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$70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet
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But why would it be pointless or uncalled for? $70 for a rather old game?
Edit: I've been schooled. Is a brand new game with a confusing name. Still $70 for a console game; yikes.
Others have already replied with this info but I’m just spelling it out for anyone who is not familiar like me:
They fucking named the brand new game mk1. Is it a remaster? No. It’s not a remaster. Is it a recreation of mk1? No. It’s an alternate timeline game given the worst name in the history of naming things. It’s genuinely a brand new game.
Holy shit. They really fucked up with that name.
Sometimes I wish I could have a job where companies just say “hey should we make this decision” and I tell them “that’s so fucking stupid no one will actually like that” and get paid well for it.
That’s my dream.
I've had some similar roles before, but more often than not companies just do it anyway, even if you have a lot of data to the contrary. It's stupidly easy for someone in management to push some of this through despite the data, choose an arbitrary metric to define their success, get their bonus, and then bail for another company. Meanwhile, folks left at the company have to then try and fix all of the nonsense. It blows that we value failing forward. I've seen a few decent products just tanked this way.
I mean… we live in the timeline where we had the Xbox One being the third Xbox, and Battlefield 1 not being the first Battlefield.
I would not be surprised if we start seeing “[Game Title] One” for rebooted games.
Its not an old game, MK1 is the latest release. The people getting served this are running it on hardware that was weak last generation. At a certain point you simply cannot push these devices any further. MK1 for Switch was never going to look beautiful, the current gen Switch can't do it. I'm okay with devs making their games available, I mean at least you can play it. Theres a reason a Switch 2 is in the works.
This is a brand new game, they just gave it a confusing name
Because you have the full choice to not buy and support it, if you think the price is unreasonable. It's not a vital need, and nobody's forcing customers to buy it. Housing, food, healthcare, we don't have a choice. Buy or die. A video game? Not so much. The issue is not game publishers overcharging, it's players who moan and whine... AND THEN BUY IT ANYWAY, thus ensuring the publishers will continue the practice
Sure, but are we talking about people who buy the game, or people in general bashing at the price? They're not necessarily the same group.
It's like when Apple announced that $1000 monitor stand. It was laughable. Even if I won't buy one, I bashed it to no end, because it was fun.
That's standard price for new games from EA, greater Microsoft (id, Bethesda, Obsidian, 343, etc), SqEnix, and WB
Which is bullshit. It reminds me of when web email services offered ridiculously small inbox sizes, such as 25MB or 50MB. Then in came Google and offered 1GB, and all of a sudden all those companies found the way to match Google's offering.
But I guess if people are willing to pay for those ridiculous prices, and deal with in-game payments..... shrug.