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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:23:14 JST Sick Sun
   I heard some bad things about Limited Run Games but is there a list of shitty things they've done?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:25:17 JST Sick Sun

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     I see a lot of people complaining about scalpers selling for triple the price on ebay. That's not their fault.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:36:02 JST Sick Sun

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     @BitBun I just found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS3ja5JnkAQ
     
     The guy is claiming he tracked down LRG "partners" and that they get a guaranteed batch of the games first and these partners are who are putting them on ebay for inflated prices, so it turns out they are responsible for it.
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     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:36:05 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

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     @sun Also, they don't help with the scalpers that's for sure, other companies do things like take orders over a period of time for limited releases. But everything LRG does is there to make you buy stuff asap because it's "limited", it's in the business practice. So while yes they don't cause the scalpers, they definitely allow such a market to exist.

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     ~BitBun~ :bunRetro: (bitbun@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:36:08 JST ~BitBun~ :bunRetro:

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     @sun My experience from them is:

     1. They do shitty fomo practices where you have to buy many versions of the same game to "complete" a thing. They really benefit from whales.
     2. They don't keep their promise of forever physical, they have in the past released games that need day one patches which kinda defeats the point of their stated goal of preservation.
     3. Did you buy something? Get fucked and wait literally 6mo minimum with little in the way of updates about the thing you bought.

     I don't like their business practices, but I go through them when it's something I really want. They really try to fomo you though, it feels slime-y.

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     brimshae (brimshae@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:40:15 JST brimshae

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     • ランファン
     @leyonhjelm @sun Most recent thing that comes to mind is selling burned CD-Rs as new/original media instead of properly pressed discs.
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     ランファン (leyonhjelm@breastmilk.club)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:40:16 JST ランファン

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     That’s the nature of limited anything. I’m not even sure I’d call it scalping. If that’s the market price after it runs out that is the new market price
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:41:53 JST Sick Sun

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     I also found a case where they censored a game and didn't tell anyone (also you don't censor a game if you allegedly are trying to "preserve" it.)
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     kumicota (kumicota@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:42:40 JST kumicota

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     I don't know all of them but here's a few complains that I know:
     
     - Recently they sold a 3DO game that it was just a CD-R, so you couldn't even boot it on a original console
     
     - They profit on FOMO(Which isn't their fault)
     
     - Firing employees for ideology
     
     - There's some talks that some of their employees and company itself prints more copies than they sell and later sell them for high profit margins on ebay
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     Sandstar (sandstar@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 04:54:59 JST Sandstar

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     nobody covets the normal limited run game releases, they're all under 100 on ebay (the ps4 ones)
     smart if they resell the premium editions on ebay. limited editions are garbage. The only special editions i own of any game are all the senran kagura games.
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