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If you keep giving them money at or around the time it comes out (or before, but I don't think they do preorders), then they will never stop doing this.
This has nothing to do with pre-ordering. I don't pre-order and I usually can't afford to get things right when they come out, unless they release on sale. They keep doing this because: 1. Dumb fucks buying it when they already have the og edition because of FOMO on the few things that were added. 2. People that hadn't bought the game yet so they buy the newer "definitive" edition.
Most other games that end up with a GOTY edition usually include all the content that was originally dlc, and can be "upgraded" to, usually for less than all of it did originally. And you don't have to redo achievements.
The thing with DQ is that there is no dlc. They just add some collectible or a couple of quests to flesh out where a character disappeared to or something. It's not enough content to even qualify as possible dlc. And there's no "upgrade" pricing.
So the only way to "stop this" is to do what I've already been doing— not buying it twice. But that doesn't actually stop them.
I wonder if it's a Japanese thing because the only other game I recall doing something like that was the Dark Souls remaster whatever. They at least had the decency to offer something if you owned the original but fuck having two copies of the same game with slightly improved gfx.
It certainly is, and it goes all the way back to at least the late 90s. I lived there from 00-03 and I saw so. many. games. do this. Granted, I was console only back then, and in Japan the number of new and used game stores is mind-blowing, so it's not like you couldn't trade in the old version and get at least SOME money back. Can't do that on PC.