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Master_Magnus posted...

They already know who bought a digital copy of the game.

They would if the account system were that robust and that information were carried over between systems. It probably should be, since it's 2021 and all, but there's little point now in upgrading the firmware for a system that's been dead for four years just to enable the handful of people that care about this bonus content to buy it at a reduced price. That would be a sizable amount of work for very little return.

Master_Magnus posted...

If they don't already have serial numbers for game discs, just let people trade in their physical copy to get the port with a discount. Easy.

Coordinating a physical buyback program is very much not easy. Even ignoring the man-hours that would be involved in organizing it, they'd likely end up paying more than the $10 you're hoping for just to ship the two games (retrieving the old copy and sending the new one out), let alone how much of the sale price would go toward the store itself. There's almost no chance that idea would actually make money.

The only way it's at all practical to get this content to people who own the original is to sell it as a standalone purchase. It remains to be seen whether or not it's enough content to be worth doing so.

Master_Magnus posted...

Those tens of thousands of games aren't worth playing.

Really? You really think that you've played every single game ever released that's worth playing? That there's nothing out there that you'd have fun with if you only knew it existed and could get your hands on a copy? Or, for that matter, that you've never missed out on enjoyable content in a game you have played because you didn't push for 100% completion?

That, I can tell you, is very much not true, and you're kidding yourself to think that it is. Your gaming experience is a tiny fraction of the experience that is available. It always will be, because there simply aren't enough hours in the day to play everything that's worth playing (to say nothing of essential things like eating and sleeping and making the money needed to buy those games). You get by just fine missing out on that content, you'll get by just fine missing out on this.

Master_Magnus posted...

They've never been an issue because I wasn't screwed.

You still aren't screwed. Not by any real measure.

Master_Magnus posted...

Now I am and I will not stop fixating on this until it is solved.

The "problem" only exists because you're fixating on it. If you stopped fixating on it, there would be no problem. Your fixation is the problem. Until you stop fixating, the problem will never be solved.

Master_Magnus posted...

Bowser's Fury is definitely going full Street Fighter.

Bowser's Fury is a small amount of bonus content (the full scope of which is yet unknown) added to a single port released on a different system, 7 years after the original game's release. "Full Street Fighter" means releasing multiple ports, each with significant added content, usually on the same system because they've come out 1-2 years apart. The two are not remotely comparable.

Master_Magnus posted...

It doesn't matter that I enjoyed the game if my life is ruined because there are levels that I will never get to play because I already enjoyed the game.

It doesn't matter for your happiness and satisfaction. It does matter for what the word "extra" means. The English language doesn't care about how satisfied you decide to be, and according to English semantics, it's extra content. By definition.

Master_Magnus posted...
It's a problem that those who bought the Wii U got a s*** deal compared to every other Nintendo console.

They got a generation that was cut short by about a year, with a correspondingly smaller library of exclusive titles. That's kind of inevitable when a console fails commercially, but given how badly the WiiU did, that's about the best anyone could expect from it. I bought the console, I got games for it, I had enough fun overall to feel that the purchase was justified. That hardly sounds like a "shit deal" to me.

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