Topic: The Nintendo Switch Thread

@rallydefault The weirdest thing about all these loot boxes. They're always in games that will succeed regardless. Shadow of war was gonna sell,it has a fanbase that loved the first one and Star Wars. Well anything with the name Star Wars will make money. So it's pure greed at this point and it's sad to see people defend all these practices. But that's modern gaming for you.

Pffft, not like anyone really cares. xD
It's still my personal Twitter account, at least I didn't go Rated R on here. xD

@MsJubilee Yep, just look at how the media sometimes defends it - especially certain big sites out there. They often side on what the publisher says that it's due to the increasing costs in development and marketing of games. If it was the case then that $3.5 billion Activision made in a single year just from loot boxes and micro transactions alone would significantly cover any development costs for the next few years.

I don't like it either, yet if they make that much money then there's a market for them. I wouldn't leave that money on the table either.

However, I'm not sure how much brand damage can be quantified out of this. Because if the more loyal customers and buyers of your games stop thinking highly of you, that might cost you more in the long run, with a solid base of people no longer being vocal in their support.

So who knows? But I don't like the in game purchases, and I don't like that there are apparently enough people ok with them for these businesses to exist.

At least I'm not alone in this sense.

This generation of games with all the dlc and microtransactions can be blamed on the millennials.. [removed]. I don't spend my money on these things because i want them to end... the only things i find acceptable are free to play games and games that offer real expansion packs like the witcher 3. Like blizzard always did with their games. But if a company tries to nickel and dime me ill try to steal from them the same they try to steal from me.

[sub]@Inertiacreep Mind your language,
you've broken the rules quite a few times already - Octane[/sub]

@Octane So that word you removed in that context was a bad word? He didn't refer to anyone as being that.

@Spanjard Oh yeah.
Skyrim for people who love... Well, Skyrim.
L.A. Noire for people who love mystery.
Resident Evil for those who love horror/TPS'.
And Rime for people who like Open world games.

That's gonna be an awesome week for Switch TBH.

@Spoony_Tech It can be offensive in some countries, but this wasn't the first time he broke the rules. Anyway, if he has a problem with the edit, he can contact us directly.

Seems we're getting a demo for Heros of the Monkey Tavern soon. It says demo available on its shop icon, I thought that meant it was available now but sadly not.

Also there's going to be a big Halloween sale which runs from the 24th through to the 2nd November. Looking forward to see what games will be included in that.

Today marks a year of the reveal of Nintendo Switch, which was know back then as "NX".

@OorWullie A Halloween sale on the Switch eShop? Cool. Guess I'll have to find some spare pennies to spend somewhere, lol! Where was this announced?

Went and got my Wife a Switch today, walked out the shop with Neon Switch, Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8, Zelda, Mario/Rabbids and a case for £299.

Error on the tills put 2 of the games through for 1p each. Said they would honour it for me, but took the 2 games off the shelves while they fixed.

Cashier asked me "You don't mind paying 1p for a game do you??" I told her she was driving a hard bargain. haha!!

I felt like I was robbing the place at that price

@SuperJoon Wow! That is an incredible deal. Been pondering about getting a second Switch and a second copy of Splatoon 2 (for the wife) myself a lot recently. She constantly wants to play it when Grizzo hiring is on for Salmon Run. Where did you manage to buy yours from if you don't mind me asking? I know I won't get games for 1p but even still you seem to have gotten a terrific price for the actual system and a game, case etc.

@Lroy I saw it on the news tab. It says there will be a Skela-tonne of games on offer so I guess that means a fair few.

@SuperJoon That's superb. Wish stuff like that would happen to me haha.

@OorWullie rubbing hands with anticipation - (looks forlornly at empty wallet) Ha! Ha!

@Lroy - It was in Tesco, I also have staff discount so that helped a bit, think I was just lucky with the price and the tills messing up the bundle. It was meant to be Switch/Lego City/Lego Worlds for £299... Which still is a bargain in it'self, but they didn't have the 2 games in stock, so replaced them for me, which sent the tills doolally and priced the 2 games swapped for 1p each. Bargain!

@OorWullie I know I couldn't believe my luck when it went through at 1p... haha!

@OorWullie Looks at near empty bank account Yeah I might be able to afford a game or two.

@MsJubilee
Yea, I agree - a lot of these loot box games lately are "too big to fail." They're going to sell millions even if every copy comes with a smack to the face.

...So apparently the only way for me to record more Switch videos, I have to use the TV's speakers now. In other words, crappy sound...guess no more Thumper videos from me then. (unless you want to see the game with no sound)

That anniversary thing have me think that i have 8 Switch games already, i play still mostly 3DS, not bad at all ^^