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Typoman looks like a cute concept but it's not something I'm gonna die without.

I'm really hoping 4/20 doesn't have any releases. It's my birthday, I have a tattoo scheduled for that morning, and I'm gonna be high as fuck.
 
315Retro said:
Typoman looks like a cute concept but it's not something I'm gonna die without.

I'm really hoping 4/20 doesn't have any releases. It's my birthday, I have a tattoo scheduled for that morning, and I'm gonna be high as fuck.
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Sounds like my 4/20, minus the B-Day & tattoo of course. LOL

In all seriousness, Happy B-Day(best date EVER!), and don't forget, it's Labo day as well, so you might not want to miss out on that. But I would have to be high as fuck to buy that, so they picked the perfect release date. LOL

 
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Ah man, I do want typo man but not really for the PS4. That's gonna be a pass for me. It recently came to the switch so..crossing me fingers there, and giving myself more false hope haha.
 
DetectiveConanA113 said:
LOL

Ah man, I do want typo man but not really for the PS4. That's gonna be a pass for me. It recently came to the switch so..crossing me fingers there, and giving myself more false hope haha.
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I thought I saw where one of the new LRG copycat companies was making typoman physical for the Switch? Maybe super rare games?

 
I really like that PAX variant cover for The Bit Trip, but it's not worth purchasing for if one owns the game already, in my opinion, the Munch's Oddysee variant either (I still love the original cover used from the Xbox release). But at least there's options for people.

 
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That Munch's Odyssey wont last a minute. How much they tease.... Likely skipping out on  the Friday release,  but when Rabi Rabi or any other VNs release it will be a bloodbath you hear?

 
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It's annoys me when you go to watch trailers for one of these games on Steam (Senko no Ronde 2), there's three of them, and about 5% of it is actual gameplay.

 
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falsedichotomies said:
I don't know about anyone else, but LRG owes me 13 fucking games right now.

How do they get away with it?
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They typically write on the product page that the game won’t ship right away. You can’t really get upset it takes a while considering they tell you it’s a “pre-order” when you place the order..
 
But they’d have to “pre-sell” massive quantities of games for it to be worth investing the profit etc.
 
chrislaustin said:
Sounds like my 4/20, minus the B-Day & tattoo of course. LOL

In all seriousness, Happy B-Day(best date EVER!), and don't forget, it's Labo day as well, so you might not want to miss out on that. But I would have to be high as fuck to buy that, so they picked the perfect release date. LOL
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Ha! Thank you! Actually I already have God of War paid off but I was torn between that and labo. Waiting for reviews first :D
 
315Retro said:
Ha! Thank you! Actually I already have God of War paid off but I was torn between that and labo. Waiting for reviews first :D
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Yeah, my son had been holding on to a $50 Amazon gift card from Christmas for Labo. Then today, he opted to use it for Detective Pikachu, and had completely forgot about Labo. I think he was happy to get DP, as he likes the Phoenix Wright and Layton type games, but DP brings the subject matter down to his level, so it was a solid buy in the end.

 
Olengie said:
Sucks for anyone who HAS to buy every variant though. Lol
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Yeah, I wish we knew the rest of the months schedule, as far as new releases go. As I'm considering the Vita variants, but I really don't need either, especially if there are actual "new" releases happening later in the month. I'll guess I'll just keep it in my mind until Friday, and see where my mouse takes me at 7am. LOL

 
boylover said:
Why have they still not printed Salt & Sanctuary? It was announced so long ago. =(
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There's a shit ton of titles that got announced ages ago, and until any are officially cancelled, they should all still be happening. A few PS4/Vita titles are in a holding pattern until the Vita side gets technical issues worked out.

 
falsedichotomies said:
I don't know about anyone else, but LRG owes me 13 fucking games right now.

How do they get away with it?
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I've got 6 orders with 20 games. I wouldn't mind if they weren't jerking themselves off so much over their success. We went from receiving games within 2 weeks of orders being placed, to every game being a preorder without calling it a preorder.

