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Not surprised that the Star Wars stuff didn't sell out fast, by LRG standards. Anybody that wanted any of those titles could have had them easily without rushing. Usually when stuff in the morning run doesn't sell out quickly then the afternoon run's sales are pretty slow. My thinking on the Star Wars games is that even if they don't sell out completely, LRG still will have garnered a good deal of publicity from offering the Star Wars games, as well as have a feather in their cap for the future.

I have zero interest in paying an exorbitant amount of money for repros of mediocre games that are readily available in their original form, but apparently there is enough interest from Star Wars collectors to make it all worth LRG's effort. I hope people are not buying these with hopes of them becoming super valuable down the line. LRG are releasing so many different titles now, and in many cases in not incredibly limited numbers versus demand for said titles, that their games are not going to be worth a whole lot down the line in most cases.

 
I think people buying LRG games expecting gold mines in the future are in for a rude awakening. Just buy them if you want physical copies. I have been supporting the shmups and VNs myself with some other ones like Toe Jam and Earl.

 
redman77 said:
I hope people are not buying these with hopes of them becoming super valuable down the line. LRG are releasing so many different titles now, and in many cases in not incredibly limited numbers versus demand for said titles, that their games are not going to be worth a whole lot down the line in most cases.
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nitrosmob said:
I think people buying LRG games expecting gold mines in the future are in for a rude awakening. Just buy them if you want physical copies. I have been supporting the shmups and VNs myself with some other ones like Toe Jam and Earl.
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If anyone is even remotely thinking about using these games as some investment needs their heads examined, and on top of that they haven't being paying much attention for the last few years. Outside of these last very limited Vita releases, and an occasional PS4/NS title, most of LRG offerings in recent times can be had for less than what they where originally offered for.

While I had no doubt this SW stuff would sell out at some point, I never saw any great demand either, but that's cool, as not every "limited" item needs to be the most desired of all time(sell out in seconds/minutes). If LRG is making funds offering something others want to add to their collections, or just want a decent little collectible, why would I care? I'm sure over time, stuff like this will only grow in demand, as more potential buyers find out about said items coming to market.

 
The NES and GB games are fine, but I still have no idea how they are going to sell over 10,000 copes of Bounty Hunter

 
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On the Power Rangers CE's, Josh Mentioned on twitter in the same thread that any units unsold of the CE's just wouldn't be manufactured.  So they won't be stuck with unsold inventory.   Glad they aren't under contract for a specific number of units.

 
nightc1 said:
On the Power Rangers CE's, Josh Mentioned on twitter in the same thread that any units unsold of the CE's just wouldn't be manufactured. So they won't be stuck with unsold inventory. Glad they aren't under contract for a specific number of units.
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That's normally not how it works when they produce these things, so I'm not sure I buy that.

 
Maybe 2,000 was the sweet spot for those NES/GB CEs?   That Bounty Hunter CE is still available, so I guess "Star Wars" doesn't necessarily guarantee a quick sell out for everything.  

 
MaximusDM said:
That's normally not how it works when they produce these things, so I'm not sure I buy that.
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It is odd, but given the game isn’t done and they supposedly sold a lot of standalone copies maybe that gives them some flexibility to lower the number of CEs. What would be kind of nice is to get more info on the final production size for each game since so much now is open preorder which makes it difficult to see how limited these limited run games really are.
 
sephiroth61787 said:
It’s LRG that sold that many copies. Not downloads.
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nightc1 said:
On the Power Rangers CE's, Josh Mentioned on twitter in the same thread that any units unsold of the CE's just wouldn't be manufactured. So they won't be stuck with unsold inventory. Glad they aren't under contract for a specific number of units.
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Keep in mind that in the 17K sold figure Josh is quoting he is likely counting the number ordered from the unnamed B&M retailer that will be selling it. Figure a minimum of 10K for that retailer (5K for each platform). Then divvy the remaining 7K across both standard and CE for Switch/PS4. I think the Switch sold around 2K CEs and the PS4 around 800 CEs before they took away the minimums, so that's about 2800 allotted to the CEs on both platforms and 4200 sold across the standard editions across both platforms.

I am totally estimating a lot of the numbers, but when you factor in all the copies being sold to the B&M retailer that will be carrying it, the sell through to regular LRG customers doesn't seem particularly impressive.

