“I hate you” = weak, ineffective, impersonal, does not convey disdain “I hope your favorite game gets a physical release from Limited Run Games” = strong, effective, targeted, conveys immense disdain

This just goes to show you that the future of game preservation lies with the communities that actually play the games. Corporations aren't your friends. Accessibility is just as important as preservation, and the emulation community has understood that for the past 20+ years.

I bought a friend the soundtrack to Scott Pilgrim on vinyl for his 32nd birthday. He received it when he turned 34.

Wow, LRG are so generous. I can believe they helped out the tiny indie studio, Electronic Arts, with their Command & Conquer Remastered physical edition. Such a hidden gem of a game.

Limited Run: Keep physical forever Also Limited Run: *Gives people steam codes instead of a disc*

You know who’s REALLY going to preserve gaming history? People who rip games onto their hard drives, upload them to servers, and those who keep the servers alive. Mike in Michigan who’s got a basement full of retro games doesn’t do shit for the general gaming community.

almost had a heart attack just now, hearing "Tommy Talarico" mentioned unironically

My first and last experience with LRG: I ordered an "IN STOCK" game, meaning it was already printed and sitting around at their warehouse. There was nothing extra included, it was just the game, so I expected shipping to be processed quickly. It took them 2-3 whole months to finally ship out the item after I had already paid months prior. I will NEVER order from them again.

The real preservationists are those working on emulation (especially accurate emulation) and are dumping games. It might be piracy now, but when all physical units inevitably break down, it'll be the only way to play. And because it's just software, we can keep it around no matter where technology goes in the next 100 years or so.

I remember a time when the "limited" part of gaming was pre-ordering from GameStop and getting a bunch of extra fluff and crap with your game (fancy box, stickers, soundtrack, lanyard, art book, etc.) Now, just getting the GAME ITSELF is a "pre-order exclusive" to be scalped endlessly. The gaming industry has really gone to shit

'Preserving' games by releasing them in incredibly low quantities that most people will never have a chance of getting their hands on, nice

Can confirm LRG has bad customer service. NEVER place an order with multiple items, they won't ship until you ask where your stuff is. I've experienced this twice. On the order page, everything said "Ready" and in warehouse, both times I waited a month or so then finally contacted them and they shipped a day later. So apparently they have no system to notify them when all items are ready and they need to ship. Fairly mind-boggling. Or maybe they do it on purpose to encourage you to place an order per item? They do have the annoying policy where they won't ship until everything in the order is ready. So basically only order one item at a time. Another annoying thing is they just throw in the collector cards in the box, no card protectors or anything. They're just rubbing against the inside of the cardboard shipping box. I can confirm that I have gotten all my games, so they're not trash or scammers, they just have some annoying policies and practices.

One item I was disappointed with was the comic book reproduction that came with the doom collectors edition. It wasn't normal comic size and it looks like it was printed on an inkjet printer.

Dear God how i wished you'd messaged me before you put this video out XD Aaero: Put up the price by an extra $5 literally the moment it went up for sale, neglected to mention it to anyone. Turns out they'd put the price up because they decided last minute that they were going to put the DLC on the disc after a number of people complained. Lawbreakers: An online only title, where the small print mentioned that it had offline functionality but neglected to mention that only the tutorial was available to play offline. By the time people received the physical copies of the game, the servers were closed, so had essentially sold people a shiny coaster. Curse of Money Island Collection: The boxes have been misprinted, and it also turns out that a number of discs and USB sticks with the game on it, cannot be loaded, or are simply missing files entirely. Asterbreed: Some discs were misprinted, and didn't have any data on them. You wouldn't know this unless you opened your game and tested, so plenty of people either bough them from LRG with no data on the disc, or bought them sealed from scalpers only to find there was no data on the disc. Metronomicon: Personally suffered from this one myself. Bought the physical game and OST bundle, and received an empty box with the title of the game slapped on the label. Literally, an empty box. Multiple people complained about the same issue, only to find out LRG had started taking them out of peoples hold orders (when hold orders were still a thing) so they could get the single orders out to people faster, and had to resort to buying copies from scalpers on eBay to give to the people they'd sold them to in the first place. One Step From Eden: The game was available to buy as a physical Japanese copy, that had every language on it including English...... Right up until LRG got ahold of it to publish it for the US, then mysteriously, and had NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM lolololol, the Jap version announces that it no longer has English on it, just every other language. Crossing Souls and Swords of Ditto: Printed the wrong covers on the manuals, but made sure to slap that extra $5 on the price tag for the privilage of having a manual in the box. Between misprints, missing data, missing packages, scalpers, personally being called a prick by Douglas Bogart (which i maintain is a badge of honour these days), there's plenty more where this came from XD LRG used to have forums, and oh boy if you could see some of the screenshots from that bad boy, i think you'd be little more than shocked XD Shall we also go into the topic of LRG's doxxing of another CEO of a different competitor company?...... Nah, that'd go too far right?.....right? ;)

