Quote Originally Posted by Aussie2B View Post
I just hope the Dragon Quest 7 remake drives down the prices on the older versions. That's the only localized mainline entry that I've yet to buy in any form, and I'm more interested in playing original versions of games than remasters/remakes, unless I'm already well familiar with the original.
I'm never going to sell Dragon Warrior 7 but I hate that these modern rereleases do tank the cost of the games. Instead of publishers actively making new games, let's just reduce the cost of classic games by doing yet another rerelease.

I mean here's the thing, people can say it brings the game to a new audience all they want, but if you've never played the games and want to play or own them. You can either purchase the games, they won't be devalued because there's not another release, if you really want to sell it that badly afterwards you'll get most if not all of your money back. But oh wait... you've got emulation. No one can complain about not being able to play the games if they don't collect when they can just emulate it at no cost. It's not like there's a rerelease in most cases.

Because not only does it reduce the cost of the games themselves, but, it also makes less of a reason to own the consoles. Example. There's next to no reason to own a Vita or a Wii U aside a few games that you can count on a single hand, you can play everything literally anywhere else. The consoles lose their identity when you just keep porting everything.

Then finally back to the reduced cost. You don't see car collectors crying about rereleasing a replicate 1965 Ford Mustang because they don't want to pay after market value. No, they buy the cars because they know they'll get their money back.