| JWeinCom said:
Then you're reading the context wrong. I don't feel that I need to flag everything I say with "this is my opinion". I feel that it goes without saying that whatever I say is my opinion because who else's opinion could it possibly be? And if two million people, or 3 million, or a billion people think it's a good value, then that really doesn't make a difference to me. My opinion is not a democracy. The idea of charging more for something that takes less effort is hard to justify. The fact that Sony withheld information from their customers that prevented them from making an informed choice is a blatantly anticonsumer policy. And, I don't think that part is an opinion. Sony prevented their PS3 customers from deciding whether to buy the PS3 version or wait. No way you can claim that's good for consumers. Speaking of which, I never said any laws were being broken. There are tons of things that people or companies can do within the scope of the law that are still crappy things to do. For instance, we're constantly getting games that are rushed out and broken at launch. Is that illegal? No (although there are some class action lawsuits going on I believe). That doesn't mean it isn't against the best interests of the consumer. |
You are right, the idea of charging more for something that takes less effort is hard to justify, in the case of TLoU Remastered I think it is very justified considering more money was put into a $40 game hence the $10 price induction.
We can fall back on opinions all we want. What matters more than opinions are the actual state of affairs. Remasters are good for consumers as well as help build the budgets for the up and coming games, especially in the first years of a generation. If you don't like it, then too bad I guess.
I honestly don't think you know what anti-consumerism is. TLoU is a product that had 100% honest regulated marketing/packaging with all the intended services that were sold in the interest of the buyer. Remastering TLoU on a NEW system with different capabilities, adding in more content, upping the resolution and framerate, enhancing the audio...this is not anti-consumerism, its the exact opposite. State your opinions all you want but there are definitions put in place and once you start spewing, "This is anti-consumerism", then you have officially treaded outside of the opinion zone and I'm sorry to say but you are dead wrong.
If TLoU (PS3) had code taken out of it and had its performance hindered on purpose just so ND/Sony could re-sell the game as a remaster then yeah, you'd have a point, but there is zero evidence of the PS3 being capable of running this game nearly as well as the PS4 handled TLoU Remastered.
