My question is:
Why aren't EA offering a discount on the C & C Remastered Collection, to owners of the Ultimate Collection.
If I bought the Remastered Collection, then I would effectively be buying some of the C & C games again.
It should be right that I get some sort of discount.
With no discount offered, I will be waiting till I can get the Remastered Collection at a reduced price from game key stores.
Yet again, EA you do not get my money.
Perhaps I should not have titled this thread as a RIP OFF.
I know the price isn't too bad.
I acknowledge that some of the games have been free in the past.
Plus I too bought the original boxed copies in the past.
I have been gaming since the days of the ZX Spectrum.
I just think it would have been a good idea for EA to reward owners of the Ultimate Collection with some form of discount, even a small one.
There have been many instances of companies rewarding owners of games with extra content / free copies of remasters etc.
Because the remaster isn't part of the Ultimate Collection?
I don't own the Ultimate Collection but I bought the First Decade pack when that came out (and already had copies of most of the games) so now I own 3 copies of the original C&C if you count the remaster. What you're not realising is that this is basically a new game. There was a lot of effort put into this project and you cannot expect it to be given away for free.
The price seems very fair to me. I'd have payed that to Frank for the remastered sountrack alone (£20 for 100 or so tracks.. bargain).
I have hated on EA in the past and I stand my comments about them but for this I have to applaud what they have accomplished and think that £20 is money well spent.
They likely will do an "Ultimate Ultimate Collection" at some point which includes the remaster (or a Legacy Collection and a Remaster Collection if we get more remasters) but as it stands this is a new product and it doesn't make sense to give it away free.
I didn't say they should give it away for free.
I said get it discounted for owners of the Ultimate Collection.
I say this because the Ultimate Collection was released on Origin as opposed to earlier versions of C&C which were not released on Origin.
I agree the price is fair, £17.99 in UK, not £20.
But I will be waiting till I can get it cheaper.
Since it should be easy enough for Origin to identify those who purchased the Ultimate Collection, it would have been possible to give us a few bucks off. It probably wouldn't have taken much to get the extra "feel good" for the repeat customers,perhaps a 10% off "upgrade discount"? I would like to think this was discussed with the players who were involved in the remastering process with a good reason for not doing so. But I do have to wonder how many "new" players will be purchasing the game. The $20 price tag is not typical given the amount of content and if they charged more there would certainly be significantly fewer purchasers by those of us who have bought the game 2 or 3 times over already.
Ah well, it is what it is.
@zoolex wrote:
-Red Alert 2 (double check this, though I think it's fully free)
-Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge is treated as its own thing
Nope. All RA2 gameplay on CnCNet runs on the YR engine, and neither RA2 nor YR are freeware. If you download the installer for RA2 on CnCNet it'll just look for your YR folder and if it doesn't exist, it'll tell you that you need to buy the game.
@GENERALZOOL wrote:
True dedication is owning the N64 Version as well as the Satum Version. Not that I have either of those myself, but then I never owned those consoles.
I own those.
