I’m making this mini recommendation/acknowledgement because yes, i’ve seen the video in the buzz discussing limited print companies today. It’s a pretty big, in-depth research video into Limited Run Games and their many, many instances of quality control, sorta like what I wrote about in the past… but on a far, far larger scale.

A lot of allegations are discussed here, backed up by tons of sources shown and discussed in the video. And outside of me posting this to go “hey, this video is probably for you if you liked my old LRG opinion pieces/are looking forward to the final one”, I’m also here to add a few minor notes.

-These allegations, while I was made newly aware of so, so many of them and was just as bewildered and horrified by the workplace culture behind LRG, also back up a few things I posted in prior articles, mainly hearing about aspects of Quality Control being bad such as higher ups at LRG not being too fussed because they think people won’t open it anyway, and even backlash doesn’t make them change their mind completely

-The whole aspect of Josh Fairhurst from the accusations is so much more than even I could imagine but it fits with me hearing about some releases/merch being done just because it was a Josh Thing he wanted to do, and well, now you know why the LRG store is plagued in Dreamcast stuff for seemingly no reason

-While I have to rewrite my LRG article yet again, I’m not gonna nor did I plan to incorporate much of the stuff discussed in this video in it, besides the stuff that’s now more concrete about their lack of care for quality control since that’s the big bulk of the article. As soon as I knew Shiren 5 PC was known to have a code swap internally months before it got shipped to the public, that was when I knew LRG had to have not cared for stuff to slip out the way it did. Not even to mention the other obscure stuff they did. Did you know Monkey Island had issues before D? not many people do!

But yeah, the big point I was gonna make and will make in my LRG Part 3 piece, is that in order for LRG to truly get better (if it even can at all in a Tariff World), it has to be completely redone from the ground up, and Josh’s behavior/decisions as CEO haven’t been good at all, and with this video’s allegations, pretty much mandates that he must no longer work at the company in order for LRG to have a work culture resembling anything close to “good”. If Embracer know what’s truly right, they should do an investigation immediately and remove him if violations are found, plain and simple. They did it to another guy higher up at LRG, after all (though them keeping josh at that point looks a lot more suspect in hindsight to me)

I’m not even gonna comment on the more complex stuff brought up in the video, but I do implore you all to watch it if you’ve been impatiently waiting for my final LRG piece. It does more than I could ever hope to accomplish, and I think it may make you rethink the entire landscape of limprint media as a whole. I’m not even kidding when if you think back in context to when LRG was founded and how it grew, and with the allegations presented in this video, that means the entire limited print industry was founded on self-enrichment.

As for what happens next? Well I made a ramble piece about tariffs not being good for that market at this rate… And as for how people involved will respond, we’ll see.

For what I have to leave off on about limited print as a whole and possible effects of that gaming space from what this video entails, and how developers/publishers may react if they can find their own information backing up the allegations here?

The Door Of Darkness has been opened.