 
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TimPV3 said:
I've got 6 orders with 20 games. I wouldn't mind if they weren't jerking themselves off so much over their success. We went from receiving games within 2 weeks of orders being placed, to every game being a preorder without calling it a preorder.
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Still waiting on a bunch of stuff myself. I'm sure the quantity of releases isn't helping the logistics situation. It's hard enough to ship out 10,000 units, once you get behind (i.e. have to wait on stock to arrive), it's really hard to catch up. I imagine the sheer quantity of Thimbleweed orders is going to augment the situation even further.

All this to say, having some familiarity with logistics myself, I don't envy the situation they're getting into.

 
Only 5 things for me, but that is largely due to cutting back on my purchases since I got rid of the buy every Vita release mentality around January.

 
So.... you guys have been living in luxery off the success from other developers. Are you guys going to develop any original content any time soon?
 
skiizim said:
So.... you guys have been living in luxery off the success from other developers. Are you guys going to develop any original content any time soon?
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If Saturday Morning RPG reaches it's intended numbers for the NS(digital & physical), they plan to look in to offering a part 2.

 
Tothoro said:
Still waiting on a bunch of stuff myself. I'm sure the quantity of releases isn't helping the logistics situation. It's hard enough to ship out 10,000 units, once you get behind (i.e. have to wait on stock to arrive), it's really hard to catch up. I imagine the sheer quantity of Thimbleweed orders is going to augment the situation even further.

All this to say, having some familiarity with logistics myself, I don't envy the situation they're getting into.
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Speaking as someone who has seen what it takes to get 4k orders a day out of an actual fulfillment center(granted much larger and more complex orders than LRG) I don't want to think about the amount of crap they are burying themselves under right now.

 
Dashey10 said:
Is anyone here overwhelmed for next friday? That's 8 games for me since I'm a variant collector. This is fucking insane.
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Not gonna lie... Three sealed variants of a $50 game is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. The least they could do is offer a discounted bundle, or limit the amount of variants all together. Otherwise, no collector is keeping up at this pace...
 
That many games coming out at retail in a single day would be bananas, even if it was from multiple publishers. But we are looking at having that many at once from one publisher, and you have to buy them all that day for full price (plus S&H) or else taking your chances on eBay is your only recourse. Meanwhile more and more copy cat companies spring up and the market continues to flood. In the words of my good friend Shaun: fuck.Right.Off.

 
Darshminder said:
Not gonna lie... Three sealed variants of a $50 game is kinda rubbing me the wrong way. The least they could do is offer a discounted bundle, or limit the amount of variants all together. Otherwise, no collector is keeping up at this pace...
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no such things as discounts :lol:

 
Zaku77 said:
That many games coming out at retail in a single day would be bananas, even if it was from multiple publishers. But we are looking at having that many at once from one publisher, and you have to buy them all that day for full price (plus S&H) or else taking your chances on eBay is your only recourse. Meanwhile more and more copy cat companies spring up and the market continues to flood. In the words of my good friend Shaun: fuck.Right.Off.
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10 different game skus coming out on the same day isn't that uncommon. At least at Best Buy. ;)

 
Zaku77 said:
I guess I'm not really counting things like an Ubisoft game having 4+ versions on each platform lol.
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Why not? It's frankly the exact same thing. I get that there are probably more variant collectors of LRG releases, but there are plenty of variant cover releases that come from the major publishers, even if the variation is something as minor a Walmart exclusive skin or DLC logo on the actual case artwork. Far Cry 5 in the US had three collector's editions and a standard, gold and Mondo exclusive release. The Mondo release even had different disc art in the standard case.

 
bojay1997 said:
Why not? It's frankly the exact same thing. I get that there are probably more variant collectors of LRG releases, but there are plenty of variant cover releases that come from the major publishers, even if the variation is something as minor a Walmart exclusive skin or DLC logo on the actual case artwork. Far Cry 5 in the US had three collector's editions and a standard, gold and Mondo exclusive release. The Mondo release even had different disc art in the standard case.
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The problem with this analogy is that Far Cry 5 variants will be dirt cheap in a couple years, I'm guessing $5-10 each on a bad day like Far Cry 2-4 are right now at GameStop, so people who really want both the Walmart and Target cases should have no problem picking them up for pennies on the dollar later on down the line.

Luckily I'm not a variant collector myself and just want a copy of each game physical for my one platform, but with the print sizes LRG have and their tendency to be bought by game collectors and not casuals, I doubt we'll ever see LRG en masse at the flea markets 10 years from now like we will with all the AAA release variants.

