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Master_Magnus posted...

I am fine missing out on games that I chose not to play at all,

I can guarantee most of the games you've missed out on have been missed not because you chose to skip them, but because you weren't aware of them. Many more have been missed because you said "maybe I'll get that later" and never did (whether because you forgot or simply missed the window where it was available for sale).

Master_Magnus posted...

but I can never live without Bowser's Fury

You have lived without it, and you will continue to live without it.

Master_Magnus posted...

But I cannot buy the game again at $60, because if I let Nintendo take advantage of my addiction I will end up broke like people with a gambling addiction.

You're not going to end up broke over paying $60 for a port every half decade (or if you are, you shouldn't be paying $60 for games in the first place). If you're really concerned about how much it might cost to yield to your compulsion to own every piece of content for game, put together a concrete plan for which ones to buy and when so you can budget appropriately.

In the hypothetical scenario that you've concocted where publishers just rerelease the same games over and over with marginally more content each time, you don't need to buy every single iteration to get all of it. You just need to buy, say, every 5th one, dramatically reducing the cost and ensuring that you get a more worthwhile amount of extra content for the purchase (plus, on that time scale, you'll probably be looking at different systems, which adds a convenience factor). You won't get to play all the content right away, but you'll get it all eventually.

Quite simply, remakes aren't going away, and they're not going to stop adding extra content to be more appealing (note that one of the most common criticisms of Mario 3D All Stars is that they didn't do enough to make the rerelease better than the original: people want improvements from remakes), no matter how much you insist that they should. If you want to stop having a problem with that, that change is going to have to come from you.

Master_Magnus posted...

The time that it takes for a port to happen doesn't matter.

It absolutely does. There's a world of difference between "I shouldn't bother buying this now because a better version will come out next year" and "I shouldn't bother buying this now because there might be a better version in 5-10 years." Waiting a year for a noteworthy upgrade is reasonable, as is being frustrated by a release that obviates a year-old game (especially in a genre where staying on top of current content is so vital to the multiplayer aspect). Waiting half a decade for a minor one is not.

Master_Magnus posted...

I literally cannot stop fixating.

Sure you can. It'll likely take years of therapy and a constant conscious effort to discourage yourself from falling into self-destructive thought processes, because that's the nature of such compulsions, but it's far from impossible.

Master_Magnus posted...

The problem can only be solved if gamers boycott any game dev that pulls a Street Fighter so that I can go back to playing videogames and never worry about missing out any content on any game I buy.

Gamers can't even be convinced to boycott EA. You're certainly not going to convince them to boycott Nintendo over enhancing a 7-year-old game when porting it to a new system (which is very much not "pulling a Street Fighter"), especially considering that you're the only person who has this much of a problem with it. You'll be very hard-pressed to find anyone else who bought SM3DW near its launch and is anything worse than mildly annoyed by this.

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