I think my favorite part about this video is during the customer support chapter, all the background footage is just a compilation of norman reedus eating shit and dropping all his stuff. Very fitting given the part about the damaged product in shipping

I have always thought about Limited Run Games as a cash grab that prays on people's fear of FOMO with limited editions, special editions and collectibles made in pitiful numbers to incentivize people spending mad cash but it's even worse lmao, imagine having "partners" who re-sell for even more profit. Your research was extremely well done, good job mate!

the whole "independently operated store inside another store" is actually a real and not hypothetical thing. in the UK, when a bunch of GAME (a gaming store) shops got closed, the guy that owned them literally just put them in Sports Direct (sporting goods stores) shops and called it a day. literally just a gaming store surrounded by soccer balls and running shoes that NOBODY would care to access over a regular gaming store

For a company that strive on "preserving" games, they sure give plenty of reasons why people should pirate their products.

I was personally attacked when you went into Shantae. I have all of the skateboards, all of the collector's editions across consoles, all of the standard editions across consoles, the slip covers, and at the time of this comment, I am awaiting the statue for my acrylics to be slotted into. Also at the time of commenting, less than 24 hours remain until Limited Run puts Shantae and the Pirate's Curse collector's edition for 3DS up for sale. It's some bullshit because there already is a physical 3DS copy (which I have). So 2+ years later, nothing's changed, though they did just barely roll out 'ship when ready' for mix and match orders. What's even MORE bullshit is that I'm feeling the strain to keep my collection complete and participate in the sale. I definitely have that lizard brain and I HATE it. Thankfully I only invest in Shantae, but holy fuck, do they have me. I am the problem and I've wasted a lot of money lol. We'll see how this comment ages

Double checked this video when I found out some of their CD titles were "burnt" and not pressed

Unfortunately, I've sort of found out over the years that if something is sold as limited or collectors edition, it's not worth it and is often just padded out with low quality crap. This is not exclusive to the video games sector. Trying to force scarcity to drive up prices on the secondary market rather than letting the market police itself is fake at best and leads to corruption at worst.

I often find myself compulsively collecting things I don't really enjoy, only to later regret it or end up with a bunch of plastic junk sitting around collecting dust. FOMO is a brutally manipulative marketing tactic, I see it a lot in board game campaigns on Kickstarter, also. Hope you continue making videos of this quality. Excellent work.

You might as well make an update video because now, they allegedly use "CD-R" discs to burn the rom of the game. Instead of using Pressed Discs used by company, they used cheap discs that will rot away in few years time. Not only that, the console won't be able to run these "fake" discs but yet, they're charging full price for their consumers?! VERY SCUMMY. now you just wonder if they do the same thing for all of their previous releases.

I love psysichal copies and really dislike digital only games but I rather go digital than be exploited by a company like this

The current "game collectors" rabbit hole on KZfaq keeps getting more and more interesting!

I've always seen LRG as doing nothing other than enabling scalpers, I hate to see when a game I would like is artificially limited to 1 vendor, with controlled amount of copies, as someone outside the US, I simply just skip anything over there, even if it is something I want. Pretty sure if they had the opportunity, they'd do a penguin blackmarket, as well.

This is not the first time I have seen Metal Jesus Rocks involved in price manipulation. For years that was a claim about him and his friend Kensey, as he would highlight a "gem" that she would conveniently have stock in at her store. I have also seen people aggravated that he will take a lesser known game and hype it up bigly, and then the prices go through the roof. Interestingly, since around this video, he has drastically reduced his video output, I havent seen Kensey anymore, and he doesnt really highlighy games.

