I agree that it's a terrible company, but LRG, the Literal Representation of Greed, are the most popular and have more reach than any other limited games publisher that they've released games from Sega, Square Enix, Microsoft, and now Capcom. They even released Larian's Divinity Original Sin 2 who also normally publishes their own games.

While I am glad they're around, I really hate the company for many reasons.

First off is price, yes, I'm a collector and I spend more than your average gamer would on games, but I don't make a sh-- ton of money, I am able to buy more games because I'm pretty frugal with how i spend my money. Remember back in the day when LRG stated their games were never going to be more than $10 in excess of the game's digital price with a minimum of $25? Now the games are $20 more on nearly every single title, for Sword of the Vagrant, a game that was $10, LRG was selling it for $35. 350% of the digital releases cost. I already bought the PAL version for $22, but I do prefer NTSC U(ESRB rating,) I didn't buy it. I did buy certain games from LRG still though, like Ender Lilies(an amazing 9/10 game,) Infernax, and others despite being more expensive from LRG than other retailers because I wanted the NTSC U version.

And I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but whenever LRG releases a game for sale, that specific game's preorder release almost always coincides with a sale. What I do know are these games are no longer making any money after weeks, but especially not after the months or years that LRG finally decides to sell them, so odds are the publishers aren't getting 70% of the digital price, odds are they're getting a much smaller cut, maybe LRG states that they'll wait for the games to release on a sale date and start selling them at that point. I don't know, no one really knows but LRG, but I'm pretty certain that LRG is making in excess of the extra $20 that you're paying.

Then there's shipping costs. LRG is the US, I live in the US, shipping costs for most retailers are free if you purchase a certain amount, most retailers will also give you a free box, the item in question will often times be packaged securely with padding to make sure it's safe from damage. LRG not only overprices their shipping costs, but the item you receive is in the cheapest packaging possible. I've bought games from Ebay with free shipping that have better packaging than LRG's releases. I can pay less on my own to ship an item with better packaging than LRG. Yet a company that I'm certain gets a discount in shipping due to the hundreds of thousands of products they ship per year, bends us over and isn't just pricing us shipping costs, they're making more profit off shipping itself.

Then, LRG often makes certain releases fully patched on disc/card, and when they do that they'll make big announcements all over the place, they make it a big deal, but when they don't make these announcements, that's when you need to be worried. For example, their Yakuza rereleases, which they sold every Yakuza game from 0 to 6 at literally outrageous prices and every single game on the PS4 has version 1.0. There are literally no updates on the disc. N++ which people constantly asked before the preorder was over can LRG wait for t he Ultimate patch to release before they release it, a game with a limited print back in the day, nope. The game is missing 50% of the total content that LRG could have waited and released it completely up to date. My favorite game of all time is Brigandine The Legend of Forsena and also the remake Brigandine Grand Edition, so I bought the Switch version on release of which is not patched, however, it gets worse. When the PS4 version released, it was announced by the publisher to be releasing on the PS4 with a day one patch that would update the enemy AI, add a few more difficulty options, and add two more third tier monsters, the Shadow Goblin which could now move and use its paralyze wave with an MP cost and the Titan which could use a two hex AOE skill called Ragnarok. All of this was announced on the exact same publisher announcement that this patch would be releasing day one of the digital release. A digital release which happened only a couple months after LRGs preorders ended and around six months before we received the physical copy, only for once again, the patch to not be included on the disc. A patch that was revealed during the announcement of the game on PS4.

Limited Run Games is a POS company that unfortunately, as collectors we can't do anything about and we also can't do without if we want the games that they're releasing.

On a further note, I think after the last few years, and I'm certain this is because of these limited print publishers and developers and publishers are realizing that collectors are willing to pay so much money for these physical releases, this the reason why since around 2020 we haven't price drops as quickly and as frequently for the vast majority of games. Yes, there are price drops, there are still deep discounts of physical media at some points in the year, but as someone who generally waited until everything was at a low cost, it seems publishers are just keeping everything as high priced as they can now days and I believe it's because these limited print companies have shown these companies we'll eventually pay these exorbitant prices as long as they don't reduce them. It's not just Nintendo anymore that it's so hard to find a reasonable price on games without waiting over a year in some cases.