Niche games of the variety LRG put out usually get one printing, one cover and maybe a second, less desirable printing with less goodies if they're hugely popular. Niche games that buck this trend (Looking at you Summon Night 6) generally get seen for the petty collector cash grabs they are.

 
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bojay1997 said:
Why not? It's frankly the exact same thing. I get that there are probably more variant collectors of LRG releases, but there are plenty of variant cover releases that come from the major publishers, even if the variation is something as minor a Walmart exclusive skin or DLC logo on the actual case artwork. Far Cry 5 in the US had three collector's editions and a standard, gold and Mondo exclusive release. The Mondo release even had different disc art in the standard case.
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Not even close to the same thing... The whole reason why the "limited print" fad works is because it caters to collectors and preservationists as their primary base. Otherwise, everyone would just be purchasing these games during digital sales for $5 a pop. Retail games with variations of DLC included are intended to exploit gamers first, with a very small niche of collectors.

What bums me out is that Josh and Doug are fellow collectors who understand the issue on an intimate level, yet they are making it more and more difficult to justify each round of purchases. I'm sure that this has lots to do with their contracts, and rising competitors, but I truly hope that they re-evaluate their strategy now that they've seen how a pre-order model for Switch releases can work. They will undoubtedly succeed with the Nintendo fanbase alone, but I hope that they learn to balance their new business mentality with their original focus, otherwise, they are going to quickly lose their initial core group of consumers.
 
Darshminder said:
Not even close to the same thing... The whole reason why the "limited print" fad works is because it caters to collectors and preservationists as their primary base. Otherwise, everyone would just be purchasing these games during digital sales for $5 a pop. Retail games with variations of DLC included are intended to exploit gamers first, with a very small niche of collectors.

What bums me out is that Josh and Doug are fellow collectors who understand the issue on an intimate level, yet they are making it more and more difficult to justify each round of purchases. I'm sure that this has lots to do with their contracts, and rising competitors, but I truly hope that they re-evaluate their strategy now that they've seen how a pre-order model for Switch releases can work. They will undoubtedly succeed with the Nintendo fanbase alone, but I hope that they learn to balance their new business mentality with their original focus, otherwise, they are going to quickly lose their initial core group of consumers.
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Your argument has nothing to do with variants though. While there are some completionist collectors that "must" have them all, the majority of the LRG customer base is happy to have a physical copy of the game and doesn't need to grab 3-5 copies of everything so they can keep sealed copies with each variant cover facing out. I also feel like people have been making the same arguments that Doug and Josh were going to "kill the golden goose" from day one. They seem to have a good handle on how to run their business and while I appreciate that there may be a few collectors who want every cover variant of every game and will bitch and moan about how hard it is to buy ten SKUs on Friday, it seems like something that most of their customer base doesn't care about. As others have said over the past few months, you're never gonna make everyone happy and if these die-hard completionists have the money to drop $400 or more on Friday when all is said and done, they can pay the markup on Ebay if they happen to miss something or better yet, trade with other collectors to get what they want.

 
falsedichotomies said:
The problem with this analogy is that Far Cry 5 variants will be dirt cheap in a couple years, I'm guessing $5-10 each on a bad day like Far Cry 2-4 are right now at GameStop, so people who really want both the Walmart and Target cases should have no problem picking them up for pennies on the dollar later on down the line.

Luckily I'm not a variant collector myself and just want a copy of each game physical for my one platform, but with the print sizes LRG have and their tendency to be bought by game collectors and not casuals, I doubt we'll ever see LRG en masse at the flea markets 10 years from now like we will with all the AAA release variants.

Niche games of the variety LRG put out usually get one printing, one cover and maybe a second, less desirable printing with less goodies if they're hugely popular. Niche games that buck this trend (Looking at you Summon Night 6) generally get seen for the petty collector cash grabs they are.
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Hope County and the Mondo Edition have been sold out since launch and never dropped in price. As such, your argument fails in this instance and I'm sure many others where there have been retailer exclusives like steelbooks or variant covers.

 
I'm just glad I didn't listen to him last summer and continue buying every round of new releases under the guise of "releases are going to slow down".  Not only have they not slowed down, there are more new releases and more variants than before.  

 
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