Why on earth does all the weeshit on PSN stay at obscene prices? Things like Atelier, Tales, anything by Gust or NIS in particular seems to suffer from "weeb tax" that keeps the prices insanely high.
Its not even 'because japan' because in sales you see shit like MGSV drop to £6.99 while in sales any of the "rpg with anime artstyle" games drop to £19.99 at best. The only exception i have ever seen was Witch and the Hundred Knight for £11.99 a while back.
Whats the deal with this?
In some cases, there's no physical release, which strikes me as a case where the publisher takes advantage of no used copies being around to control how much people have to pay. And usually even when used copies get cheaper, it takes a fair while for the publisher themselves to take note and (maybe) give the game a permanent price drop for the digital release.
With Odin Sphere Leifthrasir though, that just came out a few weeks ago. Doesn't shock me that they'd still be asking full price (though I've already seen one Vita copy locally down to about $23 used).
Why should they change the prices if people will pay them?
Shit is buggy as fuck and can brick consoles. That's probably how bad it needs to get before they make it cheaper.
Wasnt the bricking solved? or just a US version issue?
NISA fixed something? Sounds hard to believe, m8.
Well NIS might and NISA left you to rot. Again.
The PS3 version of The Witch and the Hundred Knight crashed (it didn't brick consoles).
The PS4 re-release is fine.
As for Odin Sphere Leifthrasir, the price is relative to how much value you give to the product.
Personally i think it's the best re-release ever made with tons of effort put into it, and it additionally contains the original version of the game gameplay wise, in HD.
So for me the price was absolutely worth it, especially since it's a pretty damn long game overall in addition to all that.
But either way i'm sure it'll go on sale soon.
Because people pay a premium for their fetishes. Modern Japanese games do not offer compelling gameplay so instead they make their games designed to alleviate the crushing loneliness of otaku.
That's almost 10 years ago.
Odin Sphere is published by Atlus, they seem to be putting "extra taxes" on all of their games as of lately.
The fact every Atelier+ game is still a full 40 bucks many years after the release of the first one and never go on sale makes me think Bandai Namco doesn't give a shit either.
If you want fair pricing, beg to your god of choice to get it localized by Xseed. NISA usually has good pricing and put their games on every digital sale possible, but, well, they're NISA.
The entire point of the remake is to revamp the original gameplay to the point where it's almost an entirely different game.