Remasters haven't really had the best reputation since they became a thing, between missing effects, gameplay changes, omitted music, and the like; but they were at least functional for a while.

These days, it feels like publishers' approach is, "yo, this is a broken pile of shit. Drop it". And people continue to lap it up, because gamers don't seem to have any goddamn standards, so of course we'll continue to see this race to the bottom accelerate.

At least they bundled the real game with this turd, even if now people have to pay a premium. But both the dev team and the publisher should know: this is a piss poor product, and you should have done a better job.

...while, as a comparison, Syberia wasn't delisted at the publishing of its remaster.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/syberia
https://www.gog.com/en/game/syberia_remastered

the takeway is that this is somewhar a normalized sales strategy ergo the lesson might that when a new remaster is announced/coming the og version just in case.

-- except broken sword, please someone stop financing the remakes! :D give it a rest!

to me it just makes me want to get the bundle 10yr later at the same price that the original was....the power of backlog is that there is always something to do and focus time/attention and wallet wanders elsewhere


EDIT:
Blood will also have a new version soon.... https://www.gog.com/en/game/blood_refreshed_supply where the og will be included, will the og be delisted? :p

The pre-order concept is funny already but also find amusing that a game that is up for 66% discount before being available...this timeline is hilarious :)

Disappointing direction, I can't see them salvaging this beyond some hotfixes. I'm not too optimistic about a Sacred 1 remaster too..