What kind of money grab is this?

[Denial94]

20$ for this pixel trash?
What next? Games imported from Nokia 1011?

[[サガ] Baz]

A money grab with the first three SaGa games and that alone is worth 20$.

[Flashback007]

I love how always with these collections/remasters etc people come crawling out of the woodwork saying: "this is bad". Meanwhile people who really wanted this for a long time are happy about it. If that's really how you want to spend your time please continue, but don't be surprised when you're ignored or talked back to

[Ratzfire Storyteller]

Wow and no that fair price for 3 Gameboy games form the 90's and people still play Pixel games, Undertale, Stardew Valley and terraria. All price around the same price when they came out.

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Denial94:

20$ for this pixel trash?
What next? Games imported from Nokia 1011?

I really was hoping for at least a Secret of Mana tier remake....

I have to agree on this one. SNES is one thing, but Gameboy games are like 16KB or something. The picture on the main menu is probably bigger than both games combined.

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

even when this came out on the switch people were "eh" about it
most were hoping for the remakes to be ported and translated instead

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Lord Doober De La Goober MXI:

even when this came out on the switch people were "eh" about it
most were hoping for the remakes to be ported and translated instead

The original GB versions should have just been included for free with true-to-form remakes. It's not something worth paying for at this point.

[KingShadowOmega]

Originally posted by Flashback007:

I love how always with these collections/remasters etc people come crawling out of the woodwork saying: "this is bad". Meanwhile people who really wanted this for a long time are happy about it. If that's really how you want to spend your time please continue, but don't be surprised when you're ignored or talked back to

I don't disagree that there are always people who complain...but come on. We're talking about 3 tiny as hell ORIGINAL Game Boy games. It's not like other collections with SNES, GBA, or PS1 titles. These are GAME BOY games. $20 is a bit much for games that don't even have color. I mean, I'm totally on board with giving us these 3 games, even at $20, but remaster them appropriately. Let's be real...no one really wants to go back and play original GB games (tetris not included). The 16 bit style games though? SNES, Genesis, and GBA? Yeah those are in high demand. Spruce this collection up. Give it color for crying out loud. I'm not saying the games are bad...but it's a hard sell at $20 for these three games. Hell, I wasn't too thrilled with the new Castlevania Advance Collection, but at least those games (4 titles mind you) were on the GBA (well SNES for Dracula X) and were all awesome, and looked great. I know very little about emulation, but even I can incorporate a speed up function and border around the screen. That doesn't take a HUGE company to do. This just feels lazy and a cash grab.

[Melodia]

If 'no one' wants it how is it a cash grab, as they won't get any cash

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Melodia:

If 'no one' wants it how is it a cash grab, as they won't get any cash

Could the production cost is so low, they make money on a single sale. They already made the money on the gameboy versions, they just dumped the ROM and put it in an opensource emulator wrapping. The cost to make this was probably $10,000 at most.

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by Bad_Conduct:

Originally posted by Melodia:

If 'no one' wants it how is it a cash grab, as they won't get any cash

Because the production cost is so low, they make money on a single sale. They already made the money on the gameboy versions, they just dumped the ROM and put it in an opensource emulator wrapping. The cost to make this was probably $10,000 at most.

[MoobooMagoo]

Well I've already bought it once for Switch and now I'm going to buy it again here. I love these games and played them all the time when I was a kid, so I don't mind buying them again.
I might wait for a sale, though. It depends on how long it takes for me to finish the game I'm currently playing.

[浣熊市的偷電賊]

I bought this game series after it launched. For you, it may be out-dated game but for me, it is the game series that I loved most! Can you imagine that you can bought the first game from steam and store it forever? I will play through all this series this time again!

[Almostward]

Its kinda sad when SE was the leader of JRPGs, and made mostly hits. Now adays they do quick cash grabs with minimal work for the quick buck.

[Bad_Conduct]

Originally posted by 浣熊市的偷電賊:

I bought this game series after it launched. For you, it may be out-dated game but for me, it is the game series that I loved most! Can you imagine that you can bought the first game from steam and store it forever? I will play through all this series this time again!

"storing it forever" is a bit misleading, you don't actually own games in your Steam library. If Valve ever disables your account, sells out, or goes out of business, they are technically "leasing" the game to you and can claw it back and remove your account at any point.

"According to the agreement that you agree to every single time you buy a game on Steam, "the Content and Services are licensed, not sold. Your license confers no title or ownership in the Content and Services." You're not buying the games, you're buying the license to use them."

[Oortcloud]

If they were like the pixel remaster games, it would have been an immediate purchase from me. Sorry but I can do without these.