Reminder: Disney Speedstorm Is Finally Free-To-Play On Switch

That's good, but whenever I start it, the game gives me a "failed to login" error. Is anyone having the same problem with this?

Congrats to everyone who also just held out and waited until the free to play game actually became free. We did it!

Already tried it yesterday; time will tell how consistently I can attend, but the tracks and mechanics are quite fun. Hopefully the character roster will grow formidable, too, even if it probably stays along the lines of Disney Infinity in its focus on human and anthro characters. Putting Simba or Bolt behind the wheel might be an awkward endeavour... but perhaps I underestimate the team's inventiveness here.😄

My patience is about to be rewarded!

This looks like fun! And with MK Tour ending, I could use a new racer!

No I don't support games that are basically slotmachines aimed at kids.

Time to download, finish 3 random races and uninstall! Boi I cant wait for the weekend

@sanderev I already said it somewhere but I feel like its a good life advice so

Its much better to show kids how hard gambling is before they gamble away their livers to the mafia over texas holdem.

I stopped buying lottery tickets because of Genshin. Once you see how low the 1 to 200 chance is, the chance of winning anything sounds completely impossible thus revealing those lotteries as the state approved scams they are.

@Princess_Lilly

Aye and start them drinking alcohol and smoking too so they can see the negative effects of those before they can do it legally.

@SBandy1 yeah I know it sounds counterintuitive, but look at this - in gacha, there is no risk. You get primos from playing the game, open the boxes and the worst thing is disappointment.

In case of alcohol and tobacco - addictive substances

Gscha games have no addictive substances

@Princess_Lilly

No physical substance but still addicting, just like actual gambling.

Any game with those mechanics should be age rated appropriately and kept away from kids.

When they turn 18 then they can decide to throw their lives away as they wish.

@Princess_Lilly "Gscha games have no addictive substances"

Sadly, this is not true.

@SBandy1 as I said, it actually deters from real life gambling once you understand how bad the odds are.

But even if we assume that it can take place of actual real life gambling, being addicted to opening a couple of lootboxes per month for a currency you get for playing a game is as harmful as being addicted to a cup of coffee in the morning. And it's replacing an actually harmful habit. 15 minutes of doing daily quests for a lootbox or 2 is hardly "throwing your life away" if gaming is already your hobby.

@sanderev please elaborate you made me curious

@Princess_Lilly

I don't accept your hypothesis.

All it does is prepare kids for a life of gambling by letting the claws sink in even earlier when they should be nowhere near those kind of "surprise mechanics".

The same as with alcohol, smoking and drugs.

We shall just have to agree to disagree on this one.

@SBandy1 I guess I could agree that someone who is already terrible with their finances could be tempted like this, but I'm willing to assume that such individual will just go bankrupt one way or another, it's a case of human stupidity. Take away the screwdriver so he can't accidentally gouge his eyes out and he'll just hit himself with a hammer.

I'd also like to say one more thing that just came to me - in money gambling, you want to "come back on top" so that you have more money. In gacha, you just want to buy a commodity with as little virtual game currency as your luck allows you. I have bought a pack of lootboxes for Princess Connect gacha when an important character (Neneka) came out

Is paid about 80$ for sparking her and I even though the EN server went under like 6 months later, I do not regret it one bit. I have a fantastic memory with that game and having gacha characters actually feels like having friends. I can totally understand buying a character even for a full game price once in 5 years or so.

It's about getting a commodity, you can't "come back on top", so it's a completely different thing.

I won't try to argue my statement any more if it doesn't appeal to you, though, so I agree about agreeing to disagree.

Cool cool they've stopped swindling people out of cash to beta test or whatever their weird paid early access shenanigans were.

Will give it a try now that it's free, as was always intended.

@SBandy1 That sounds like 5 star advice from a 5 star man.

I sunk a solid few hours into this game yesterday. I'm thoroughly enjoying it! I haven't even done any online races yet, I've just been playing the wealth of single player content. Unlocking rewards has been very satisfying, and so far I haven't felt like the game is trying to force my hand into buying microtransactions. It's fun.

So, I'm pretty new to owning a Switch. Why could I not find speedstorm featured in some way on the eShop? I looked through all the menus, just out of curiosity, and it wasn't listed anywhere. I had to search to find it. Shouldn't it be elevated somewhere?

@Gryffin “Why could I not find speedstorm featured in some way on the eShop?”

