Last Friday night, Type-Moon did a live stream where they announced the details of the upcoming re-release of Fate/stay night REMASTERED.
I was anxiously waiting for the announcement of the game, I even stayed up late to watch the live stream but didn't make it long enough to hear the announcement. There was a great deal of preamble and showmanship before they announced the games including Q&A with Kawasumi Ayako, Ueda Kana and Shitaya Noriko, which was interesting. Not interesting enough to keep me awake apparently but had I not been so tired, I am sure I would have watched it. The next morning, I found myself in a nightmare from which I have yet to wake. Fate/stay night REMASTERED will be DIGITAL ONLY and only on Steam & Switch.
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!?!?!
Why the fuck were there limited edition physical releases of Witch on The Holy Night and Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon if you aren't going to do one for Fate/stay night? Aniplex, take some fucking responsibility for people who want to collect the physical products your putting out! You can't just take the mainstay of the entire Fate franchise and only do a digital release after doing limited editions for the prior games. That makes no fucking sense! You couldn't at the very fucking least done a standard physical edition?! Hell even a Japan only release would have been fine! I would have gladly picked up the standard Japanese release on Switch! But no, you made it digital only and now the only ones who might make a physical release could be Limited Run which I won't buy because fuck Limited Run. The most mind-boggling thing is that there are no Playstation versions when Aniplex is ownded by Sony! Honestly, what the fuck are you doing?
The only glimmer of hope left is that since it was also announced in the same livestream that Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED will be released at some point, they will pair them together for a limited edition physical release but I'm not holding my breath. I don't expect them to do the right thing here at all. They will leave Fate/stay night digital only and never do anything else with it. Mark my words. Their focus will be remastering a few more of the early games from the series, all of which will be digital only and then return their focus to FGO with regards to the Fate franchise. After Fate/hollow ataraxia REMASTERED, they'll go onto Fate/Extra Record and that will probably be it. I expect Fate/Extra Record to get a phsyical release since Bandai Namco is publishing it and it's coming to all major consoles. I have no interest in it based on the trailer, looks like all shitty anime games do now. Pass. I was in a rage for multiple days about this whole situation and seeing Fate/stay night be a top seller on Steam on launch day didn't help. I was happy to hear there were issues with the English localisation and some issue with sprites being copy pasted poorly. I didn't look into it too much since my rage over the lack of ANY PHYSICAL EDITION AT ALL is still smoldering.
At this point, I may be done with the Fate franchise as a whole. They have been doing things to push me away for years at this point but I have largely ignored anything beyond the core stories and some of the spin-offs but if this is the amount of respect given to the part of the franchise that I enjoy the most, I am done. I will probably wait a year to see Aniplex changes course on this or does some kind of limited edition of Fate/stay night and Fate/hollow atraxia but as I mentioned before, not holding my breath. If nothing changes, I might sell my copy of Witch on The Holy Night and Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon limited editions. I just don't want to have anything to do with these remasters if this is how it is going to go. Not to mention the amount of typos and localisation issues in Mahoyo is inexcusable. Honestly, I just don't understand why the fuck they would do this...it makes no sense and it ruined any interest I had in playing these remasters. I won't be playing anymore Aniplex games if this is the final word on Fate/stay night.
In conclusion, FUCK ANIPLEX & TM! Have some fucking respect for your fans and your IP.
Update 2024:14:08: I purchased Fate/stay night digitally on switch...I have no self-control.