Limited Run Games (producing physical copies of digital games)

[Aussie2B]

At this point, I don't expect the forum to ever return, and even if it does, a lot of the users probably won't return. I hear ya on losing interest in LRG. It was a lot more fun following them when they had a release now and then, not cranking out a bunch of new stuff basically every week.

[mailman187666]

I know people have heard this a million times on the internet. If you stick to just what you really want and try to curb impulse buying, LRG is a great resource of games.

Also I am not surprised that the forum closed and is still gone. Right towards the end there seemed to still be a good amount of complaining about LRG. One person came on and said something like "I wouldn't even piss on Doug if he was one fire" and said he was a scumbag or something along those lines. Doug came and made a surprise visit to make it known that he read this comment just by replying "wow", and the poster started doing some serious backpedaling on what he had said, saying "Oh thats a common expression in our country, it's not that bad". I wouldn't be surprised if that was the part that made LRG ask themselves "we helped out fans leaving the forums open and here they are slandering me/us." It wasn't long after that exchange that the forum closed. I can't say whether those two events are connected or not, but it does seem pretty coincidental.

[Aussie2B]

I don't know if the forum was purposely pulled down, but with comments like those on there, I'm sure that killed any motivation to put in any work to restore it, if it genuinely went down because of an error. I was going there for information, since I didn't want to keep tabs on a bunch of different social media accounts, but even I was getting turned off by the atmosphere there.

[gbpxl]

LRG: games for people who dont play games

[Aussie2B]

I don't see how that comment makes sense. Everybody who has posted in this topic plays games. I've opened and at least briefly played almost every LRG game I've bought, and I've played several to completion (or otherwise sunk a good amount of time into them, like the Atari Flash Classics compilation).

[gbpxl]

you guys are the exception not the rule. id say a very large percentage of the buyers are shelf collectors. hey to each their own i just see a lot of crossover between LRG buyers and the "sealed" collector community

[Aussie2B]

Between LRG's forum, Twitter, GameFAQs, and elsewhere, I've come across lots of people who open and play LRG's games. The sealed collectors exist, but they also buy mainstream releases, so it's not exclusive to LRG. And there are plenty of retro collectors who buy used, opened games but don't really play them. Even in my case, I buy games with the intention of playing them, but with a big collection and limited gaming time, much of my collection sits on shelves for years and years, even decades, without being played.