 
Josef said:
Keep in mind that in the 17K sold figure Josh is quoting he is likely counting the number ordered from the unnamed B&M retailer that will be selling it. Figure a minimum of 10K for that retailer (5K for each platform). Then divvy the remaining 7K across both standard and CE for Switch/PS4. I think the Switch sold around 2K CEs and the PS4 around 800 CEs before they took away the minimums, so that's about 2800 allotted to the CEs on both platforms and 4200 sold across the standard editions across both platforms.

I am totally estimating a lot of the numbers, but when you factor in all the copies being sold to the B&M retailer that will be carrying it, the sell through to regular LRG customers doesn't seem particularly impressive.
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Just conjecture at this point. We’ll never really know.
 
You guys should check out Sega 16 thoughts and opinions on LRG. Some of you are earning the title of being called a collectard.

 
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needler420 said:
You guys should check out Sega 16 thoughts and opinions on LRG. Some of you are earning the title of being called a collectard.
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OH NO! A random internet stranger out of 7.5 billion people of which I'll never know, meet, or care about typed some words online about me/us? Lordy lordy whatever will I do? My life is over and my feelings shattered!

 
Dr_dreadful said:
OH NO! A random internet stranger out of 7.5 billion people of which I'll never know, meet, or care about typed some words online about me/us? Lordy lordy whatever will I do? My life is over and my feelings shattered!
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Enjoy your $30 dollar burger king glitchfest indie games.

 
Don't think its been mentioned here yet but LRG is planning a July 4th blowout sale (similar to their January 1st sale) where excess stock of a lot of older titles will be put up, along with blind boxes again.

 
Josef said:
Don't think its been mentioned here yet but LRG is planning a July 4th blowout sale (similar to their January 1st sale) where excess stock of a lot of older titles will be put up, along with blind boxes again.
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Thank you for mentioning this! There are a few titles I've had my eye on that have been sold out for awhile now!
 
Has anyone received their Lumines Remastered Block Rockin’ Beats editions yet? They sent me a tracking number a little over a month ago with no traction so I’m just curious.
 
Josef said:
Don't think its been mentioned here yet but LRG is planning a July 4th blowout sale (similar to their January 1st sale) where excess stock of a lot of older titles will be put up, along with blind boxes again.
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Are you sure it's happening? I believe Douglas tweeted a couple weeks back that they didn't have time to pull stock, so it has been postponed.

 
bojay1997 said:
Are you sure it's happening? I believe Douglas tweeted a couple weeks back that they didn't have time to pull stock, so it has been postponed.
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Oh ok. I was just going by what they said in their last Fireside Chat which I finally had a chance to watch. It may very well have changed since then (a little over a week ago).

 
Hope they show what's going to be the price of the Transistor CE tomorrow. This has been the only game I want to buy a copy on each platform, but I don't want to spend $100+ if I don't have to.

Edit: Also looks like Giga Wrecker Alt is up on Best Buy if anyone is interested. The alt box art looks like the CE art, which I like better anyway.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/giga-wrecker-alt-nintendo-switch/6358567.p?skuId=6358567

 
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Zenaphobe Zerj said:
Hope they show what's going to be the price of the Transistor CE tomorrow. This has been the only game I want to buy a copy on each platform, but I don't want to spend $100+ if I don't have to.

Edit: Also looks like Giga Wrecker Alt is up on Best Buy if anyone is interested. The alt box art looks like the CE art, which I like better anyway.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/giga-wrecker-alt-nintendo-switch/6358567.p?skuId=6358567
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Hate to say but I’m about done supporting LRG any time they have a print run with Best Buy (talking CEs here). The BB version always ships before the one I ordered months before. Why am I scrambling to order a release when it equates always being last in line? Seriously LRG what’s the point to direct business to you?
 
Madzane said:
Hate to say but I’m about done supporting LRG any time they have a print run with Best Buy (talking CEs here). The BB version always ships before the one I ordered months before. Why am I scrambling to order a release when it equates always being last in line? Seriously LRG what’s the point to direct business to you?
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To provide their struggling business with interest free loans

FWIW giga wrecker alt doesnt ship from BB til late July, which I believe is about what LRG was targeting for release?

 
Reviews on it were mediocre anyways. I was glad i skipped it when they were selling it before we even knew whether the game was any good or not
 
Admittedly, the logic doesn't make much sense, but buying from LRG is just ensuring you get a copy, as there are no guarantees with BBY. Granted, that hasn't become an issue yet, but you never know. I also stopped buying games you could get through Best Buy though, as I can save on shipping.

