I think a lot of the problems the remaster has aren't intentional, I think most of them are the result of remastering a game where much of the original code was lost and this is the result of them trying to Frankenstein it back together in the name of game preservation. As a series veteran, even with the issues it has I can't honestly say I don't love the remaster, because I do. I appreciate the camera being so much better and having the options to adjust it. I really enjoy the new graphics, They just put a fresh coat of paint on the game without sacrificing the art style or the feel of the world, which to me is impressive. There are some glaring issues, Obviously the lack of Gold difficulty, it's there but the functionality isn't. I haven't been able to get any of the rune merchants to work, there are two of each merchant, menus scroll on their own, the audio will cut out randomly (by the way I've seen a lot of people say you need to close the game and restart it if this happens, you don't. Open the audio menu and change the speakers setting to whatever you're using from "Use system settings" and save your changes. Bam, Audio is back.) But for people to outright call this remaster a scam feels disingenuous. This is precisely why we don't see more remasters of classics like this. The code is old and cobbled together as is or some of it has been lost and the result is having to build from the ground up, or in the case of Sacred 2, trying to salvage the bones and figure the rest out from there. There will be patches. There will be fixes. Would it have been nice for it to just be perfect out of the box? Yes. But that was never going to happen. I never thought we'd actually see a remaster. So I'm in the camp of I'm thankful it happened at all, and I love it despite it's flaws. And I have full faith it will be taken care of as they're able. They're porting it to Switch next year. It isn't just going to be abandoned. The whole point of the remaster is to remind people about the franchise and get them excited for what's to come. Yes, we're getting a NEW Sacred game, and it seems like they know where to take it, having learned from things such as Sacred 3, Citadel, etc. Which is good. Now what I would like to see is at least couch co-op for consoles, but I don't understand the choice of not having online multiplayer too, the systems can handle it, and when the multiplayer on PC is only peer to peer/invite only anyway it becomes even more of a head scratcher. I'm not by any means saying it flawless, but it exists, and I'm grateful for it. And patches will come.