Treat customers with respect and sell back stock at a discount.
Blind boxes is just gambling which should be outlawed on many fronts since we know much better how it works from a socioeconomic and psychology perspective.
Not seeing our fearless friend stepping in to support this cause. Everyone loves spending money on things they'd never buy in hopes of getting the one they wanted, right?
Here's to all the folks getting Bill & Ted in their stockings come ... May?
Oh lord i forgot Bill and Ted went up for order. That carbon release doesn't even have a finished digital SKU yet so uh, those physicals are gonna be a long while. They may have not sold the greatest but even still, I'm guessing they're polishing up the digital version before prepping the physicals, but you'd think they'd just do what they are doing for Rendering Ranger and just put it up for order closer to the DL launch.
TBH though I can't blame them for the blind boxes, or even the LRG store exclusive ones, since so much stuff hasn't hit MOQ lately and distro games have always generally sold low to the point lots of leftovers are available on the site (the PM studios games like Holy potatoes are basically a meme like Jumanji at this point) that they might as well mix them with some of the higher-demanded games. Even though it is pretty stupid, at least VGP is getting more limprint stuff in than ever for casual buying.
https://twitter.com/LimitedRunStore/status/1608547292562468865?cxt=HHwWgsDRma_P2tIsAAAA
I do think it's funny though that LRG are promoting in-stock items and a few weeks ago we got that email that was like "Want something sooner, buy these!" yet a lot of people are reporting on the reddit and just generally that their LRG Books, Astro Minis and other in-stock items are just taking eons to ship, with some having had "in hand" orders for 2+ months now. Great sign when you have 300 items in production all at the exact same god damn time, and most of your social replies are just asking where the stuff from last year/in-hand stuff went rather than what the actual new stuff coming out is.
I'm still hoping 2023 will have them go out strong on the carbon engine to prove that Embracer's purchase was smart and that's at least a direction I can hope for them to turn around their woes in, since if we get lots of Carbon reissues of stuff like Rendering Ranger R2 (already confirmed), Clock Tower, Snatcher, Twinkle Tale, Keio Flying Squadron or other such rare games... Hoooo boy, that would be exciting and i'd gladly support those digitally. Still never touching a physical product from their site ever again with the current shape of things though, especially not their CEs ever again