 
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needler420 said:
You guys should check out Sega 16 thoughts and opinions on LRG. Some of you are earning the title of being called a collectard.
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I couldn't find what you were referring too. A link would be helpful if you want people to check out something.

As far as that term, I don't think we have anyone left that actually buys every release on every platform. There was plenty of negativity/confusion in the logic behind releasing repros of common cheap and fairly mediocre quality games. Still, there was no link to read it... so maybe it was about something else?

 
addicted2games said:
I am thinking its this thread:

http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?34370-What-can-we-do-to-stop-runs-in-limited-quantities
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I don't think they brought up anything we haven't discussed/argued about in this thread. The gist of what they are discussing there is the concept of limited production runs of games across all sites and the artificial inflation of interest in titles. It's less about LRG directly and more about these businesses. Ultimately these business only survive by being limited. The one thing LRG has at least done as a benefit is change to unlimited open preorders for vanilla switch games and some PS4 games and they stopped publishing the production size of releases with open preorders so there's no rarity information to drive up demand. That makes it where everyone that wants the game can at least get the vanilla version and the secondary market has suffered driving the flippers to target the vita (which will be over soon enough). Plus with BB carrying some games that has eaten into those trying to exploit the games as being rare.

The person's question about what they can do to stop limited print games is ... absolutely nothing but watch and see what happens.

 
LRG coming out july 9th 12pm ET

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Well, that's long past due to say the least, as I actually contacted Soedesco directly and never got a reply. I had the physical EU version ages ago, especially since I never heard back from anyone about a US release.

Like always, I would love to get the artbook here, but unless this is Play-Asia priced($35, which is very doubtful), this will be an easy pass. I'm pretty sure this won't be a part of LRG official US run count, so another reason for me to pass this one over. Decent game though, as it had a unique gameplay mechanic, but it didn't always work as well as it should. So a cool idea like Portal, without the solid execution of Portal. LOL

 
That was a long time coming for Teslagrad.  I contacted the dev ages ago about it and there was no NA physical planned at the time.   The deeper I got into the game (it was free on PS+ or it was so cheap i bought it) the more the physics seemed to be inconsistent... so I just kind of forgot about it.

 
So I ordered ToeJam & Earl, and when the tracking showed that it had arrived it wasn't in my mailbox. I contacted LRG about it, and they told me they would only send a replacement if I could provide a written statement from USPS stating that the package had been delivered to the wrong address. It took 4 visits to the PO until they finally gave that to me. I went to the house that it was supposedly misdelivered to, but they told me it couldn't have been delivered to their house because they didn't have a mailbox. LRG ended up sending me a replacement, and then, about a week after I received that, a woman who lived a couple houses down from where USPS said they misdelivered to brought the original package to me. It was opened but everything was there. So I had to make a fifth trip to the PO to return it. Just wanted to vent that.

 
sayu said:
So I ordered ToeJam & Earl, and when the tracking showed that it had arrived it wasn't in my mailbox. I contacted LRG about it, and they told me they would only send a replacement if I could provide a written statement from USPS stating that the package had been delivered to the wrong address. It took 4 visits to the PO until they finally gave that to me. I went to the house that it was supposedly misdelivered to, but they told me it couldn't have been delivered to their house because they didn't have a mailbox. LRG ended up sending me a replacement, and then, about a week after I received that, a woman who lived a couple houses down from where USPS said they misdelivered to brought the original package to me. It was opened but everything was there. So I had to make a fifth trip to the PO to return it. Just wanted to vent that.
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Sure hope you charged them for return shipping on that one. Other wise you're too nice and gullible.

 
Wayforward's River City Girls just announced for PS4, NSW, X1, PC with LRG doing the physical release.

River City Girls will launch digitally for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam, GOG, and Humble Bundle on September 5 for $29.99, publisher and developer WayForward announced. A physical edition will also be released via Limited Run Games.
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https://twitter.com/WayForward/status/1146468827678437376
 
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HaloGX said:
That game does look good.

But let's call LRG what they are now: just straight up a publisher.
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Isn't that what they have always been? They publish other people's games in a physical format, sell, and distribute them. They have never been anything but that since the release of breach and clear.

 
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