Watched this 4 months ago. And now they're popping up again by firing someone for guilt by association. In America, we have freedom of speech and freedom of association. They violate that principle.

I absolutely despise LRG. You wouldn’t guess it, given I’ve spent close to 2k with them. Yet out of all that money, I only have 3 physical games in my possession. Their business practices are shady, their release dates are not even suggestions at this point (some releases taking more than a year) and the most frustrating part, is that some games are only available via LRG, making it impossible to go anywhere else… I hate them.

This has been interesting, to say the least. I've been on a binge on LRG releases this whole year. I'm going to be more mindful of their practices now. Thanks for doing the research and sharing.

Oh man. You showed Night Trap. I really wanted that one, but when they were a) sold out in minutes and b) tons showed up on ebay almost immediately, I noped out from LRG permanently. EDIT: LOL at the Death Stranding montage when discussing shipping.

I use to work for a collectable company. All these things are common practices Selling the same thing renumbering them with multiple same numbers. Giving the elution that its rare.

Wow this is crazy. I've only purchased 4 or 5 LRG titles and been lucky so far. No issues yet. I don't hoard or resell. I just purchase what I love in physical format. Thanks for the warning though.

Others may have said it, but you missed the fact they do not let people cancel their orders. Would be much harder to take your time in getting product out if people could take their money back if they failed to meet delivery windows.

Anybody else here after they fired that employee because her cyberstalker, the bronycon founder, said they were mad she was looking forward to the new Harry Potter game?

The collectible market has essentially destroyed the joy of being a kid. If I had known that my Star Wars, GI Joes, and Transformers toys would be worth thousands of dollars, maybe I wouldn't have played with them. The scummy nature of creating false scarcity is only going to get worse.

Excellent video. I once ordered two games from LRG back in 2016 and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. The games arrived with broken cases and destroyed covers. I had to fight for six months to get replacement covers shipped to me. LRG doesn't care about game preservation as you said, they only want money. Why else would they make a physical run for Lawbreakers? An online multiplayer game that requires an internet connection, but no longer works since the servers have been turned off. Look at Blaster Master Zero, they released all three games as separate SKUs. While Asia got all three games on a single disc with brand new voice acting that was missing from the LRG releases. With Shantae, why do they have to be five separate releases? You could easily fit all 5 games on a single PS5 disc. Instead you have to check the site on a regular basis. Buy each game individually and pay separate shipping for each game (which really adds up if you live outside the USA).

TBH, if a company refuses to give me a refund for something that’s entirely their fault, they don’t need to ban me; I won’t be buying from them ever again anyways.

This whole video I was like “they didn’t do a bad job on anything I got from them” then you talked the tribute games collection and I stared at it on my shelf.

I’m just coming to see this video after Minute run announced that they’re selling “” physical 3DO games, but there just put on super cheap CD ROM discs and not unpressed discs that won’t even work on original hardware. What’s even the point, especially because they’re selling them for like 60 bucks? It’s insane.

I'm in this limited run games collector's group (that is also the name of it) and the amount of people that haven't watched this video and are calling it dumb is honestly annoying tbh. The amount of collectors that spent thousands of dollars to LRG and claim to not be bias with their feelings towards this video is astonishing.

Thank you for making me aware of this. LRG was one of the main sources for physical copies I was considering down the line as physical preservation is very big with me.

This aged well.

adding to this, limited run recently made a steam developer account and it really shows that premium pricing does not equal premium production cost. unlike most collections, LRG keeps references to both of its steam games' emulation practices wholly unencrypted, even with references to emulation for games from consoles they haven't even put on steam yet and the roms themselves readily available for people to copy-paste or replace with other roms as they see fit. oh, and did i mention that these roms remove all references to former publishers or even what year the games came out? for reference, these edits are so shoddy that i could recreate the new roms entirely in about five minutes with tile layer pro. if that's not bad enough, these games have a newly added map feature, which is literally just images from vgmaps with the credit information cropped out. whilst they would not be the first to get caught doing, these particular maps have additional details, by which i mean an image-based strategy guide to the entire fucking game.

