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The company that delisted DS1 from Steam after they released the remake?

I get your point, but tbf the remaster is identical for all intents and purposes, other than it includes the dlc and has a few optimisations

The original also included the DLC.

In any case, the point is not that the remake shouldn't have been made. The point is that there was no reason to delist the original other than to force people to buy the (more expensive) remake.

I can think of another reasonable reason, not that I agree with them delisting it: Reducing consumer confusion. You don't want people buying the wrong one by accident.

I definitely prefer the visual style pre remaster, it has a much more painterly aesthetic. It also runs on old systems

That's the point. It's basically identical, except they charge full price again.

Delisting the old one when you have released the remake seems completely reasonable to me - they want people to buy the new one. A company isn't compelled to keep selling every product they ever made in perpetuity. If you want to buy most products you can buy the current version, you can't buy either the current version or any other version (your choice) from the past.

>A company isn't compelled to keep selling every product they ever made in perpetuity.

Of course a company is free to stop selling a digital product if it wants to.

Just as I'm free to point out the shittiness of that choice.

This is extremely common. And tbh it’s not the worst thing ever, prevents some people mistakingly buying the old one too.

I'm sure Steam would come up with ways to reduce the chance of people mistakenly buying the old one. The bigger problem for the publisher is usually people intentionally buying the older (cheaper, and sometimes sadly even better) copy.

And being common does not make it less scummy.

Or the developer can do it themselves.

When the new Dead Space was released, the original was renamed to "Dead Space (2008)".

Similarly the Mass Effect titles had years appended to them when the Legendary Edition was released, even though the names were not the same.

XIII was renamed to XIII - Classic when the new one was released.

Also XIII is an example of why you'd want to buy the original even when the remake is released, because the remake is significantly worse.

Huh, I had no idea that XIII had received a remake.

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