• Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      It’s a no brainer, it’s a remaster so no new designing, no new story or landscape, just polishing what was expertly crafted many years ago. The problem with the high-end gaming industry is that the publishers and corporate devs take more and more liberties for their benefit, harming others in the process such as:

      • Constant patch updates after an unfinished release instead of releasing a game in its entirety;
      • Crunch culture on employees to get a publisher deadline that probably really doesn’t matter more than the mental and physical wellbeing of the team;
      • Selling licenses to access mandatory online features of games, without which the game is rendered broken instead of perfectly playable, for example a leaderboard that just stops working and doesn’t affect gameplay in any way.

      It seems they’re now trying to pass old refreshed games off at full price to capitalmaxx off a new generation, as well as nostalgic returnees.

    • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Yo ho, me hearties. You own it already. “Update” your copy to its current iteration for free. 🤌🏼

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        I can understand they want some more money but since I already own the game, it is a graphic improving DLC. Should be £10-£15 max.

        • Øπ3ŕ@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          17 hours ago

          Meh. It’s a remaster. Mostly automated, anyhow. Charging for that barely-half-assed re-re-re-release isn’t just greedy AF, it’s a slap in our peasant faces with global cost-of-living in the fuckin’ stratosphere. You owe it to yourself to spend your finite cash more wisely. These fucks don’t need it, and none of the original devs get a cent of it now, anyhow.

        • Minnels@lemmy.zip
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          22 hours ago

          But the update is so much more work than a horse armor dlc which is a lot of money for no content.