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Sam & Max apparently had some jokes removed from the remaster. Yay for everyone being offended by everything these days.

 
ZForce said:
https://www.play-asia.com/neogeo-pocket-color-selection-vol-1-english/13/70eat5

Play Asia is selling an English version of NGPC Collection
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Pix'n Love is doing a European release too, but that book in LRG's CE is dealbreaker for me. And in fairness, they hired Jeremy Parish and paid him to do Jeremy Parish things--even non-LRG related things, it seems--so I'm okay if they use his work to drive sales of their version over the others. I'm just really afraid of what the price is going to be on that thing.

Anyway, the Pix'n Love version isn't up yet, but I'll try to remember to post a link when it is. Also releases on the 22nd.
 
Gosh, LRG just keeps churning out the releases, week after week.  At this point no one should be considering them a small publisher anymore.  In fact, the opposite is true.  They are, by far, the largest publisher on Switch, Vita, and PS4 by number of unique releases.  Heck, every week they seem to put out 2-4 new games and no other publisher is even close with that volume.  Most are lucky to get 1-2 games out each month.

 
They've been the largest sku publisher for a long time... though I imagine their actual units/copies produced in total put them more comparable with maybe Sodesco, NISA, and other more niche publishers.

 
nightc1 said:
They've been the largest sku publisher for a long time... though I imagine their actual units/copies produced in total put them more comparable with maybe Sodesco, NISA, and other more niche publishers.
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Given how low-run some of the NISA stuff has been I think they've probably even passed them. And Sodesco used to have very low runs too - not sure I know what they've released recently.

If they list two games a week and sell 2k units of each then they're selling a bare minimum of 400k games a year. Considering we know that Scott Pilgrim and Shantae each sold upward of 40k units and they release more than two games some weeks I'd wager that 600k is a more safe minimum "educated guess" and 750k approaches likelihood.

 
They announce a lot of games but their announce to release ratio, as seen in this thread, is terrible. They're a bloated company. All it would take is a few major releases not reaching their funding goal and their business would go under easily. Why? Because they fund current releases with the money people use to preorder further ahead releases.

 
Tothoro said:
I'd wager that 600k is a more safe minimum "educated guess" and 750k approaches likelihood.
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That's still well below a single major game released by Ubisoft or most of the other big publishers... which is why I'd put LRG at the bottom of the market with the smaller niche publishers.

 
Interesting how they can announce Jay & Silent Bob: Mall Brawl for the PS4 today, and have it in-hand already, but every other game requires more than six months to finally receive...

 
Kain said:
Interesting how they can announce Jay & Silent Bob: Mall Brawl for the PS4 today, and have it in-hand already, but every other game requires more than six months to finally receive...
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That was a mistake and they've since updated it.

Multi-million dollar company, folks.

 
n64ra said:
Is anyone buying these random Game Boy games?
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I bought Shantae, Amazing Penguin and Return of the Ninja. Shantae I already have the original but I'm a big fan of the series. Return of the Ninja I bought because it looked cool. Amazing Penguin I bought bc I needed a filler to hit $100 on Paypal credit.LOL

 
Production Status changed to On Deck: 
Titles by Production Status:
  • In Production: 191 (95.0%)
  • On Deck: 10 (5.0%)
 
Titles by Estimated Ship Date:
  • TBD: 129 (64.2%)
  • Q2 2021: 25 (12.4%)
  • Q1 2021: 15 (7.5%)
  • April 2021: 8 (4.0%)
  • June 2021: 5 (2.5%)
  • May 2021: 4 (2.0%)
  • Q4 2020: 2 (1.0%)
  • 2021: 2 (1.0%)
  • Q3 2021: 1 (0.5%)
 
redrum666 said:
i am going to pick up StarHawk since it was never released in the US
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Interesting. Didn't know that. Probably one of the better reasons to pick up one of their GB releases. Shantae I understood since it is hard to find.

62t said:
They have to give Jay and Silent Bob release 420 ...
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LRG numbered it #420 though it seems they're actually around release #403 ...

 
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Does anyone know if that Blasphemous "deluxe edition" contains the fully updated version of the game? They patched the game up quite a bit after launch and added some new content. My five minutes of Googling for the answer turned up inconclusive results lol.
 
 Estimated Ship Date changed to May 2021:Estimated Ship Date changed to Q2 2021:Production Status changed to On Deck: 
Titles by Production Status:
  • In Production: 190 (95.5%)
  • On Deck: 9 (4.5%)
 
Titles by Estimated Ship Date:
  • TBD: 110 (55.3%)
  • Q2 2021: 50 (25.1%)
  • May 2021: 13 (6.5%)
  • Q1 2021: 9 (4.5%)
  • April 2021: 3 (1.5%)
  • Q4 2020: 2 (1.0%)
  • 2021: 2 (1.0%)
  • June 2021: 1 (0.5%)
 
Equippt said:
Does anyone know if that Blasphemous "deluxe edition" contains the fully updated version of the game? They patched the game up quite a bit after launch and added some new content. My five minutes of Googling for the answer turned up inconclusive results lol.
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Yes, up to date patches and all DLC

 
LRG has finally listed their NGPC Selection Volume 1 releases and they are actually quite reasonably priced.  The standard is $39.99 (same as digital) and the CE is only $69.99 (about $30 less than I was expecting).  I will gladly pay $30 extra for the steelbook and retrospective book.

