Limited Run Games has been releasing new physical releases of classic games for a while, but there has been criticism building for a while over various practices. The newest issue, however, may be a deal breaker for some.
Limited Run Games is being accused of charging a premium for limited releases, for which they are allegedly just burning CD-Rs for some of the disc based titles and selling them at an exorbitant price.
The company has allegedly been doing this with 3DO re-releases, with the games not working on actual hardware.
Todd Gill mentioned this on Twitter/X, which you can see here below
lol @LimitedRunGames is shipping out 3DO games on CDR (rather than pressed discs) and the best part: they won’t even work on real hardware. pic.twitter.com/WRJDd6JW94
— Todd Gill – Retro Frog (@ToddsNerdCave) May 1, 2024
Voultar then commented on the matter, noting that LRG can charge over 60 USD for some of these games, yet they are producing a low quality product allegedly.
I know I talk about a lot of things on here and people might consider this "drama", but please just hear me out and read until the end. This company is problematic in more ways than one and it's becoming exhausting. @LimitedRunGames charges an absolute premium for their… https://t.co/7pl3XLjD9A pic.twitter.com/klKXpbR5sc
— Voultar (@Voultar) May 1, 2024
Another user then responded revealing that Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties and the Monkey Island Anthology were also CD-R. The latter cost over 200 USD and did not even check that the games could be installed from Discs.
Plumbers Don’t Wear Ties pc edition shipped on DVD-R. And replacement disc for Monkey Island Anthology, a $200 set that they didn’t even check you could correctly install from the discs, was also a DVD-R. I was furious.
— Cory Bev (@bevilacq12) May 1, 2024
LRG needs to address these issues because consumers are not getting the quality they are paying for.
