Your total acceptance and defenses of all the acknowledged (!) disadvantages of the LR salesmodel (limited accessibility, small purchase windows, ebay scalping!) is based on one assumption which doesn't hold up: The LR salesmodel is the only way to get these games to us. If you believe that, then you are ignoring reality.
There is a dozen of publishers out there which prove every month that the normal retail route is not only possible but successful and profitable. We would get these games of LR by other publishers (!), we don't have to hail this company which follows intentionally and explicitly the route 'Buy it now from us or you might pay later a lot more on ebay'. It is a very convenient way for a company at the cost of gamers and collectors to eliminate the uncertainty factor Number One for a business, namely the uncertainty about the final sales numbers. It gives LR a competitive advantage over their competitors for sure, but at which price? Pay the retail price now in a 10-minute sales window before the release or pay lots more later on ebay.
Why then in the world should I respect a company which follows such a terrible sales strategy for us gamers if other small publishers go the normal retail route and put great niche/digital- games on physical disc? I don't have any respect for the owners of LR, nice guys as they might be, they should rather stand in a corner be ashamed of themselves, instead, they are laughing all the way to the bank defended by a very active fanbase often with fanbase-arguments scraping the bottom of the reasoning barrel.
Just explain to me why you are defending LR with their disadvantegous sales model while other companies prove again and again that the sales model you prefer works just fine? Doesn't ebay scalping bother you? And if yes, what do you think about a company which encourages ebay scalping even including ebay scalping in their sales strategy from the beginning and still does?
And, no, I don't think that opinions on Internet forums change the world or that I would even put a dent in the well-running LR-car by expressing my opinion about this company. But if you can express your positive opinion about LR what a great company it is to serve us gamers well, do I have your permission to express my criticism about LR? If you like to insinuate again that I am "obsessed" with this company, I think your immediate responses whenever I post something and your foot-soldier attitude toward LR might shed the 'obsession'-light upon yourself.
In all seriousness, this is one of the stupidest things I ever read on an Internet forum. I should start my OWN BUSINESS in order to prove that it is possible to go for these kind of games the normal retail route? First, can you go a bit lower?
, second, this is done already by the dozens, I have around 120 PS4 games on my list for these games from smaller publishers, third, it is not about RE-RELEASING games from LR!! Once released, this niche-market is not big enough for a re-release as a very big rule. The lack of re-releases is your reasoning that the LR-way is the only way? Not good, not good at all.
Thank god Inside/Limbo won't be a LR release. We'll get a regular release, no 5 minute purchase-window even if a buy is possible 30 000 feet high above in the air, no ebay scalping for about $100 one day after the release date, a terrible thought. I don't know how these companies do it, they must be wizards.