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Master_Magnus posted...

It doesn't make any sense for me to have to buy the same game again to get any upgrades.

Sure it does. There are many reasons why it might not be practical to deliver those upgrades to older versions or offer a special purchase option for existing owners, not least of which is the fact that existing owners generally don't care that much and it's therefore rarely worthwhile to put in any work to get the content to them.

Master_Magnus posted...

It's wrong that I have to buy the same game twice ever.

You never *have* to. You either choose to because you feel it'll be worth the extra cost, or you choose not to because you don't. Those are the only two possibilities, neither of which amount to forcing you to buy the game any number of times.

Master_Magnus posted...

For my entire life I bought a videogame and got a complete definitive game and that was it.

I've demonstrated how false this is. Remakes are becoming more common as the library of remake-eligible games grows (a natural consequence of the passage of time), and the WiiU is certainly seeing an unusual amount of it, but enhanced rereleases of games have been happening for pretty much as long as home gaming has been a thing.

Master_Magnus posted...

LOL only Wii U games sink to $10 used.

Not at all. Unless they're particularly high-demand or hard to find used copies of (which, actually often applies to used Nintendo games), it's usually pretty easy to find older games for $10. Heck, without even looking at used copies, most non-Nintendo games routinely drop to ~$10 in Steam sales and the like, even within their own generation (not that generations mean anything on the PC).

Master_Magnus posted...

Too late to be healthy.

Therapy can always help, provided you actually want to improve and stick with it for long enough. Seriously, look into it. Your self-destructive fixation on this issue is suggesting to me you've either got OCD or some manner of ASD (I'm not a medical professional and this is not a proper diagnostic setting, so do not under any circumstances treat this rough guess as being more credible than a diagnosis from an actual doctor), both of which can pretty easily be treated well enough to improve your quality of life. You don't have to resign yourself to being unhealthy and unhappy.

Now, whether or not you can afford therapy is another issue, but this isn't a topic to get into the evils of for-profit medicine.

Master_Magnus posted...

Now all I can hope for is for the game industry to stop exploiting my obsession for infinite money.

That's never going to happen, particularly where they don't really care about your particular obsession. Porting WiiU games to the Switch is not a matter of trying to convince WiiU owners to buy the games a second time, it's a matter of trying to sell the games to Switch owners that didn't buy them the first time (mostly because they didn't have a WiiU). MK8 Deluxe has sold ~29 million copies, compared to 8.5 million for the original. Even if every single person that bought the original also bought the remake, that's still only a third of the sales, and I can guarantee that's a very unreasonable assumption to make (if nothing else, I can personally vouch for one person who did not rebuy it).

Quite simply, the money is not in convincing WiiU owners to buy their games a second time. That's a nice bonus when they can get it, but the real money is in the fact that 5 times more people own a Switch than ever owned a WiiU, and that figure just keeps climbing. That's who they're selling this to; don't delude yourself into thinking they care that much about double dipping into your wallet.

Master_Magnus posted...

Extra implies that it's not significant.

No, "extra" implies that it's not necessary. Which it isn't. The game was perfectly enjoyable before this content existed, and that game hasn't changed. It's just as enjoyable now without the new content as it was then because the experience is identical (ignoring changes in personal perception due to evolving standards for gameplay conventions, controls, and other aspects that factor into determining how well a game has aged). That means the new content is something extra added to provide further enjoyment.

Will the experience without the content be inferior to the enhanced experience? Probably. But being less enjoyable and being unenjoyable are two very different things. As I mentioned earlier, I like eating cake with ice cream and berries better than without, but cake on its own is still a perfectly complete dessert.

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