Author Topic: f*ck PCEworks :)  (Read 1060 times)

soop

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Re: f*ck PCEworks :)
« Reply #15 on: January 11, 2018, 09:25:44 PM »
I agree with everything you've said Seieienbu, but (and I'm in two minds about this) there's the whole jacking up of prices that we see here.  Fine, we all know that prices generally go up as old copies get lost and demand increases,  but I can't see how cases like this guy charging £450 for a bootleg is gonna help the community in general.

seieienbu

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Re: f*ck PCEworks :)
« Reply #16 on: January 12, 2018, 08:26:33 AM »
It definitely isn't.  But that guy's trying to run a business that IS illegal.  With inherent risk comes necessity for more money, I guess?  As outlined above, I think Tobias does some pretty dickish things.  With that said, he also gave us cheap copies of his games as a way of apologizing.  It doesn't change the fact that he intentionally misled people into spending hundreds on his Sapphire repros though.

I think this particular forum isn't his target audience as a lot of us tend to share similar views as I do.  Yeah, repros are fine, whatever.  I'm not paying new-game prices for them, though.  With that said, a lot of the games are just too expensive to buy these days.  I don't blame somebody for wanting to get a copy of an expensive game but not pay the ridiculous rates.  I checked the PCE Works prices a bit ago, and you can generally get 4 games or so for 120 Euros.  Magical Chase he's charging about that much for the one game only.  That makes a vague bit of sense to me for two reasons.  Repro hucards are far more expensive than pressed CDs so it would definitely cost a bit more to begin with.  Beyond that though, going after collectard idiots with the most expensive game on the platform?  Yeah, I'd expect him to charge extra for it.  Imo you should instead just buy an everdrive, but that's a whole other argument.  Tobias' goal isn't to sell games to us, people who know where to get these repro hucards for $45 or whatever they cost over here.  Instead, his goal is to get the larger market that doesn't hang out here.  He wants people who watch youtube videos of Metal Jesus Rocks or whomever that wants to be able to play these games without spending hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Lords of Thunder is a pretty common game, or so I think.  It's not 15 years ago though; you can't buy a new one from TZD for $30.  Apparently Lords goes for up to $200!  That's highway robbery imo but if that's what it's going for then what are you going to do?  Even the .jp version goes for over $100 these days on ebay.  Yeah, if you hang around here long enough you're likely to see either show up at some point but this is a pretty common excellent game that everyone should have in their collection.  Wouldn't it make more sense to someone just now getting into Turbo stuff to buy a reproduction of it if available? 
Current want list:  Bomberman 93