$30 for an uglier version of a PS1 game

[adobe slabs]

Why would anyone buy this? The original looks better and can easily be played on PC already.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Can I have some of the koolaid juice too seem you been drinking a little too much.
https://youtu.be/ddSR2coFAl8

[Geist]

Seems worth it to me. This is the best it has ever looked. They did an good job with the backgrounds. Sprites are the same but you can only do so much with those. Rather have them pixelated than looking like melted crayons.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Last time I check PS1 games are at 240p resolution or lower and varies on the texture quality too. Now we're getting 1080p remaster of the game, I do want to see another comparison when it does comes out, but from what shown for now, seem pretty alright for the remaster.

[Solace]

I would pay 60.

[Jouchebag]

Still an odd price for the limited audience of 34 year old guys who want this. But then again, I'm sure they've crunched the numbers in all sorts of AI simulations and came up with $30 as the exact price a lonely weeb would pay.

[Pastor⛧Biden]

Originally posted by Solace:

I would pay 60.

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[hgfsdghfsdgf]

What's better to price game that won't sell well cause of very limited audience low or high? Of course higher price in this case is better, it's not mainstream game and sells won't dramatically imrpove just because they offer it for the lowest price they can.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Mysterlool:

What's better to price game that won't sell well cause of very limited audience low or high? Of course higher price in this case is better, it's not mainstream game and sells won't dramatically imrpove just because they offer it for the lowest price they can.

The problem is that I haven't spent more than $20 on a game in 10 years and I have 400+ games in my library including many AAA titles. I'm sure the game will go on sale eventually and $15 seems about right. At least they didn't pull another:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/921570/OCTOPATH_TRAVELER/

Not that reviews are indicative of popularity but only 5300 reviews for a $60 retro game clearly means they priced out a bunch of folks. By comparison, Persona 4G has 36,000 reviews and was released less than a year ago.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113000/Persona_4_Golden/

Got to wonder if that $60 tag (or $30 for LoM) is worth it lined up next to literal Gold.

[Iron Breaker]

Originally posted by N a p o r e o n:

Originally posted by Solace:

I would pay 60.

X2

x3

[Jouchebag]

Best thing this game has going for it is the co-op. Not much else to set this ancient, insipid children's game apart from modern games.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the game when I was 10. Maybe my kids could splash around enjoyably today. However, I won't be diving back into this, especially at $30. Because I'm a grown-up with limited free time and no impulse to crap away money.

Almost nobody who made this game even still works for Square-Enix. Who are you paying for this? The 4 people who spent a couple weeks porting the game using higher resolution sources that have been laying around in a database somewhere for 20 years? $30 seems like a lot for that.

[Stormy Dawn]

Because the original doesn't really look better? Especially if you aren't playing on a traditional CRT, which not too many people keep one of those around just to play older games.

Honestly I would have paid more than $30. I'm happy it's only $30 because I agree that remasters shouldn't be MSRP'd at the price of new titles by their inherit nature. But let's be honest, Square Enix could have sold it for $60 and there would still be longtime fans of the Mana franchise that would eat it up. Especially considering it's getting harder each year to play this game because the PS One Classic is only available for PS3, PSP and Vita - all of which are becoming less commonplace each passing year.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by Tsurayu:

considering it's getting harder each year to play this game because the PS One Classic is only available for PS3, PSP and Vita - all of which are becoming less commonplace each passing year.

Super glad they're making this happen. Just not convinced the price really says "We love our fans!" so much as "We are milking nostalgia!"

[Chromie]

SO NOT BUY IT, like how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard is it to not buy a game?

[Stormy Dawn]

Originally posted by Jouchebag:

Super glad they're making this happen. Just not convinced the price really says "We love our fans!" so much as "We are milking nostalgia!"

Well to be honest, it probably is a matter of both to them.

It's not like they're doing this for charity, or at the kindness of their hearts. Their bottom line means more to them than just about anything else. Their goal is to try to make as much money out of a product as they can without negatively impacting sales as a result of greed.

And they have decided $30 is the amount they can get away with. And if it turns out they were wrong, they game will go sale quickly, and often, to try to recoup the loses compared to their projected sales figures.

[Truest Lord Pancake]

Originally posted by Chromie:

SO NOT BUY IT, like how ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard is it to not buy a game?

Because they need you to see them not buying it. How else will you see how "cool'', they are.