Doesn't making them all mandatory kinda take the point out of having trophies in the first place? Ha ha.

Pretty much, yes. The DLC (which I'm buying today, hopefully) looks to have some non-mandatory Trophies.

EDIT: Those non-mandatory Trophies ended up being so easy, they could very well have been mandatory.

Because this site is dead until news comes up, I'll post some news for you: Patch release date - July 25th.

Source: http://operationrainfall.com/zone-of-th ... announced/

Is this the thing where they reprogrammed the entire game to fix the issues?

I believe so, yes.

EDIT: Turns out, the patch is out now. I downloaded it a little while ago, and it makes ZOE2 run beautifully. No clue if it has any effect on ZOE1.

EDIT 2: No effect on ZOE1.

HOLY SHIT IT FEELS LIKE AN ENTIRELY NEW GAME!!! The fluidity, the cutscenes don't lag. it's just WOW

Now, if only they could get rid of that extra section in Inhert's fortress...

You'd think that with a new game released, we would have gotten some new members, but the HD collection gave us no new regulars.

Technically, me. I didn't actually join until after the announcement of the HD Collection (both MGS and ZOE). I'd been dropping back and forth as a guest more than once, though, before I became a member.

Oh really?! Geez, seems like these collections were announced a really long time ago, huh? I still remember that Mega64 and "Jehuty in 1080p" thing.