Companies are selling us nostalgia because GAMERS are demanding it.
For personal reasons I wish gamers would stop demanding it and stop purchasing it. I want new games.
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But people can do whatever they want with their money, just like they’ve always had. It’s not some new thing that people want to buy things that they cherished in their younger years or maybe they were not capable of getting it back then so they don’t mind just being capable of dropping extra cash to have it now. If it makes people happy then it’s not dangerous.
Although there may be a point here somewhere that spending the money on those things has kept from investing in new ideas, if the old things can profit.
Probably why we have so many horrible movies.
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I wanted to add as well auto repair shops bs how long repairs take because if something costs 1000 dollars and you can do it in a half hour they will think they got ripped off or that it’s a simple thing. People are weird like that.
…So? What is wrong with that exactly??.. 
If gamers wanted remasters of old games, then so be it. Literally no harm done. It’s their darn choice and we shouldn’t have to take it away from them.
Infact, there’s tons of old games that people would like to play again and be sold, but it’s not being sold anymore or on a system that is no longer being supported. And usually the way to get those is either paying the higher/lower then it’s MRP price on amazon/ebay or just outright pirating it. Either way, that harms the devs who made that game because they are not getting the sales for that game, even if it’s an old game.
The wish is already granted you silly goat! Their still going to make both! 
So help me crocodile jesus.
Why is it implied that if you’re remaking something old, you can’t add any new ideas to it? I mean didn’t we just had FF7 remake?.. 
New games and new content in games has been reduced to a starvation diet.
You know this man. Are you not enjoying call of duty 9 or madden 2022.
I remember when nostalgia first infested gaming now it’s fully taken over.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and that’s a fact.
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Citation needed that New games and new content has been reduced.
…Wait. That’s your definition of New?.. just sequels to long old existing games with hardly a new idea?.. What did the newest CoD and Madden added from the previous game other then better graphics and more monetizations?
I remember when microtransactions and other anti-consumer practices first infested gaming now it’s fully taken over.
Hollywood also… I can’t wait for fast and the furious 12.9.
But if people keep buying why change
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Have you enjoyed your 7 plus months of Shadowlands? Do I need to say more.
Somehow Blizzard managed to have TBC ready to go right on time but failed at having 9.1 ready?
I mean do I really need to explain what is already obvious all over the gaming world.
People would rather play TBC over retail WoW.
A lot of that is nostalgia sickness.
If modern games weren’t trash I wouldn’t have to play old ones.
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Not really, no. i just unsubbed a week later.
Honestly yes, because you still didn’t provide a citation to how new games are reduced because of the remasters.
Claims without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
Is this your grand overarching point of this thread existing here?
If it’s an obvious problem, we would all be rejecting TBC. But that’s not the case here.
So this is just an elaborately disguised “Boo Classic, yay Retail” thread, is it?
Okay but the cheapest Goemon game on amazon is like $175. I would gladly pay 2021 prices for that game on the Switch…
You’re being so irrationally dangerous right now!
I think you missed the fact I wrote Call of duty 9 and madden 2022 as sarcasm.
I consider new games more original ideas.
New content for me would be as an example WoW should have new patches every 3 to 4 months to maintain excellence.
Micro transactions basically exist because games should cost at a minimum of 100 usd adjusted for inflation but no gamer is going to pay that.
There is a variety of reasons Blizzard doesn’t speak on the forums, but is not classic. You keep saying we should all move on, but to what? What are you moving on to?
Oh don’t worry, my comment is sarcastic too. 
See? we can both do this and it won’t accomplish anything.
Plus you said this on what would be new content here, very vaguely might i add. Giving me the feeling that “sarcastic” comment you made, you actually meant. 
What constitutes original to you? What is excellence for you? what is new content for you?
Where did you hear that if there’s no MTX, it will cost $100? … Citation needed on this as well. Because PS5 games are now $70 and the MTX are still in there. A price hike doesn’t magically make the MTX go away.
And i really don’t want MTX in games because they are pretty bad despite being normalized. They are WAY worse then remasters, that’s for sure.
I don’t think you even understand that different gamers have different wants on what kind of video game they want. Some do play just new games and move on, some play old games, and some play a mix of both.
Forget about nostalgia for a minute. Imagine both games are brand new. Knowing what you know about both games, which one would you rather play? If this is some kind of important decision for anyone, they should at least look at it like that for a moment while deciding what to play. Keep in mind that some people play both.
For me, nostalgia wouldn’t be the primary reason I would play classic, but I’m sure I would feel nostalgic about it at times, either in thought, or at times while playing.
" Oh I remember this place. Orgrimmar. Let me check out the building by the AH to see if Gamon is there. Ahh, that’s the reason I went to classic, so I could kill Gamon again. "
Nothing wrong with that, nostalgia it’s a natural part of human emotion.
What could be dangerous about nostalgia would be companies using nostalgia in a predatory manner to capitalize on your nostalgic emotions… I don’t see blizzard doing anything wrong in this area. Now if they started making a bunch of changes and started offering paid services for more specicfic things in a certain manner, then this could be an area of concern. I don’t see this happening though.
They charge the same price they used to (even though it’s an old game) because they promote the sub price as including all 3 games, not any specific game.
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I think classic was a fine game.
For me personally I need GAMERS to put down the Nostalgia pipe for a few years so we can get some new games.
Super Mario World is a good game.
It doesn’t matter what year it is.
Diablo 2 is a good game.
It doesn’t matter what year it is.
Warcraft 2 Tides of Darkness and Through the Dark Portal is a good game.
It doesn’t matter what year it is.
Burning Crusade is a good expansion.
It doesn’t matter what year it is.
Paying 60 dollars for a bad, next generation game a much bigger waste of money than getting an updated version of a good, old game.
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Typically remasters don’t take much in the way of money or dev resources. Classic for example was thrown together with what looks like a skeleton team compared to the main WoW team.
There are exceptions of course, like the FF7 remake which was a colossal effort. But in that case, it’s so much more of a reimagining than it is a remaster that it’s practically a new game anyway.
In short, I don’t think we’re getting any fewer new games as a result of the existence of remasters.
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