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Price is not just a function of age. It's more complicated than that. Way more.
If you think $20 is too much for this game, that's fine - don't buy it. Enough other people seem to be disagreeing, so that's the price point they arrive at.
This is the best FF PC port they've done, and the game has a lot of replay value on top of already being a solid 50+ hour game for most people. That's worth $20 to a lot of people. If you're not one of them, fair enough. Buy something else for that money. There's tons of really cheap, great games these days.
While true the framework of the game was done in 2006, the remaster is just more than a simple port, and the amount of changes to the game that are available outside of Japan for the first time is pretty high on top of the actual new stuff added (including a whole new soundtrack)
What the hell does the quality of other ports (which aren't as bad as you seem to think as a whole) have to do with THIS one, which is a fantastic port?
Pretty crazy you think anyone in SQEX Japan will actually read this.
I love how any time someone doesn't agree with a ravenous rage against some perceived injustice they're "defending a coorperation".
'Unsold title'? What the hell does that mean? This game has sold over a million copies on Steam alone (to say nothing of the other platforms), I'd say that's pretty well 'sold'.
someone thinks a ps2 game with a 6yr old port is not worth the money. tragic.
I too am a heretic that would not spend money on this.
I would say that there are many other games that - like FF15 - that are not worth the money.
tbf, this port is miles better than other FF ports, especially if you compare it to the XIII trilogy and XV.
ngl, it is odd that XV, which came out a month after TZA, is cheaper. I always found that to be stingy of SE, but there's nothing anyone can do about it. You either get it now or wait years for SE to discount it at 70-80%, which could takes ages considering the only discount it ever had was 50% until September 2023.
Alas. As I see it (and I believe SE might have the same mentality), it all comes down to how much YOU value the game. XII being my favourite, £14/$20 is a steal. I also played it for about 200h not counting all the time I spent with the IZJS version years prior to TZA even being rumoured.
On the note of value, I'm not paying £35 for the FFVII remake, no matter how new it is or how much it shines. At the same time, there are people out there willing to pay full price for a newly-released game that ends up being absolute crap, as was the case for The Callisto Protocol.
The argument of price always comes down to how much the consumer values a game, how much fun they have with it, and how fulfilled they feel once the credits roll, which is why people complain about Bomb Rush Cyberfunk's price while others don't care that it's rather pricey for an indie game, playtime be damned. Same thing in this discussion 🤷♂️ Square Enix couldn't care less that you're not willing to pay that much, which is why this year was the first time the discount turned out to be more than 50%.
PS4, and on PC. I love it so much.
I still have the purchase paper for that. (It wasn't fun waiting outside in 32f (0c) weather though lol.
When I saw at 60% off, it was a instant buy for me
now to get time off from work to enjoy this
Also, the idea that people at square are going to care about or worry about what forum users say is delusional. These forums don't account for remotely enough players for them to worry about what we think of their business practices. Their games sell in the millions and millions of copies worldwide, Steam users on the forums for their games make up what thousands? MAYBE tens of thousands?
How could we POSSIBLY know?
The same way anyone knows if SaGa Enerald Beyond, which comes out in over a month, is censored.
By the existence of historical precedent for a lower sale price. Idk if said lower price has happened or not, but that would be how you would know.