You'll catch a lot of flack from fans, but I fell out with them some time ago. Initially I bought from them because I bought into the preservation nonsense, plus I have that collector gene. Once it became clear that they were stretching the truth about preservation, and they were going to release WAY more volume than I wanted to collect... I was out, mostly. I'll still grab Shantae games, shooting games (more M2 Shot Triggers please!).. basically stuff I'd buy regardless of who published it. There was also that time that they double-shipped an entire order, then threatened to charge me for them if I didn't return them at MY expense. And after I brought it to their attention by requesting a shipping label, which they did finally provide after 5 weeks or so.

I although thought it was strange how everyone seemed to love it, since I always hated these guys because of the way they produce games. The whole “Limited Run” thing was always a sales tactic, was clearly done to trick people into buying stuff for ridiculous prices. I like the idea of physical releases of games that wouldn’t otherwise get it, but usually LRG isn’t producing a physical run of an important game no one can afford, they’re picking up the rights to games that sometimes would’ve got physical releases, and then selling a few copies to people who preorder, leaving everyone who missed that preorder time, giving them no option other than to buy them on eBay for a ridiculous price. It seemed like in the early days of my exposure to them, they generally were trying to get games that would never get physical releases on disc to be preserved, or at least their business wasn’t anywhere near as scummy, but it feels so sneaky and toxic nowadays and I can’t stand it. If they really wanted to preserve digital only games, they wouldn’t do a $30 release of a 1 cent game, they would make a massive compilation of a ton of them and release that on cartridge. It’s all done for profit and to rip people off.

LRG has accidentally sent me an extra copy of my orders 3 times. One of which was them messing up my order and sending me a regular copy of bloodstained: Curse of the moon 2. It had been so long since I preordered it, I completely forgot I ordered the collectors edition. A week later, I got my collectors edition, to my surprise. The other two extras is Shiren the wanderer (I only ordered the regular version of this one), and the collectors edition of The king of Fighters 2002: unlimited match (so I have 2 collectors editions). The fact that this happened 3 times and this was when I was slowing down my purchases from them speaks to how disorganized they are on keeping track of their orders.

This video continues to be proven right, such a god awful company.

Worst part of being into niche genres like shmups is knowing that physical releases of the games you want will inevitably be scooped up by these limited publishers

I was gutted when I found out I missed the No More Heroes switch physical copies, then I found out that Asia received a physical release, with English language included, and the Switch is region free 🤩. Check your options people.

I didn’t have to know all this about Limited Run to know that they aren’t really about true preservation. When I started seeing games launch incomplete it was an immediate red flag. When I saw how truly LIMITED their games were printed it was an immediate red flag. When I saw their games being sold for way too much on eBay I knew it was a scam. I hope a company can learn from their mistakes and enter the market for the next Switch. I think LGR also cannibalized a smaller portion of the market that would have had developers push for publishing their games through a more established/less predatory company or to even self publish. They basically have a duopoly with Super Rare. Would be better if Limited Run could change their ways but will see if they are still around in 5 years and if so what their business looks like. I doubt it will change and you are probably right about the whales who make up the majority of their sales.

I bought from LRG exactly once. It was for the PC big box for Romero's Sigil. We were told it was limited and once it was done it was done. It got delayed again and again and again with no news. Date after date blew by for *only* 3-4 months with radio silence. What little we did get was dripfed via Romero who had to hassle them to get anything out of them. Still, it finally arrived. A few months later the big box showed up on Romero's store, only this time you could get it signed, basically destroying the value of what was marketed as a collector's item.

LRG just opened a physical location in NC. It's only opened on weekends and typically has a line when they open in the morning. I went the first 3 weekends to pick up some odds and ends. Each time there were several customers buying literal stacks of collectors editions that they would pile along the wall by the registers adding to their stacks while looking up resale prices on their phones. There were more than a few customers walking around with binders of info that they were cross referencing with their stack of product. I don't make a habit of eaves dropping, but at least a couple of people were on their phones securing resales as they were shopping. One guy dropped about 4k in one sale and I believe (wasn't my business so I was only half paying attention) he bought as many collectors editions of a single game as he could carry. Another was bragging that he makes at least 20 bucks reselling each game he buys. I can confidently say there are alot of proffesional resellers who benefit from LRG. I can't say whether LRG cares or not, but it was sort of blatant I can't imagine they didn't know what was going on. This is just my personal observation for anyone curious. I'm not making any definitive accusations. There are some people buying stacks of games who legitimatly want to own several copies of a game. High five to them. However, the ones with binders running around making deals like they were on wall street were a little...sus. lol.

