PSA: Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom News Channel Giving Out Free In-Game Items

Glad they found a solution to the duplication glitches…

Oh wow, now I'm rich!

Hahaha naaah, *insert that’s bait gif

Useless. Just useless.

At least give us some star fragments or something of value.

@Sisilly_G Exactly. I thought this would be a cool addition… until a crappy broadsword and a mushroom dropped on me! Absolutely useless.

Would have been fun if it was a mario mushroom as a little easter egg DLC.

Oh well.

What a useless gift when you get these in dozens just playing. I never understand why they don't give rarer items.

Still on version 1.0.0. Never updating and not had a single issue

Hylian Shroom and Soldier‘s Broadsword? That’s too generous.

You can't trick me out of my dupe glitch, Nintendo.

Add DLC to the game, and then we'll see if I update the game, but I quite enjoy not having to grind for materials.

How generous

Not even worth the 20 secs it would take to do this.

@Patendo If you want to play the DLC what will no doubt happen you will have no choice but to update.

I want to know who comes up with these "gifts" and who gives it the okay. Like "oh great idea Linda this will really get the kids jazzed!"
What's the harm in giving people a Biggoron sword or something kinda cool since it's just gonna break after spanking a couple bokoblins anyways?

A sword and a hylian shroom too?? Oh wow how generous!

Glass half-full here. This is probably just a test of the feature. Looking forward to something better next time, though I'm not really in need of anything. Playing normally already provides enough of everything.

I just finished the main story yesterday after 205 hours and I’m going to join the chorus of “Seriously Nintendo?” w/ that choice of free items. I don’t think you can leave the starting sky area w/o at least 2 dozen sky mushrooms. Make it something cool that you can explain to people, like a large zonal charge, which I never used in my 200+ hours, or a large battery that I used once. Or 3 sundiel to help prevent and restore from the gloom. Or a useful 3x10 bow. 10 arrows? 5 bombs? Not that hard Nintendo.🤷🏻‍♂️

Oh well maybe this was just a test of the system and every day they’ll give out better and better stuff, so that in 3 months they’ll finally get to something useful. 😂

one eraser?
I'm used to Nintendo betraying me,
I was in 'Nam...

Still better than what you got for collecting all the Koroks in BOTW.

DLC is coming but probably at the end of the year to allow more people to finish the game fully with glitches or not.

ROFL, ya ok Nintendo that's gonna entice me to upgrade to 1.2.0 for a broadsword and mushrooms lol.

What a bunch of door knobs, I get a stupid amount of these as is from scanning amiibos, so I don't care about 1 more of each jist for upgrading to 1.2.0 lol. Give something good and actually useful, otherwise just stop!

Splatoon 2 did this as well, but they gave somewhat useful items being 20 of a type of ability chunk

really Nintendo a Hylian shoom and a broadsword? i can find this at dozen on the game,if you give me a Diamond or one of the Champions weapons that would be a better free item

They're just testing the waters of this thing they've done in Breath of the Wild. I mean, if it were a Schema Stone of some awesome build, maybe it would be a good thing. Best thing I can think of that would go onto a schema stone would be a Hover Bike.

Both bad items and bad timing.

This should have started on launch week, not early July.

Who is this for? Certainly not us 1.1 players but even if I started the game over fully patched, a single Amiibo drop would be far more valuable.

Ah, to live in a time when video game players have so many privileges available to them that they fail to hear the entitlement in their naysays.

Pretty sure Nintendo already knew people would already have bajillions of what they gave away. Should they give away the rarer items instead? A bad move, as it devalues the items. You appreciate more what you worked hard for. Think of how this affected other games, like the constant shiny and legendary giveaways in the Pokémon games.

Just get the same items from amiibos? This assumes that everyone purchases (or are even able to purchase) amiibos.

Why can't we just be happy we received anything for free?

I don’t get the point of this. Why make the items 2 of the most common items in the game? It’s just worthless not fun.

Trolling Level = NINTENDO

Imagine if someone on the street handed you a mushroom and a sword.
Why does Nintendo get a pass for this behavior?
/s

God. I'm dying to know how much of the market refuses to update TOTK?🤣

I'm never updating! The game is too much of a time suck. I'm happy with duping. Have 150hrs. Still have two temples to play through.

1.1.1 FOREVER!🌈🌈

@calbeau “How am I supposed to get 999 diamonds and more money than I could ever possibly spend by ‘playing normally’?”

@ChromaticDracula
"It is dangerous to go alone, here take this sword and mushrooms."

@calbeau Gamers these days prefers instant gratification like what the glitches provide rather then the journey from natural gameplay to get said items so yeah as we see in a normal scenario some free random goodies is never a bad thing, but if it’s a tradeoff for not being able to artificially 100% the game in a week then it’s perceived as a negative.

@YoshiAngemon think a schema stone locked to that is an absurd expectation

@Patendo SAME

@WoomyNNYes I’m NEVER UPDATING!

Omg! Be still my heart! Enough, Ninty: I can't take the excitement of such extravagence!!!

This feature is definitely going to be used more in the future, this is just a dry run. They'll probably give out better weapons in the future, although keep in mind that this can be accessed right after starting, so they likely just don't want to debalance the game. With a Biggoron's Sword you could completely wreck Greatsky Island.

@Patendo im saying the same thing but what are we gonna do if DLC comes out???

@calbeau How do you devalue something that breaks after you swing it 20 times??

@SpaceboyScreams The rare items I was referring to are not the breakable weapons but the materials such as diamonds, star fragments, and the like.

@calbeau Shiny and Legendary PM were never devalued.

@Nymbosox at this point I will update if the DLC is worth it. But if I am honest, the DLC will need to add something different for me to get.

Lol things you find in every 2 meters in hyrule.
If it was something like the fierce deity sword ot the rare dragonsword.

Who tf is joining in on this for a single use mushroom and a weapon that is a more common sight in Hyrule than broken pottery shards? Does Nintendo need to be told the basics of the concept of a promotion...?

@calbeau first sensible reply among all that smugness. They did something similar when Hyrule Warriors Legends was getting gifts through spotpass, which ramped up to some very useful and generous gifts. Better to have people shrug and be mildly annoyed they can't get a paltry gift than a whole player base crying about a significant one if this feature has issues.

A+ trolling Nintendo. Well done.

Im good with my OG version, thank you very much

@Coalescence what even is a significant item in this game? The Hylian shield is all that comes to mind. Who's going to cry about not getting something that is worth a couple hundred rupees or breaks super fast anyways? The point is we'd at least be "oh okay, kinda cool" instead of "wtf why lol" like everyone is now. It's just bad marketing and makes them seem super cheap. But oh I guess we're all smug for being ungrateful lol

That red Switch tshirt for Link isn’t looking so bad now.

"Yo sorry we took away your ability to duplicate the rarest or most valuable materials. Have a sword and a mushroom"

Like, I get having to patch out stuff in the game, but at least give us something like a star fragment, or a diamond. These items are just trash

Are these free items useless? Yes.

Is it possible to beat the game without a dupe glitch? Also yes. It might be grindy to get 100% completion, but to simply get enough gear and armour upgrades to beat Ganondorf, it is very doable without a ton of grinding, just in the normal course of playing the game.

If you like the dupe glitch and that's fun for you, great! But I don't know why people act like the game is tediously grindy without it.