Latest Comments

Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated

Yosher

@SpaceboyScreams Good grief that sounds horrible if all of that is true. I really hope that things are better now and if not, that the news in this article MAKES things better.

Geez, I bet so many kids thought being a game tester at Nintendo would be the coolest thing ever. I sure did back then so hearing this is kind of heart breaking. I'm sorry to hear you had such a rough time there!

Re: Poll: So, Do You Prefer Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Or Tears Of The Kingdom?

Ramen756

BotW was great, but it really just pales compared to TotK imo. People always cite the openness of BotW, but where they saw openness, I thought “I get to explore the way I want to explore.” TotK just blew that out of the water with the options it gives you. As a child, whenever I got stuck I’d think “I would have done things this way based on my understanding of the physics”. Now, I can actually do things the way I intend to (or sometimes didn’t intend to). I do like my multiple choice exams, but while BotW gave me A,B,C,D, TotK gave me A-Z.

Re: Reminder: Nintendo Is Ending 3DS And Wii U Online Play Early Next Month

HylianFox

Sadly, this is the future of gaming from here on out.

It used to be you bought a console, some game carts/discs, and could play as much as you wanted until either of those things broke or died.

But now, with the emphasis on "always online" and frequent updates, there comes a point where the servers shut down and the game loses some functionality or even becomes unplayable.

Thank god there's a dedicated fanbase of hardcore nerds who can find ways to circumvent this, but even they can only do so much (provided they aren't slapped down by the Powers That Be).

Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated

Alpha008

I don’t have a clue what to make of this. It could be horrifying, totally normal, not terrible, anything. I’d need to be more in tune with what actually goes on within Nintendo, and as they are not particularly public with what they do behind closed doors, I shall have to live in ignorance for the time being.

Which I can deal with, life be miserable enough as it is, I can survive not having another bubble burst

Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated

SpaceboyScreams

@BTB20 It's a long list, top item being the culture we're all sick of hearing about in other companies by now; my girlfriend and I quit when nothing was done about something that was happening to her, blatantly, on full display for weeks, and we weren't even the first people to report it. The sanitation was horrific, there were weird stains and very bad smells everywhere from the carpet to the chairs as if a janitor hadn't been in the area for years. The 3DS units we had to work with were disgusting and falling apart and the keyboards were even worse. It was such a sad little office and they put up mangled old posters of Mario characters that were probably an attempt to make you feel cool about working there but ultimately just made the atmosphere more of a joke, I sat next to two crumpled halves of a Toad poster put together crudely with a crooked strip of tape. Management would play their political podcasts on high volume while everyone worked and if you asked them to turn it down they had all sorts of idiotic responses like "work your way up to management and you can play whatever you'd like" or "you should be paying attention to this". They shut and locked the doors the second the clock hit 8am and anyone who was literally even a second late for any reason missed the whole day and got a strike, three of which would get you fired, and other penalties included "referencing other games or series that you're not working on" even if you said something like "nice Zelda shirt" to someone in the break room which would result in getting called into a meeting with a manager and having a 15 minute conversation about how you're putting their security in jeapordy.
It was cool during lunch walking over to the main Nintendo building's cafeteria next door but the contrast in quality made going back to your cubicle all the more sad. The nicer building had big statues, happy employees, clean everything. It was like we didn't belong there.
I could go on.

Re: Nintendo Of America Restructuring Testing Department, Over 100 Contractor Jobs Reportedly Eliminated

GarlicGuzzler

At the very least, these were contractors who knew and agreed to this kinda stuff day one. The entire structure behind being a contractor is picking up and dumping jobs semi frequently. Still sucks, but they should know the drill by now given their line of work.

Now MY concern is... WHAT QUALITY TESTERS???? You are telling me 100 people had the chance to see, play, and DO something about the constant AI slop and stolen asset flip garbage clogging up the eshop??? I know the job isn't as simple as that, but... they DO know these are making the eshop an interactive mobile game ad nightmare, right???

I hope I misinterpreted what this position meant, because if I was right then I don't even wanna know what things will be like now