I was manufacturing and releasing a product when they announced they'd be releasing a competing product. I immediately reached out to Josh to see if we could work together as to not flood the market, maybe even work together to get costs down. He was "unprofessional". He publicly attacked my product to the media and on his forums. Even going as far as posting a negative review on my product on Amazon, something you're not supposed to do as a seller. Amazon eventually removed it and I believe gave him a warning. Their product was advertised as premium and they charged almost double what I charge (when you factor in they charge their customers shipping costs). Their product was identical. And because they couldn't compete on price they no longer sell theirs. To this day when looking at the reviews on my product you can sometimes guess who the LRG fans are. The cult is real.

"All game preservationists are scammers at the end of the day." And then comes Jirard "The Completionist" Khalil to prove his point.

Commenting to say that LRG has dug their grave even further by firing an employee for who they follow on Twitter just a few days ago. Now every post they've made since is swamped by hundreds of comments about nothing but disdain for them. It's beautiful and well deserved.

Brilliant in-depth video. As someone who’s been aware of certain shadiness for a while now, there’s still somethings in here I wasn’t aware of. Although I think the “It’s not about the Shiren situation” was true, it was about me telling people to be aware of the One Step From Eden situation.

Thank you for making this video. When I was in highschool I fell for this and bought a few games from them. The first game had the disc dislodged in the box and the second took almost 2 years to arrive. I knew this was feeding off FOMO. I knew something felt icky about this company. Thanks.for spreading awareness about their practices.

YEAH, I love collecting old games and limit myself to things that have meaning to me. I see people going NUTS over limited run stuff and graded games (grading has literally always been a scam for every collectible) and that's just not fun!

Something that really bothers me, and you touched on, is that Metal Jesus promotes them a lot. He's gotten to be pretty scummy as well. I've watched hum for years and used to appreciate his info. Unfortunately he seems to have sold out. He's the ONLY one on KZfaq that speaks highly of them. Everyone else I've seen on KZfaq or spoken too has the same story, terrible customer service and zero give-a-damn about there customers. This company seems to be about the most greedy company you could deal with. It's a shame that Way Forward works with them because I love their work. Hopefully they separate themselves soon. I would hate to never have another Way Forward game. Great video man. I hope people take warning.

I just remembered that LRG had a end of year sale where you could buy up a copy of a game that was released in the past for a set price. The catch? You had no indication of what you were going to get. You could only choose the console, and the game itself was completely up to them. And they even had the gall to have some games be less likely to be given out than others, down to the percentage point. This was kind of the biggest indication that this business was extremely sketchy. It would have been easier to just relist the surplus games, but they felt that it was best to do it in a way that might very likely end up with you getting something you already have, or just don't want. It's a very bad idea, and it's kind of emblematic of everything wrong with the company. Thanks for the very well done video, I'll be sure to stop supporting them.

To throw my two cents in there, I actually sort of know a couple of the lrg guys, mainly through a couple of friends. Met them a few times. They are decent marketers and very good at playing the business game, which is how they secure so many titles. They have a TON of really good contacts and know how to work the industry. I’ve heard some really despicable off the record comments, specifically about how they cheap on printing stuff and how gullible collectors are. Just my two cents take it or leave it.

Watching this way after it released, and holy shit, this is so on point with several past shopping experiences and some general discomforts that I have with the company. I watched the whole video; it has aged super well and needs to be spread around more. Extremely well done here!

Bought a game from them over a year ago, forgot about it because I only buy from them maybe 1-3 times a year, moved during that period, they sent the game without any email or warning, and it was is mailing limbo for three months. Even kickstarter projects several years late at least have the decency to contact me if their product shipping soon so they can ask for updated shipping details. No idea why a "more established" company can't.

This bird king situation is beyond questionable...wow

This is such a great deep dive. As you say, nothing illegal but just good old fashioned shitty business practices. I’ve never liked them and will now actively avoid them.

