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Tothoro said:
What's going to hurt LRG the most is the latency between collecting money and fulfilling orders. They sell something for $X with the assumption that they'll pay Y% in tax/tariff/whatnot. If there's suddenly a new 104% tariff on those goods between collecting the money and sending out the order, they have to eat it, they can't just charge someone more at that point.

Good thing they cleared out the backlog in 2017, eh? https://x.com/LimitedRunJosh/status/901652387504508929
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Thankfully the only order I have with LRG now is the two NES books from the warehouse sale but that’s only $20 so I’m not terrible concerned.

This is brutal for the crowdfunding tabletop game market though. That’s already a rough space to operate in with failed projects all over the place. Now with tariffs and trade war on the primary supplier of components? The number of failed/indefinitely stalled projects is gonna skyrocket. I’m already trying to get out of one of the big projects I just backed that ended recently.
 
Don't think anyone posted it and most things are gone now, but VGP listed some LRG games back in stock earlier today. Not sure how long it lasted but I snagged a copy of Grandia PS4. I already broke down and bought one off of eBay for way too much a few weeks ago but grabbed an extra since it seems like that game is fairly in demand, might be able to trade for another game I want.

Still some good games left, Shantae Pirate 3DS, Moon NS, Castelvania Advance NS, and Pentintent PS5/NS.
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What could happen to orders that were already placed with LRG .. SRG.. SLG.. Etc Etc.. could they say to customers I'm sorry it's gonna cost ya more $$$ of you want that order fulfilled & delivered ?
 
Citizin said:
What could happen to orders that were already placed with LRG .. SRG.. SLG.. Etc Etc.. could they say to customers I'm sorry it's gonna cost ya more $$$ of you want that order fulfilled & delivered ?
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  1. They can ask you for more money and you can say yes. You pay more and get your item.
  2. They can ask you for more money and you can tell them to pound sand. You will get a refund if they aren't willing to eat the extra cost.
  3. You can pursue legal action to get them to honor the original terms of sale. This would be very silly because the small claims case and/or legal counsel would almost assuredly cost more than whatever upcharge they're asking.
It's more likely that they'll either eat the cost without asking for more money because of the term of sale implications or offer refunds because the tariffs aren't palatable to them, though.
 
Remember too, the affect on LRG and these other limited companies isn't the retail price... it's the cost of producing the items. So if the crap they pack in is cheap, they can eat the increase easily. If the margins are slim, they will have to make some decisions.

In addition to what Tothoro posted... they could opt to reduce the number of items in a CE and offer refunds to those who do not accept the changes. There are a lot of paths they can take including just letting everything go through and change their shipping charge going forward for another $1 or whatever so the make the money back on future purchases.

I'm just glad I have no pending orders with anyone right now. I saw this coming last year and imported what I wanted with purchases in early December. Now I own most of what I want and can just kind of sit back and watch things burn (if they start to burn).
 
I only have two outstanding LRG orders, both of which are currently slated to ship this month (Shantae GBA has been holding my older order up). I've long passed on their CEs though. I bought a couple for Switch, but once the Vita was done, and they moved to mainly paper extras, their CEs became easy passes.

My guess is most people bounced off their CEs long ago and that's why they have so many paper items in them now. The margins must be good on those, and they must sell just enough of them, because otherwise they still wouldn't do as many as they do.
 
The most common CE contents are folded posters, soundtrack CDs, acrylics, art cards, keychains, and more recently shadowboxes. All of those things cost cents to make and they'll upcharge $30+. These CEs have been cash cows for a long time and I imagine the breakeven point is very low since the fixed costs like graphic design are pretty minimal.
 
My concern is always with SLG. I'm still waiting for RayZ Arcade and Steel Empire Chronicles. I have seen no updates on either of these games since last year and there is no way in hell I am paying more for these games when I have waited for years to get them. If they dare ask for more money I will be requesting a refund for both games.

Not overly concerned with Limited Run but I don't have a lot of open preorders with them and I don't order their collector's editions. I have Bounty Hunter and Castlevania Dominus for Xbox and Jedi Power Battles for Xbox. I'm also planning on ordering the Gradius Origins collection soon.

On a positive note I did receive a shipping confirming from the Konami Store OKS for the Castlevania Dominus Collection Exclusive Cover for Switch.
 
Tothoro said:
  1. They can ask you for more money and you can say yes. You pay more and get your item.
  2. They can ask you for more money and you can tell them to pound sand. You will get a refund if they aren't willing to eat the extra cost.
  3. You can pursue legal action to get them to honor the original terms of sale. This would be very silly because the small claims case and/or legal counsel would almost assuredly cost more than whatever upcharge they're asking.
It's more likely that they'll either eat the cost without asking for more money because of the term of sale implications or offer refunds because the tariffs aren't palatable to them, though.
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Pre-orders are not guarantees. I hate pre-ordering stuff but give in when I know an item will be extremely limited and even in those cases I usually have a backup source. None of this applies to LRG because they are the only game in town for this stuff.
 
Lord Chabelo said:
Pre-orders are not guarantees. I hate pre-ordering stuff but give in when I know an item will be extremely limited and even in those cases I usually have a backup source. None of this applies to LRG because they are the only game in town for this stuff.
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I'm not sure what you're referring to here. Merchants can cancel pre-orders for (pretty much) any reason, yes. As long as they provide a refund for any money they've collected they're in the clear. Amazon can cancel CE orders if they oversell, Target can cancel game orders if they made a pricing error, LRG can cancel orders if they decide they can't reasonably produce something anymore, and so on.

My response you quoted was oriented toward the other user's outlined scenario - that LRG asks for more money on an order that's already placed. LRG has the ability to cancel the order at that point, whether or not they ask for more money to complete the order beforehand.
 
