sonic games.
 
Has anyone gotten the Double Fine Triangle Box from LRG? I don't know what to do. I got a shipping email for it on 7/16 and it STILL says UPS doesn't have the item. Support has been no help at all telling me over and over they'll look into it
 
I've been moderately burned at least three times by paying over MSRP for current gen stuff (Crystar, Attack on Titan 2 Final Battle, & Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited). I'm not out a ton of money, but enough to make me realize that you just need to wait and see if there will be reprints.

Funny enough, in one of the Facebook groups I'm in, a group of collectors were butthurt that VGP was reprinting stuff, not denoting it as a "second printing" because it would ruin the value of first prints, and overall reduces the value of their games. I couldn't believe that they were bigmad that other's had affordable access to previously small run copies of retail games.

Gamers can be such children. And one just happens to run LRG...
 
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Quake 1 is up today. There is a CE for $175, but it's just the game and a rotating Quake icon. Easy pass.
 
Tothoro said:
Anyway, I think it's a cool set but a weird choice for this game. It would make a lot more sense as a Sonic Adventure 2 CE. I don't remember Chao being in Generations (there definitely wasn't a garden, at least) and there are Dreamcast levels but there are also levels from most Sonic games.
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I think for the statue, this is more of a continuation of what Sega did with Sonic Mania and that Sonic standing on a Genesis statue. Except here, it's not clear if the statue has any extra feature to it like that Genesis one did with the whole "SEEEGAAA" startup sound. My guess is, no.


Really the whole listing for this on the LRG site is strange because it's $250 before tax & shipping... and you get exactly 1 picture showing what's included with very little detail. I get there's the FOMO crowd that will buy stupid crap like this without really looking that closely at it, but it does absolutely the barest of minimums to try and sell anyone else on it.
 
They've only ever done one photo though, so that a it new. Not good, but not new. That Quake whatever edition is crap. I wish I liked those games more to want to own them physically, but I have no nostalgia for boomer shooters. They are excellent shooters though. I hope that wasn't the big announcement teased. It probably is.
 
Was about to ask if anyone received Cosmic Fantasy Collection yet since the website says mine has been "ready to ship" since July 22 only to find it in the mail today. No shipping notice and website still hasn't updated. Amazing how a company after this many years and with so much feedback can't fix a simple task even after partnering with so many third parties.
 
TheKbob said:
I've been moderately burned at least three times by paying over MSRP for current gen stuff (Crystar, Attack on Titan 2 Final Battle, & Saviors of Sapphire Wings / Stranger of Sword City Revisited). I'm not out a ton of money, but enough to make me realize that you just need to wait and see if there will be reprints.

Funny enough, in one of the Facebook groups I'm in, a group of collectors were butthurt that VGP was reprinting stuff, not denoting it as a "second printing" because it would ruin the value of first prints, and overall reduces the value of their games. I couldn't believe that they were bigmad that other's had affordable access to previously small run copies of retail games.

Gamers can be such children. And one just happens to run LRG...
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These people blowing hundreds of dollars on games because they think there’s no way they’ll ever be reprinted absolutely blow my mind. I mean, I get spending a small premium if you missed a release, that’s not what I’m talking about. It’s more so stuff like Shantae, Inscryption, Final Fantasy Pixel, The Messenger, Blasphemous, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime, etc.

I picked a mix of games that have already been reprinted recently and others that everyone seems to be convinced can never be reprinted anywhere, at all, but time and again we’ve been shown there’s nothing sacred about reprints, despite what LRG would have you believe. Even Nintendo themselves finds ways to reprint stuff, remember when the only way to get Bayonetta 1 physical was that triple pack, then a couple years later we get the individual release?
 
thelonepig said:
Was about to ask if anyone received Cosmic Fantasy Collection yet since the website says mine has been "ready to ship" since July 22 only to find it in the mail today. No shipping notice and website still hasn't updated. Amazing how a company after this many years and with so much feedback can't fix a simple task even after partnering with so many third parties.
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Did you get an email about it shipping out? I did for mine. In my order history that status for it also says "Now Shipping", but there are absolutely things I've received that still wrongly say "in production" too.
 
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