Well, they may have reached a new low this week, selling CD-R burned games in the D limited edition.

seeing tommy talarico being mentioned a year before hbomb's video feels like when you meet that one cousin that you didnt think you ever saw before but turns out you had a playdate with when you were like 6

So this is kinda embarrassing to admit but when I first discovered LRG I felt the FOMO need to buy as many games as I could just because I was financially stable at the time, years later I really regret most of those purchases

for a company that cares so much about game preservation, they sure do make their physical runs limited :/

I have never heard of this company until now. It just seems like a business capitalizing on collectors. Everyone knows that pirating, and online communities are what preserves digital media.

I'm gonna tell you right now, ANY association with Tommy Tallarico is a very, very bad sign for a business.

I got a salty taste in my mouth EARLY on with LRG. When packages would show up damaged. And they would act like I was the bad guy for complaining about damaged purchases and want an exchange. Everyone was saying how great they were then. I am glad the public has finally figured out they are a money grab. And a pretty scummy one at that. It took the public a long time to seem to catch on though. I suspect LRG will have to make some changes somewhere down the road. Or they will start to see a major hit to their sales. You can only screw the pooch so long before the public doesn’t want to give you their hard earned money anymore. And a full blown recession is all but inevitable pretty quickly here. Times are gonna get even tougher than right now. And these game purchases are not gonna come before food, rent and transportation…

My primary exposure to Limited Run Games was how they handled the Jak and Daxter games. Boy it was painful.

I wish I saw this a month before I did back in 2021. I pre-ordered Star Wars: TFU back in late-summer 2021. It's now Jan. 2024 and there's been a whole 2 emails about updates on the process of development for this, I uh. Yeah. Do your research before purchasing kids, otherwise you'll be going on year 2.5 still waiting for a product.

The events of today should add more to your point.

im a LRG customer, just a casual collector, not an addict and def not a scalper (fk scalpers), ... this video definitely hit home for me, im pretty tired of the scummy nature of this hobby/business, it gets real old.... very well made video, you earned a subscriber in me, keep it up..

I just wanted to say thank you for this video and the information in it. I've been fighting with myself to stop buying and it's become a problem for some time. I keep saying that's it. No more. And then before I even get the products I purchased I'm already infatuated with another and I'm buying that one as well and it consumes my mind with frustration and it hurts. I appreciate the list of reasons that you have explaining why a person like me would do this. Anyway, I hope this helps me. I'll try to send this video to my friends as well.

Within literal hours of sale closing for the Shantae GBC collector's pack, it popped up for upwards of triple the price on ebay. I got lucky to even be able to put money toward a copy at all, since it was marked as sold out almost immediately.

It doesnt make sense to me that they want to preserve digital games and yet they sell very limited and expensive physical copies-

The death stranding clips are anxiety inducing XD, for many reasons. I like to think youre offering a visual representation of the LRG shipping process.

I only wanted to buy Scott Pilgrim physically because the game was already delisted once. It'll most likely be delisted again and I don't wanna go through emulation or piracy like I already was to play it if I either lose my account or the Eshop closes or something like that. I ordered the Special Edition because it was my birthday and I felt like treating myself with a semi-neat collector's piece. Ordered it on my birthday, took about 6 months to arrive. Which is fair. Though the account I ordered it from said I had no pending orders and I never got a tracking number, it eventually arrived right around the time I was looking into the issues. And what I got was... disappointing. The box it came in was not molded to fit the Switch case, instead it had 2 plastic bars holding it together that fell out as soon as I opened the box. The contents inside were okay, but they were also all stuffed below the switch case instead of in a manual holder on the side, which didn't exist and would've made sense. And the "freebie" concert ticket? shoved into the game case with nothing holding it. And of course finally playing the game, I found out Knives Chau was only unlockable via connecting to a Ubisoft Connect account, which is online only content. If I lose my save and the servers shut down, Knives is no longer playable. Good game preservation here. Sure, Knives is a character in an otherwise complete game, but it's the little things that irritate me the most. And after watching this video, the only real preservation way at this point, is piracy. I'd be better off playing the game on my hacked PS3 with all the DLC installed on my console for free then buying the physical cartridge cause at least then I know I can play the game in its entirety offline. I'll probably not be supporting Limited Run from now on.

This video has officially aged like the finest of wines. 🍷

game collecting used to be such a fun hobby before it became an investment instead of just a game. I used to love physical collecting so much, now I can't stand it because it has been ruined by all the people getting into it just to make money

As always I’m blown away by the level of detail in your videos! This was a great watch, especially since I’m always tempted by these kind of things myself, you’ve helped me to find more willpower!

