@rallydefault
It is meant to encourage digital. But it's not that they're giving less for carts so much as it is they're giving more for digital.
Like the Digital Deluxe program in the Wii U era, Nintendo wants to incentivise digital purchases. One of the ways they do this is via gold coins at a rate of 5% earned for digital games. Frankly, I'm surprised they give anything at all for physical. But I'll take it. 1% is still 1% more than 0%, and when added to the pile of other discounts and cash back rewards via store cards, CC and pre-order reward incentives, it all adds up.
Psalms 22:16 (1,000 yrs before Christ)
They pierced My hands and feet
Isaiah 53:5 (700 yrs before Christ)
He was pierced for our transgressions
It all adds up if you buy physical and digital indie games.
I bought Mario and rabbids DLC. Octo expansion DLC. Captain toad DLC all with just gold coins
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
@JaxonH
Yea, it does still add up. I usually only purchase eShop games or expansions from money I earn from my physical games. I just wait for crazy sales and I usually can purchase a few eShop games a year with just gold points.
@DarthNocturnal I don't think there is. You can only claim the gold points from a retail copy in the first 2 years from release so @Shadowthrone probably bought older second hand games which were past that point.
There’s not much point in saving up your gold coins as they expire in a year, it’s better to spend them as soon as you have got them.
The problem is the decision with what games that you'd want that make them useful for discount? Most of the time, they are useless if for someone like me just doesn't care much of digital.
Maybe if Nintendo were to like make them something that you'd only get with gold points...and platinum does a lot of that.
I save my gold points until I have like $30-60 and then get an entire game for free. And that happens long before they expire. If 6 months or so goes by and I haven’t used them, I’ll blow whatever I have just in case.
Of course, I went full digital this generation so I build a lot more coins up, plus my failure to let go of physical only stacks more coins, even if they are less than digital. Still, it all adds up and I do actually save a fair bit of scratch up at least twice a year.
OK, so.. the final 2 Smash characters may have leaked.
A previous leak that foretold Pyra and Mythra is now coming to light, and, assuming it's correct (which is plausible given Pyra and Mythra) it seems the last 2 will be Crash Bandicoot and Monster Hunter
Now, this may turn out to be wrong. Who can say. We know how the rumor and leak game works.
But it definitely seems possible, at the very least. And if it is true, the rest of the leak is actually pretty exciting. Soundtrack discs with one song for every character in the roster available on My Nintendo following a concert.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. I sure hope it's true though. My goodness do I hope it's true! It does seem as though the leaker, if legit, is involved in the music side of things. It explains how they deduced the final characters from the song list, and how they know about the symphony and soundtrack discs. If they add Proof of a Hero (Monster Hunter theme song) to Smash it'll be the most epic battle music of all time.
@JaxonH Fascinating. I did debate whether I'd want the possibility of having the surprise ruined, but I'm probably never going to get the DLC 2 pack anyways. That particular debate lasted about three seconds.
If I have enough eShop credit left over I'll absolutely get Pyra and Mythra. Xenoblade 2's my least favourite game in the series, but it's still a really good game.
OK, so.. the final 2 Smash characters may have leaked.
A previous leak that foretold Pyra and Mythra is now coming to light, and, assuming it's correct (which is plausible given Pyra and Mythra) it seems the last 2 will be Crash Bandicoot and Monster Hunter
Now, this may turn out to be wrong. Who can say. We know how the rumor and leak game works.
But it definitely seems possible, at the very least. And if it is true, the rest of the leak is actually pretty exciting. Soundtrack discs with one song for every character in the roster available on My Nintendo following a concert.
I guess we'll have to wait and see. I sure hope it's true though. My goodness do I hope it's true! It does seem as though the leaker, if legit, is involved in the music side of things. It explains how they deduced the final characters from the song list, and how they know about the symphony and soundtrack discs. If they add Proof of a Hero (Monster Hunter theme song) to Smash it'll be the most epic battle music of all time.
If this is true, it does seem strange to me that Pyra was revealed two weeks ago. It would have instead been a great opportunity to reveal either Crash or Monster Hunter, as they both have games coming up (hence why they've both been massively speculated). The concert idea is pretty cool though and I kinda do hope it's true.
They're the names that fans have randomly been throwing around so I don't buy it as being a real leak. Hopefully the real characters are a lot more interesting, not that I've bought any of the DLC anyway.
Was going through the list of upcoming games, and noticed something called Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace. I thought it'd just be a digital version of the classic board game (which wouldn't be a bad thing; time requirement aside, Arkham Horror is one of my favorite board games), but it seems to feature turn-based combat and some limited amount of exploration? It looks pretty cool. Hopefully it reviews well.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
@BruceCM Yeah. They typically just do straight digital conversions of board games, so it's interesting to see some sort of narrative-driven RPG experience coming from them.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
Nastume hasn't had a clue what it's been doing with the Harvest Moon license for quite some time, so no shock there. They seem to think that every entry must cram as many systems into it as possible: Shape every speck of land! Move your farm onto a mountaintop! Build everything ever created!
And now XSEED seems to have laid an egg with Olive Town if the Japanese complaints are to be believed.
Meanwhile one dude continues to eat everyone's lunch with Stardew Valley. Some of these big devs stand to learn a lot from fan passion.
It's like... dang. Harvest Moon was awesome at first because it was focused. Simple. And the successful sequels just gave everything more depth. Different seeds to sow, livestock to raise. Better dialogue and more and detailed events and festivals. Ok, maybe some Harvest Sprite stuff as long as it's not too crazy. Really cool towns and people to interact with. More of the mines was always fun. That's the stuff that kept fans playing. Almost any Harvest Moon fan will say their favorite game in the series is from the first half-dozen games, nearly guaranteed. For me, the series was dead beyond HM64, but I'm especially pessimistic lol
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