How Sega can make Adventure Remakes work

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Just do what Doom 3 does and include the original games when you buy the Remakes, that's it. If this is how they handled the Genesis games when Origins came out, nobody would've been complaining. In an age where preservation is a legitimate concern, I would like this to be an industry standard. Not providing the original as an option is trying to re-write history (Shame on Rockstar Games in particular).

The same thing goes for Sonic x Shadow Generations by the way.

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Fortunately, this practice is actually a lot more common than you may think it is.

When the Tomb Raider trilogy remasters came out, the original versions of those games remained available to buy alongside their remasters, allowing players to choose which versions of the games they prefer. Same thing happened with the Star Wars Battlefront Collection - the original versions of Battlefront 1 and 2, as well as Dark Forces for that matter, were kept available for sale.

When Atari released RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic on Steam which was essentially a remaster of RCT2 with maps from the first game, they didn't de-list RCT1 or 2 to "replace" the remastered Classic version - they kept the original games available to buy on the store as well as the newer version.

Ori and the Blind Forest got de-llisted once the Definitive Edition released on Steam. However, the original version was included with all purchases of the Definitive Edition meaning there's still a way for new customers to buy the game in the current year. Those that bought the original even got a discount on the Definitive Edition.

Those are far from the only examples out there, and it makes you wonder why SEGA, RockStar or FromSoft can't do the same when other publishers have shown that this practice is not at all necessary. It also makes these three publishers look bad and out of touch by comparison. I don't even understand it from a business perspective either as if the goal was to make as much money as possible from customers, wouldn't they be able to do so if we were able to buy two versions of the same game instead of just one?

As a side note, I'm more worried about Generations than I am Adventure at the moment because it's confirmed that Generations has a remaster coming which will most likely replace the original game the same way Origins did. Whereas Adventure remake(s) at this time are only rumoured to be a thing, and I won't believe a single peep of these rumours until I hear official confirmation from SEGA themselves.