Nintendo's Selling Out - Wii U Forum

Bowser908 · 2015-07-19T05:55:56+00:00

I haven't been focusing too much on recent controversial Nintendo practices, but I've learned more about them in the past two weeks or so. I'm going to try to articulate all of the negative reaction to this simply. First we have Amiibo. Little toys that use NFC to interact with the Wii U or 3DS to unlock characters or content. It's basically Nintendo Skylanders. It's obvious why this is bad. Amiibo puts parts of games behind paywalls, forcing people to go out and buy a loving toy to enjoy content that is on the disc. When I buy a disc, Nintendo, I want the whole game. Not a "base game" or a "starter pack", but the full game, a full experience, and no paying for anything else to enjoy the content I paid for. I'm not going to buy a game for $60 to find that, yay, to enjoy half of the game I have to shell out $20 to get figures that are likely not even in a store near me. Not only that, but you see idiots who actually bough Amiibo, and they actually try to defend it, out of mostly blind fanboyism. Nintendo has two free-to-play games on the 3DS eShop, Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Rumble World. You can still enjoy these games free, of course, and most people don't buy jewels or whatnot in the game. But this represents a huge moral lapse on Nintendo's part. Even if a pooparific half-baked Pokemon version of Bejeweled is free, just offering the option to "pay to advance faster" is condescending to users, and hiding content from users to buy is a very un-Nintendo move for Nintendo. It's disgusting, to say the least. The other one is DLC. I'm very much against additional content in the form of paid DLC, no matter how much of a "deal" it is. Smash characters are horrendously overpriced for something that should have been a simple update, and the Mii Fighter costume poopadoodle should just have been an unlockable included within the game. I'm not going to shell out money for these characters that existed in past iterations, or costumes that are only cosmetic. Now, I've seen people argue that the MK8 DLC was a good deal. Not really. Nintendo either should have either provided a free update if the additional content was created after the game was released, include it with the game if they, as is likely, developed it with the game and planned beforehand to sell it as DLC, or just put them on the idea list for Mario Kart NX. There is no reason to extend and adorn a finished game with extra "content" you sell. I expect what is on the disk to be all of Mario Kart 8 and all of their development effort on it. The free Mercades-Benz DLC was also terrible. New Super Luigi U, being DLC, seeing the content offered, seems to indicate this is something Nintendo created while they were developing New Super Mario Bros U, and what they should have done is put on the disc from the beginning or just plan a New Super Luigi Bros for a later date. And so on and so forth for Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Awakening, etc. They are going completely against their earlier statements and promises regarding mobile and DLC. I wonder how valiantly the late Satoru Iwata fought against this, because it was obviously not enough, as he lost in the end. I myself will not be buying any Amiibo, DLC, nor will I play any free-to-play games. Nintendo is learning the wrong lessons here, and we need to vote with our dollars to indicate that this is something we won't stand for.

Topic: Nintendo's Selling Out

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OutCold
Sun 19th Jul 2015

Ahhhhhhhhh totally to late to the show. I'm gana use it anyway for the OP'r but I think it will be over his head lol.

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NintendoFan64
Sun 19th Jul 2015

Aaaaand done. I just sent an email to the administration, along with a link to this thread. You should be dealing with them shortly, @Bowser908.

There is nothing here...except for the stuff I just typed...

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crimsontadpoles
Sun 19th Jul 2015

Seems like I missed a lot here. It's always annoying to see someone that's so adamant that they're correct. I think that amiibo is mostly handled fine except for Splatoon, but I'll happily respect the opinions of anyone who disagrees.

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LzWinky
Sun 19th Jul 2015

I think we've had our fun here folks. Show's over

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