PositiveGamer
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I noticed too. But it is still there through featured products.
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Limited Run Games |OT2| Sweet XOXO for Digital to Physical Media
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I noticed too. But it is still there through featured products.
PSFan
Member
Nope. I was logged in watching the timer count down for 20 minutes before it went live. It sold out while I was in the checkout process. So fuck that defense.
It's on the product page
Region free Night Trap physical disc for the PlayStation 4 featuring a full-color manual, large fold-out poster, and reversible cover art.
Night Trap cassette tape featuring the infamous Night Trap theme song.
A 4-inch custom embroidered Special Control Attack Team patch on black ballistic fiber.
An individually numbered shrink-wrapped box specially tooled and tailored to be a throwback to the original red box Sega CD release of Night Trap.
I play them and I will be opening the shit out of my Night Trap CE.
Guess I missed it, thank you!
salaciousdrift
Member
I have ten of these things. I'm hardly the LRG Hate Force. I am a card carrying member of the LRG Disappointment Squad man. Disappointment Squad is different than Hate Force! Admittedly Defense Force, Hate Force, Disappointment Squad and Shameless Profiteers should all get t-shirts. It would make us easier to identify and they probably wouldn't sell out in 14 seconds.
AlexFlame116
Member
Cassette, 4 inch patch and the box. Not much really.
How's your internet speed/hard wired to PC?
Yeah sorry didn't mean to make it seem like I was mocking you. More just amazed that they would try it once on a game because they were basically forced by the dev to and then using that as a justification even though something like that wouldn't happen with another game because they could just wait until it was completely approved and ready for a manufacturing order to be placed.
Anyway for the people that missed these I wouldn't be surprised if the Night Trap folks do another run with someone else. Clearly there is demand beyond just LRG collectors.
MaverickHunterX
Member
Not trying to be a dick but for all the other releases they've included them under the games tab. Why change it now?
MomoPufflet
Member
Amazon is terrible for speed unless every other way is worse. There were at least 3 pages to load and click through.
pete_clarf
Member
I buy most of the games they do digitally and if I really like the game, I'll buy the physical edition to have on the shelf. For a while, I was buying every Vita game, but stopped. The only one I've opened is Astebreed because the disc was rattling around inside.
Marty Chinn
Member
LRG keeps tweeting that people can add the game to their cart before it's time. How is this possible?
Sounds about the same with Paypal.
*Loading screen*
(Sign in screen if not pre-loaded)
*Which account/card would you like?*
*Please re-enter your phone number*
*Is this correct? Please confirm*
MrFortyFive
Member
Prior to Wonderboy and Night Trap, I had only bought a few, but I have and do intend to play everything I've bought. I don't have any desire to buy things only to have them sit on a shelf. To each their own, but I have no doubt that even open and played, these games should at the very least maintain enough value to cover what I paid for them if I ever decide to sell.
Even if they don't, I get enjoyment out of it. No loss there.
What's the turnaround time from LRG placing an order for the quantity they want to them actually getting the copies?
Marty Chinn
Member
Nah, Amazon isn't that bad. Amazon is just put in your password and then go through to select address, shipping, and payment like a normal order. The only gotcha is you have to go through that normally and then when you get to payment, you select Amazon and then you have to repeat the first two steps that you already went through.
It's random, and you won't know till you open to see if you got the blue box, or the rare yellow variant.
mattysaurus
Member
I buy games to play. I pay the premium because I prefer physical copies, not because I want something to stick on my shelf.
DaBargainHunta
Member
I play them. I'll never understand the "keep it sealed" mentality. But hey, no judgment here - different strokes for different folks and all that - I just don't get it personally.
I also only buy the games I want. I was late to the LRG party, so no hope of me having a complete collection anyway - and I wouldn't have gone down that road regardless.
PayPal is about the same as far as number of pages to click through. The only "speed" issue I ever have is when I get that "waiting in line" screen - and also when I have to input my phone number every single time. (Please fix this, LRG!)
Lazlo Woodbine
Member
Always play them. Never understood the 'keep it sealed' mentality.
I think it's partly to do with a perspective thing...ever since I was diagnosed with cancer I reigned in the limited collecting I was doing because I had the not-so-unique epiphany that, what's the point of spending your loose change amassing mountains of plastic to just gather dust.
It's a nerds Schrodinger's Cat. Or the great 'Stinky Pete's Dilemma' (circa Toy Story II). I stick to picking up what I want to play/support (Dragon Trap III was the first game I ever played for example so I knew I wanted a copy of the new CE).
Apparently it varies since lately they have been having to hold orders because Sony's factories are backed up. At first they would only sale games when they were in their office but apparently they decided not to worry about that anymore.
Right right, but I mean, it includes the PS4-style box inside the Red CE box, yeah? It's not a jewel case or something different?
I ask because I would like to remove it from the CE box, keep the CE box elsewhere, and add the PS4 box to my LRG library
Alternatively, I can try to get a Regular Edition this afternoon.
I open and play them all, found lots of gems by buying LRG releases.
LQX
Member
Yep, the CE order page disappeared right before it was time to go up but this has happened previously so I knew to just refresh. Thing is it never showed up again on the main page.
Well that sucks as it would save both me and LRG money and time. Thanks for the replies.
Well that sucks as it would save both me and LRG money and time. Thanks for the replies.