I do think the pricing is reasonable because they likely weren't involved with it since it is a distributed title.  Either way, it makes it an easy purchase.

Also, it looks like Bug Fables (Switch) and Doom Classic Collection (Switch and PS4) will be carried by Best Buy.

 
Josef said:
LRG has finally listed their NGPC Selection Volume 1 releases and they are actually quite reasonably priced. The standard is $39.99 (same as digital) and the CE is only $69.99 (about $30 less than I was expecting). I will gladly pay $30 extra for the steelbook and retrospective book.

I do think the pricing is reasonable because they likely weren't involved with it since it is a distributed title. Either way, it makes it an easy purchase.

Also, it looks like Bug Fables (Switch) and Doom Classic Collection (Switch and PS4) will be carried by Best Buy.
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Yes I was very surprised by the pricing for both. I will actually pick up the collectors edition.

Bug Fables being offered at Best Buy is also great because that means I'm not buying it direct and I will wait.

 
Was breaking down an order from Limited Run today and just realized they're charging sales tax on shipping costs in addition to item costs.  Couldn't figure out why the sales tax number was off until it finally hit me. Kind of blew my mind. Do other sites do this as well?

 
falsedichotomies said:
Was breaking down an order from Limited Run today and just realized they're charging sales tax on shipping costs in addition to item costs. Couldn't figure out why the sales tax number was off until it finally hit me. Kind of blew my mind. Do other sites do this as well?
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Nope. This has been an issue for me as well. I noticed it as soon as they started charging tax on orders and was royally ticked that they don't even give enough of a damn to make sure they're billing people correctly. One of the reasons why I swore off ordering from them unless I can get multiple games in one order to lessen the shipping/tax blow.

 
falsedichotomies said:
Was breaking down an order from Limited Run today and just realized they're charging sales tax on shipping costs in addition to item costs. Couldn't figure out why the sales tax number was off until it finally hit me. Kind of blew my mind. Do other sites do this as well?
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The taxability of shipping charges varies by state. And yes, other online stores, at least the ones that properly calculate sales tax, do charge those taxes on shipping if required in the specific state to which the item is being shipped.

 
falsedichotomies said:
Was breaking down an order from Limited Run today and just realized they're charging sales tax on shipping costs in addition to item costs. Couldn't figure out why the sales tax number was off until it finally hit me. Kind of blew my mind. Do other sites do this as well?
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I've not seen it done that way before. Amazon charges tax on the items purchased, not the cost to ship (for those items you have to pay shipping on). Same for BB and Walmart. It probably has to do with the generic charge they have for shipping rather than having a specific charge based on weight and other factors.

 
nightc1 said:
I've not seen it done that way before. Amazon charges tax on the items purchased, not the cost to ship (for those items you have to pay shipping on). Same for BB and Walmart. It probably has to do with the generic charge they have for shipping rather than having a specific charge based on weight and other factors.
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Again, it depends where you live in the United States.https://www.avalara.com/blog/en/north-america/2018/11/how-to-handle-sales-tax-on-shipping-a-state-by-state-guide.html

 
Bojay is correct, check your states if retailers are supposed to tax shipping.  For a long time I thought Amazon and other retailers were screwing me by taxing shipping, but I eventually found out my state (PA) requires this.  That's why I try to look for free shipping whenever I can.

It is also possible that LRG is screwing up (they will blame Shopify of course), so verify that your state doesn't charge tax on shipping and then let  LRG know if that is the case.  It might get the ball rolling on them fixing it.  For example, for the longest time they were charging people local tax despite not living in those cities (Allegheny County in my example).  It took them about 6 months, and a lot of partial refunds, but they finally fixed it.

 
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I checked my state and it should be exempt though it also might not be because LRG uses UPS Mail Innovations and that may not qualify as a common carrier.   I think that's the hitch.

Either way I haven't ordered directly from LRG in a few years (since Golf Story) and am just dealing with Best Buy for the LRG games I'm interested in but won't be terribly upset if I miss them.  For BB, I've never been charged tax on the shipping costs.  Same for Amazon and other services.  But they all use common carriers.

 
nightc1 said:
I checked my state and it should be exempt though it also might not be because LRG uses UPS Mail Innovations and that may not qualify as a common carrier. I think that's the hitch.

Either way I haven't ordered directly from LRG in a few years (since Golf Story) and am just dealing with Best Buy for the LRG games I'm interested in but won't be terribly upset if I miss them. For BB, I've never been charged tax on the shipping costs. Same for Amazon and other services. But they all use common carriers.
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UPS Mail Innovations is USPS essentially

 
SephirothWF said:
UPS Mail Innovations is USPS essentially
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Actually it's a joint venture between UPS and USPS where UPS picks up the packages and delivers them to each zone/region where USPS takes over and handles the actual local delivery. It's not a common carrier but rather a middle-man service for bulk shipping.

I'm just pointing this out for those that have bought from LRG and based on their state shouldn't be getting charged tax on the shipping when they are in a state that is tax exempt on common carriers. Plus the way LRG charges shipping, last I checked, was not based on the actual shipping cost but other factors as well... which also may disqualify the shipping from being tax exempt as some states do tax "handling fees" and that may be how LRG is classifying the charge.

 
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