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Super Rare Games Changes Course On Physical-Only “Shorts”, Makes Them Timed Exclusives

“The criticism is 100% right”.

Unless E3 has completely fried your brain and made you lose all sense of time, you may remember back on Friday that Super Rare Games — one of the major publishers that help indie studios release physical editions of their games — announced “Super Rare Shorts”, which was their plan to fund physical-only indie releases. (We spoke to them about it, if you want a little more context.)

Now, while physical-only releases may be good news to collectors, it was worrying news for others, who had concerns about availability, short pre-order windows, and generally just being excluded from playing certain games. Friend of the site (and occasional NL contributor) Chris Scullion wrote about the “worrying precedent” that physical-only releases might set, also citing Devolver’s similar plan for Demon Throttle:

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