Right right, but I mean, it includes the PS4-style box inside the Red CE box, yeah? It's not a jewel case or something different?
I ask because I would like to remove it from the CE box, keep the CE box elsewhere, and add the PS4 box to my LRG library
Alternatively, I can try to get a Regular Edition this afternoon.
Yeah it's going to be the same thing as the standard copies inside.
I believe all ce's get automatically sent in a box.
Neo-Saiyan
Member
This used to annoy the hell out of me when I wanted to keep a game sealed until I came across this video on LR's website.
I think Im fucking done with this company.
I've been a eager LRG supporter from Day 1, always wake up early to grab the 7 AM orders and always wait for the timer to end and get my order, but now every game since mid june/july has been missed. I cant order while Im at work when the second batch hits and I've always just gotten the first batch.
This new system they have seems to encourage only scalpers and get the games out as fast as possible.
This latest stunt with the CE's not appearing until some random ass time after the timer stopped was my last straw....fucking christ this is some ridiculous garbage.
I've been a eager LRG supporter from Day 1, always wake up early to grab the 7 AM orders and always wait for the timer to end and get my order, but now every game since mid june/july has been missed. I cant order while Im at work when the second batch hits and I've always just gotten the first batch.
This new system they have seems to encourage only scalpers and get the games out as fast as possible.
This latest stunt with the CE's not appearing until some random ass time after the timer stopped was my last straw....fucking christ this is some ridiculous garbage.
PSFan
Member
Yeah for me too. Paypal wasn't an issue speedwise. Again, don't see why they have you 'wait in line' yet still a product is able to be removed while you are checking out.
That sounds like the equivalent of standing in the checkout line at Walmart with a Switch in your cart and someone just comes along and takes it out of there and pays for it at a different line. Online retailers should give you a one minute window or something before an item can be removed from your cart.
That would be fantastic, my blood pressure just went down a few ticks, thanks.
And obviously, the vinyl won't ship in a bubble wrap, so I think I'm good now.
Geeze rough stuff on Twitter... as usual, more pissed people and LRG had to step away for a few hours. How stressful stuff must be as things are now :/
I enjoy how people are mocking them as "running away from customers". What should they do, just "get back here and listen to us yell at you some more!" At the end of the day, they get it, and can only take so much pissed off Internet people yelling at them. Who wants to be a punching bag?
Things will definitely need to evolve over time, yes, but it's a slow growth to this infant company, that has already exploded in just over a year's time. And... there are a lot of internet people that don't know how business are run and assume A LOT of things. That bugs me. Do they need to try and make changes to keep up with the insane demand? Absolutely. But it takes time, and these games still need to release...
I enjoy how people are mocking them as "running away from customers". What should they do, just "get back here and listen to us yell at you some more!" At the end of the day, they get it, and can only take so much pissed off Internet people yelling at them. Who wants to be a punching bag?
Things will definitely need to evolve over time, yes, but it's a slow growth to this infant company, that has already exploded in just over a year's time. And... there are a lot of internet people that don't know how business are run and assume A LOT of things. That bugs me. Do they need to try and make changes to keep up with the insane demand? Absolutely. But it takes time, and these games still need to release...
Apparently that had to do with people already having the item in the cart before they opened orders. They really just need to get a new shopping platform a lot of their issues seemed based around Shopify.
That would be fantastic, my blood pressure just went down a few ticks, thanks.
And obviously, the vinyl won't ship in a bubble wrap, so I think I'm good now.
Checked their twitter to make sure here is the link. Link
Yeah, I understand that they don't want people adding something to cart and then sitting on it for hours or days, but they could at least give people a five-minute window once it's in their cart to check out before removing it.
I think that we can ALL agree that Shopify just plain sucks.
Jesus Carbomb
From Water into Guinness
You won't be hearing from the collectors that keep their stuff sealed for resale value.
Sell right away for profit = scalper
Sell three years from now for profit = collector
To be fair that wasn't a LRG decision that was Shopify decision.
6pm EDT.
6PM EST as usual.
Yeah I know.
I dont keep any of my games shrink wrapped, Not even for any collectors or LE's
I play them, all of them and I've got a ton of rare games that people think should be still in the wrapping. I've got them all my Vita or PS4 ready to go at any time as well. I play them all when I can.
But I've already missed out on the last six vita games and last four PS4 games that I've been actually wanting because of this terrible "waiting in checkout" system.
Every fucking release because when I click buy after the timer hits 0, im in a checkout only for the loading screen to tell me that the game is already fucking gone.
ExitPlanetDust
Member
After
Something I have started doing with games and blu-rays discs is keeping them sealed until I am about to play/watch them.
I never buy anything with the intent to sell it, but if a year goes by and I decide that I am not going to play that copy of Diablo III I bought after all, well... sealed gets me more money if I end up selling it.
We keep hearing changes aren't made because some customers would be unhappy.
What do we have now, if not masses of unhappy customers...?
By the way, I think you should drop the Appeals to Accomplishment. It's a cookie-cutter logical fallacy, and you don't need it. Address the points if you'd like, not "They run a business and you don't".
That said, no one deserves the abuse LRG are getting just for not releasing games exactly the way they like. On one hand, you have mega-fans that just want the games, and become rabid when they can't get it. On the other, you have scalpers whose literal livelihoods depend on keeping everything scarce and chaotic.
Anyways, it's the last I'll address of this today, lest I get shouted down once again by half the thread.