'Bioshock 2 Remastered' Launches on macOS

[Homy]

A few things:

• I reject your notion that my analogies don't work. They do. Clearly. Particularly Dark Souls. It's an overpriced "remaster" to a captive audience. That's not a personal indictment on you, but I think if you take a step back you can see that quite clearly. You can pay for the game, enjoy it, and also think that it's overpriced and old. It's ok.
• Let's avoid brining Trump into this, since I'm not sure how it's relevant.
• I stand by my assertion that Mac users who think remastered games are a great thing are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. You can disagree, but characterizing that as emotional and personal simply highlights that you are taking it personal.
• You're missing the point. There's nothing wrong with remastering games or buying games that are remastered. The issue is thinking that it is something to be celebrated. I disagree. It's a ho-hum event. That's it. I'm not sure why you're so interested in saying that I "claim" to be a Mac owner. Want to elaborate on that?
• I've lost touch with reality?
• I didn't think the game was a ripoff 10 years ago when it was $15 or whatever. Yes. That's correct. I think it's overpriced and borderline rip off today.

Uh also I guess you should relax, reflect, and rethink?

This is actually getting hilarious. 😄 I feel I'm talking to a bot. Like those NPCs in games that after a couple of lines run out of new lines and keep repeating the same sentences. "My analogies work, BS2 is a rip-off, My analogies work, BS2 is a rip-off".

You keep repeating that the analogy works clearly but you clearly don't explain it or understand how it's not relevant in the case of BS2. For BS2 Remastered to be a rip-off it has to cost the same or nearly the same as Dark Souls in your analogy, $60. When it doesn't and it's much cheaper you can't any longer use that analogy or call it a rip-off. If you still think $6.59 for a remastered game targeted to others who haven't played it is a rip-off you're either cheap as hell, someone who pirates games and wants to pay nothing for them or someone who doesn't play games and is not familiar with the market and pricing, hence has lost touch with reality. Well, you did mention that you played the game ten years ago and don't play games anymore so it's not a surprise. And that's only one of your strange statements and reasonings.

Anyhow I'm not going to waste anymore time on someone who doesn't comprehend simple logic and see things one-sided. I may as a Mac user suffer from "Stockholm syndrome" without knowing it but you as a non-gamer seem to suffer from simply being cheap and narrow-minded. And no, that wasn't personal, only a simple reflection about your behavior. One could also say that you behave delusional and paranoid without knowing it, but maybe you know it already since you seem to be the psychologist here. Sorry nothing personal...

 

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This is actually getting hilarious. 😄 I feel I'm talking to a bot. Like those NPCs in games that after a couple of lines run out of new lines and keep repeating the same sentences. "My analogies work, BS2 is a rip-off, My analogies work, BS2 is a rip-off".

You keep repeating that the analogy works clearly but you clearly don't explain it or understand how it's not relevant in the case of BS2. For BS2 Remastered to be a rip-off it has to cost the same or nearly the same as Dark Souls in your analogy, $60. When it doesn't and it's much cheaper you can't any longer use that analogy or call it a rip-off. If you still think $6.59 for a remastered game targeted to others who haven't played it is a rip-off you're either cheap as hell, someone who pirates games and wants to pay nothing for them or someone who doesn't play games and is not familiar with the market and pricing, hence has lost touch with reality. Well, you did mention that you played the game ten years ago and don't play games anymore so it's not a surprise. And that's only one of your strange statements and reasonings.

Anyhow I'm not going to waste anymore time on someone who doesn't comprehend simple logic and see things one-sided. I may as a Mac user suffer from "Stockholm syndrome" without knowing it but you as a non-gamer seem to suffer from simply being cheap and narrow-minded. And no, that wasn't personal, only a simple reflection about your behavior. One could also say that you behave delusional and paranoid without knowing it, but maybe you know it already since you seem to be the psychologist here. Sorry nothing personal...

1. Calls someone an NPC
2. Doesn't ask for explanations but also can't see simple analogies
3. Not going to "waste time anymore'
4. Says the other person can't "comprehend simple logic" and "only sees things one-sided"
5. Calls the other person "cheap and narrow minded"
6. Calls the other person "delusional" and "paranoid".

Like yea jeez, should I even continue to engage with you here?

First, the games don't have to be the same price. That's beside the point. The concept here is captive audience and the ability to charge people more for the same product. Certainly (as yet another clear analogy) you can see this with buying a Bud Light at a sport stadium versus buying one at a local grocer. I certainly don't celebrate paying higher prices for the same product in that fashion even if it's maybe better than nothing.

The reason Dark Souls is a great example here is because it's the exact same scenario. Nintendo Switch owners have access to an old game. Great. But that's not worth celebrating. You could have played the same game on another device years ago, and to this day buy it more cheaply elsewhere. Do buyers of the game potentially really enjoy it and find that it's worth the value? Sure. Does that mean the entire Switch community should celebrate re-releases of old games (especially in place of new ones)? I think not. It's the same scenario here. I'm not sure how there is even anything to disagree with here either. It's the exact same approach that the game developers and distributors are taking, hence why I mentioned Dark Souls on the Switch. I'd love to see you actually provide a coherent discussion as to why this is not the exact same tactic. Why is it worth being happy about from a community standpoint? My bar is getting games that other platforms do at the same time they do, not years later. I guess I just have higher standards?