Am I the only one who thinks those prices are still too high for 25+ year old titles? Don’t get me wrong, absolutely love the games, but this “discount” feels closer to what it should be.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

Square 🤝 Nintendo
Charging 2-3x too much for games you already bought.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Original price of $10 each feels about right. They put work into the graphics, music, and bug fixes. But stripped out all the additional content of later releases.

$18 for one of these games is ludicrous. I would have preferred to just pay for the older version that they removed from the app stores.

[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com 8 points 3 months ago

Absolutely not alone on that. Square Enix's prices on all their old titles are about 50% more than I'm willing to drop on them at any given time.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All 6 games bundled for 30 dollar/euro would be fine.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Am I hallucinating, because there was definitely a bundle that had all 6 remasters that I got... for $50 in 2022 I wanna say? All 6 are in my library and there is no way I spent $25x6 (or whatever the price is, I know FF I and II are lower in price).

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not. There's a bundle but for a collection of 16 bit games from the 1990s, 50 dollars is too much, IMHO.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They aren't though? They're not ports, they're partial rebuilds of the games in Unity with native resolution support, new pixel art, full arrangement of most of the music, and huge QoL and gameplay improvements/modernization.

I'm not a huge fan of SqEnix's money grabbing (see: literally any of their FF gatcha content), but the Pixel remasters are one of the few that are actually worth it...at $50 for the whole bundle. Not $25/ remastered game.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They aren’t though? They’re not ports, they’re partial rebuilds of the games in Unity with native resolution support, new pixel art, full arrangement of most of the music, and huge QoL and gameplay improvements/modernization.

Call them what you want, I recently paid 15 Euro for 62 1990s Capcom games. 30 for 6 Square games would be fine, given the bigger scope.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ok but again, are they ports or did new content go into it? Did a whole new soundtrack and full orchestral recording go into your 60 Capcom games? There IS a labour difference between adding new/upscaling the content vs porting it to new hardware and calling it a day.

Saying "call it what you want" is pretty disrespectful to the people actually working on modernizing these games (I'm one of those people).

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

Ok but again, are they ports or did new content go into it? Did a whole new soundtrack and full orchestral recording go into your 60 Capcom games? There IS a labour difference between adding new/upscaling the content vs porting it to new hardware and calling it a day.

Then give me a bundle without all that crap. Now I'm emulating the games and you get no money on top of what I paid for the SNES originals back in the day. I'd happily pay again for some convenience but not 70 Euro for six 30 years old games.

Saying “call it what you want” is pretty disrespectful to the people actually working on modernizing these games (I’m one of those people).

The cost is very disrespectful to us customers.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I totally agree. I recently bought on sale Final Fantasy 1 for mobile, mostly because I didn't feel like digging out my PlayStation and putting in one of the original remastered disks. To be honest, the load times were pretty long on a kind of it being PS1. But the prices they're asking for for all of these remasters are excessive. Also some of them have 3D instead of pixel sprites; FF4:TAY in particular was ruined that way. You know what I'd like to see; all of the newer Final Fantasy is done in pixel art style. Like from 7 onward. That would be fun.