Sega has been celebrating its 60th anniversary with Sonic the Hedgehog taiyaki, and now it’s announced that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Nights into Dreams can be played free on Steam. This has gotten many fans excited, but Sonic’s lead programmer, Yuji Naka, is not pleased with this.
Naka gave his thoughts on Twitter, and SoraNews24 supplied a translation.
ナイツまで無料になっているのですね。ソニック2に続いて無料とはセガはどうしたのでしょうか?
ソニックとナイツをもう少し大事にしても良いような気がしますが、もう古いからでしょうかねえ。
『ナイツ NiGHTS into dreams…』Steam版が無料配布中。https://t.co/AEUi4zS8mH @AUTOMATONJapan— Yuji Naka / 中 裕司 (@nakayuji) October 15, 2020
He continued with this tweet:
ナイツまで無料になっているのですね。ソニック2に続いて無料とはセガはどうしたのでしょうか?
ソニックとナイツをもう少し大事にしても良いような気がしますが、もう古いからでしょうかねえ。
『ナイツ NiGHTS into dreams…』Steam版が無料配布中。https://t.co/AEUi4zS8mH @AUTOMATONJapan— Yuji Naka / 中 裕司 (@nakayuji) October 15, 2020
Naka got responses from both people who agreed and people who disagreed. One person in agreement wrote, “I strongly agree with you. I saw they were free on Steam yesterday, but I didn’t download them. The credits were full of people who didn’t make them. Games are for gamers and creators.”
One person who disagreed wrote, “Giving away games for free doesn’t always mean the company doesn’t value them…It lets the maximum number of people play them, and that’s not a bad thing. It’s also a thank-you to fans who have been supporting the franchise for so long, and helps keep the love that particular game going.”
What do you think of Naka’s comments?
Source: SoraNews24
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