As someone who's an impulse buyer when it comes to series they're really attached to and want things in their room to show for it, it was a really hard decision not to get the collector's edition Scott Pilgrim game at the time but now looking back months later I'm glad I didn't give in lol

I bought two things from them. My Scott Pilgrim game spent two years unsent. My friend received his months before i cancelled my order but was still waiting on the record. LRG told me they were waiting for the record to send me the game. Months went by and i finally cancelled. I ordered Shredders Revenge and moved months later. I told them to update my address and they said they updated my order. More months go by and they sent it to my old apartment. Never getting anything from them ever again

Metal Jesus rocks is one of the main reason Videogame prices are through the roof, soon as he says a game is rare it skyrockets in price

I did get caught by them with Streets of Rage 4 (standard edition, not the big box in the video), but a decent chunk of the blame there does rest with publisher there for initially not realising how strong the demand would be for physical copies, though they at least rectified afterwards. They inundate me with e-mails nowadays, and I'm kinda shocked how many different lines they have for what should be a small niche of a niche. (Also, your Death Stranding footage is hilarious. I think I had one incident in 100 hours as funny as your gameplay. :) )

If they cared about game preservation you'd think they would sell more copies of their games

Don't think I have ever bought anything from them. And now never will.

This is so relevant right now.

This only makes me appreciate IndieBox's business model even more. They fall into similar trappings with the limited release model, but all of their releases were reasonably priced and were complete packages: every single game included a DRM free copy as well as a digital copy. They still even have a decent amount of back stock available for purchase to this day. You could tell that IndieBox at least had genuine love for the games they published, and it's a damn shame seeing companies like LRG bleed collector's dry with all this FOMO inducing garbage instead of paying homage and respect to these games and their developers.

I just want to state that the Customer Service section was spiritually debilitating because of those Death Stranding delivery fails.

I ordered the Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic collectors edition when it came out for the switch. One of my favorite games of all time, and i just started making enough money to buy myself something cool. I dont remember the exact dates, but it was supposed to take around half a year to ship. A year and a half later, with 1 singular email update I got the game. I wont lie, the product is nice and well made. But the orginal "vibroblade letter opener" that was advertised, was changed to a plastic and metal display piece with no explination. A year and a half wait and a changed product with 0 compensation.

"I can sell it later for more" is the biggest trap I see people have, i've had that problem too. What saved me was when I had things fall over in the middle of the night and I told myself I need to get rid of things.

It's quite timely how this popped up on my feed. I'm, admittedly, someone who buys from LRG every now and then. I'll also admit that I do so because it was only fairly recently that I finally got purchasing power to build a library for games, something I've always dreamed of when I was kid (but I'm from the third world, so I was always late with consoles and I only got pirated versions of games from PS1 to PS2). Recently, I've been frustrated with the fact that the stuff they put out (not just them, even iam8bit, Special Reserve, etc.) are limited, all the more since they seem to want to "preserve" all these games. I really wish everyone could easily get these games, whether they prefer digital or physical, without worrying about things going out of print or disappearing from Steam, Epic, etc. I've been practicing being mindful about my purchases from them and from other websites, and I ask myself, do these games really interest me? If they do, then I will only order the standard versions, never the collector's editions of what are already technically collector's editions, and I will always make sure to check the "fine print" if they're clear on whether or not there's an actual cartridge or just a digital code. Your video all the more makes me want to be careful. This was very enlightening, especially about the scummy things you pointed out. So thank you so much!

Your channel is a hidden gem wish youtube would push more channels like this keep up the work!

I will say, security has become a really good reason to collect the games you enjoy. Before watching this I ordered my first order with limited run games, for persona 3 portable and persona 4 golden (switch). I only wanted the standard edition, but now I fear what stage they will arrive in. I am crossing my fingers, because I still want to own a physical version, but after all this information, I don't know if I would be comfortable with attempting to order from them again. I miss the time where all companies made physical versions of their game, but in the end, it is because we did not buy enough of them that we are here now.

I'm just a retro game collector, but I still feel bad for people who get practicly scammed by the greed of these companies like Limited Run. Not cool.