Maybe Nintendo is mad they featured the game in a Direct in Feb 2022 with a stated release date of that summer but then the game didn’t come out until a year later on all platforms and the free to play game was $30-$70 to play? I think Nintendo holds grudges. Or maybe they don’t want to promote a FTP game while trying to sell season passes to MK8? 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Not_Soos Same. And while the game isn’t forcing anything it certainly is promoting buying. I think the shop started w/ only 3 tabs on the left and then it added 3 more as I progressed, finished chapter 2, and the shop kept adding stuff to buy. And a NEW indicator would pop up next to the word shop, luring me in.

I'd argue this isn’t a gambling addiction game like a few people above are saying, it’s more akin to enticing kids into a small toy store by offering them a small free gift, then once inside the store keeps getting bigger and bigger, expanding in front of the kids eyes, and nothing is real money it’s all Oompa Loompa tokens, so what’s the harm? Was people buying every single SSB amiibo b/c they had started buying and now feel the need to finish their collection gambling?🤷🏻‍♂️

One thing I do wish the game would do is list where we finished in each race like they list what we do w/ the characters. I finished chapter 2 yesterday and won every race the first try except 1 where I came in 2nd. I’d go back to redo it to try and come in first but I doubt I’ll remember which one it was, and since they don’t keep track why care? I suppose I’ll have to grind them at some point, or play online, but maybe I just won’t? We’ll see.

Nice that it's free to play, I hope we get some Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, and Robin Hood reps.

it's not bad. only got to Donald so far.

It's an online-only type of game. Ech.

@TrueBlueYoshi Never mind, it's working for me now. And yeah, I'm glad that I waited for it to be F2P instead of buying it.

Thanks, but I have F-Zero 99 to keep me busy lol

I was NOT expecting Disney song rock remixes

@Serpenterror yeah and hopefully they add in characters from Disney shows like gravity falls.

@Princess_Lilly I would love to give that game a try so hopefully cygames brings it back in global.

played it, and then uninstalled it when i got the wing and realized that it's just cosmetics and does nothing to the car's stats.

@Greatluigi I wouldnt wait if I were you. Crunchyroll bought rights to run the EN server and they just cut the project after like 2 years. I domt think anyone would try to bring it to the west knowing that. Greedy Crunchyroll, got a gold mine and they axed it because there werent enough diamonds along the way.

Best thing you can do is get qooapp and install the Japanese version. Bear in mind Japanese there can be tough I ve been learning Japanese for quite some time and I cant really follow most of the time

Well played it for awhile...it's pretty trash lol. Feel bad for the folks they duped into paying full price for a pay to win knockoff kart racer.

Horrible small character pool at $15 a pop, has the UI of a mobile game. The musical not bad at least.

I did find it amusing that if you don't finish an online match, it doesn't exist the game or anything, you'll just be sitting there alone on the track when you come back lol.

It’s fun! Nothing mind blowing here, but the mechanics are enjoyable, and the presentation is fun, and I love Disney characters!

It's a pity it's full of Disney characters 😆
I try not to touch Disney basically out of principle these days, with the way they've run practically all their IP into the ground.

@Princess_Lilly "Its much better to show kids how hard gambling is before they gamble away their livers to the mafia over texas holdem."

I think I agree with you on this one but I will say, from my own experience, the thing that actually turned me off gambling was being so invested in video games (and other nerd hobbies) that the mechanics behind gambling just seemed so uninteresting by comparison.

When i turned 18, pressing a single button on a pokie machine and hoping to win was so boring compared to the arcade games I had been playing at the time. Playing cards was never gonna beat Magic: the Gathering.

So I guess what I'm saying is; If they made gambling mechanically stimulating, I might be in trouble...

Wishing they could add playable Wall-e, Carl or Russell from Up!, Ralph, Vanellope, King Candy/Turbo, Scrooge McDuck or The Incredibles.

Really glad I held off on getting any of the packs. So far the game doesn't feel like I need microtransactions to enjoy the game, unlike other F2P games like Pokémon Shuffle.

Guess it's time to try it then. Patience rewarded.

@FineLerv Mechanically stimulating gambling, that's a rare thought. Idk I mean you don't gamble for fun, gambling is for people who want to get rich quick. The fun part would be spending money but gamblers don't have money. They have debts.

Isn;t MTG gambling though with the booster packs?

@Princess_Lilly "Isn;t MTG gambling though with the booster packs?"

I guess it is if you're aiming for something specific, but back in '94 was just playing with what I had. Nowadays, you can just buy anything outright from your local hobby shop so I haven't bought a randomised packet in 20 years!

@FineLerv yeah thats fair. I used to make whole decks that way.

But I still got 6 boosters for pokemon violet 151 expansion pack because old pokemon.