Has anyone been getting a lot of damaged CEs from LRG lately? They've been using these double walled boxes but the boxes them selves are like, made out of air. Persona 3 SEES edition, Dead Space CE, Persona 4 Midnight edition, and Shadows of the Damned CEs all have at least one edge that's damaged.
 
Two weeks in a row with no new games from LRG after years with no gaps in their release schedule. Guess they're a bit skittish with the tariffs right now.

They did put up a Shantae guide book and announced a Doom/Sigil compilation for next week, though.
 
Tothoro said:
Two weeks in a row with no new games from LRG after years with no gaps in their release schedule. Guess they're a bit skittish with the tariffs right now.

They did put up a Shantae guide book and announced a Doom/Sigil compilation for next week, though.
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Last numbered release was 3/28 and next one will be 4/18. I think this is the longest period they gone without a numbered release.
 
TheKbob said:
*Assembled.

All the carts, to my knowledge, come from Japan, which will be subject to the 10% global tariff and may be subject to an additional up to 24% in July.

So yah, the meme is still funny, but there's no game publisher, big or small, that's gonna make it out clean from this turd pile.
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Limited Rare has only done PS4 games and PS4 discs can be printed in Terra Haute, Indiana at Sony DADC. Sony has other plants too so I don't know how they pick what gets printed there vs. overseas, though.

62t said:
Last numbered release was 3/28 and next one will be 4/18. I think this is the longest period they gone without a numbered release.
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The longest time for years for sure, back in ye olde days when they were just getting started it was pretty common for weeks between releases. But I don't think they've had a break since 2018.
 
flybrione said:
That's got to be a joke right. No one is going to buy that at $666.
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It’s a funny bit, for sure. I’ll definitely give them credit there but there’s absolutely no way they’re gonna sell enough to justify production runs of those items.

Then they’re just gonna quietly cancel it and refund or switch out components without notification before shipping.

They just set themselves up for this shit at this point, they never, ever learn from their mistakes.
 
I wasn't aware of the Terra Haute plant for BR. I thought everything was either Mexico or over in Europe (Germany?) for BR Discs.

Even so, are the game boxes manufactured in the USA? I thought most of those came from over seas.
 
Limited Run already had Doom though for switch and PS4. And it included the 3rd game too. From what I remember that game couldn't run without a patch so there was some controversy around that. But still what is the point of this release? For the Xbox and PS5 and without the 3rd game?

Edit: Noticed it included "Sigil & Sigil II".
So I guess that is something new.
 
nightc1 said:
I wasn't aware of the Terra Haute plant for BR. I thought everything was either Mexico or over in Europe (Germany?) for BR Discs.

Even so, are the game boxes manufactured in the USA? I thought most of those came from over seas.
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When you print games with Sony they send you the complete package - game, case, and manual (if there's a manual) compared to Nintendo who send the carts separate and require assembly.

So an American-based publisher printing games with Sony (assuming they use the Indiana plant) wouldn't be subject to the tariff because they are buying the product from Terra Haute to wherever they're based - that transaction doesn't cross international borders. Sony may have to pay a tariff on the empty cases if those are produced internationally, but not the publisher themselves.
 
nightc1 said:
I wasn't aware of the Terra Haute plant for BR. I thought everything was either Mexico or over in Europe (Germany?) for BR Discs.
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The Terre Haute facility doesn’t do disc replication anymore, as far as I know. They’re just assembly and distribution. I’ve read speculation that Optical Media Manufacturing out of Indianapolis took over some of the relevant staff / equipment.

Every PS5 disc I’ve spot-checked (first party and third party; all ESRB) was replicated in Austria.

There are some domestic replicators (OMM, as mentioned above, and CD Video Manufacturing out of Santa Ana, CA are a couple), but it’s a small list for sure.
 
I got another delay email for Castlevania Dominus on Xbox to about another month.
The last delay said April 15th. New delay says expected shipping May 15th.

At least the Switch Variant Cover from the Konami shop has shipped and should arrive next week.
 
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flybrione said:
I got another delay email for Castlevania Dominus on Xbox to about another month. The last delay said April 15th. New delay says expected shipping May 15th.

At least the Switch Variant Cover from the Konami shop has shipped and should arrive next week.
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The hell... no such email for me from LRG and my Konami store order still hasn't shipped.

EDIT* I had the Dominus CE PS5 so might be why no shipment email, but Konami store order was for the NS version.
 
My Dominus from Konami should be delivered today as well.

I also just got an email from Purple Dot / LRG that Yakuza Kiwami has been delayed from this month to the last week of June. It looks like this is for all platforms.
 
MagicCarpet said:
My Yakuza 0 order was delayed to the last week of June, was supposed to ship this month.
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I pre-ordered all of them, and I got a delay email for the first three. I'm sure there's more delay emails coming soon for the other three.

EDIT* Just got my 4th Yakuza delay email, and realized it's some duplicates for the standard vs CE. Also realized it's 7 games (0, plus 1-6) so... guessing all 7 are delayed.

EDIT 2* My ShopKonami Dominus just shipped. Yay!
 
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Personally, I’m shocked to see vol 1 of the LRG complete history is already discounted to 50% and a LOT of plumbers don’t wear ties versions available. Thought those items were both big sellers…
 
Just received another delay shipping notice update for Soul Reaver Collection on Xbox from June to July.
That one I understand because even the retail version was delayed one month.

The only good thing is at least they are sending out notifications about moving release dates for some games and trying to provide a clear estimated shipping date. I could only dream of this from other limited publishers like Strictly Limited Games.

It's a welcome improvement that should have happened a very long time ago.

Also remember how they were going to add paypal back for making preorders and they never did. I guess they didn't lose enough customers to bother to try to implement paypal for preorders.
 
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