Imo it was a diferent time back then, i love the megaman games but lets be honest megaman was always 6 or more robot masters, then 3 sigma or willy stages, boss gauntlet and final boss, and that was the formula for like 15 or more years in megaman and megaman X. Making games was always about money it just now that companies are pushing more for their "games as a service" BS because of the online connectivity and that its due to some companies being extremely successful with similar methods, blizzard being a prime example, their games are classics but they have tons of DLC, expansions, micros, subscriptions, lootboxes, etc and companies in their short sightedness copy them, like the boom of the military FPS when CoD make truckloads of money. I do miss the physical goodies in the cases, heck i preffer discs instead of digital but its a shame that today most games bring the discs and nothing more, i despise the Swich games boxes because its like a whole case for a tiny SD card, what a waste.