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My patience with Phil Spencer has officially run out. He's a slug just like Kotick.

Microsoft went from "for the gamers, crossplay yay!" To "everyone needs to buy an Xbox to play the games they like".

@Shiesty which is the problem, since it's not even confirmed. It stemmed from the first person who speculated something. By the time it reaches the last person, the speculation has circulated to the point that that person considers it fact even though it may very well not be.

Then again if the article wasn't worded the way it was then this wouldn't even be an issue. Looks like they definitely coaxed the conversation to this pointless angle, instead of it being a PSA to pick up this game if you're interested before it leaves the shop.

@Tourtus I might be a bit too cynical from seeing people who are actually very serious when they write stuff like this but...The second comment in on this very article doesn't look like speculation or a joke.

Ok, guess I'm sold. Seems like I can finally leave the trauma that the DS version gave me behind.

1st person: "Take this as a grain of salt but I bet it's probably getting removed because of X"

2nd person: "I read on this site that the game is being removed because of X"

3rd person: "Woooow ok, the game is being removed because of X??? More Political agenda nonsense!!"

Oh how quickly the cycle of disinformation can spread once a few people start trying to guess at the reason something is being removed. If we don't know, we don't know... that's it.

I feel like I've already ran through the game too many times to care about a switch version. Now if they released an updated Persona 3....

Modern gaming is dead.

I'm sure without the experts there to verify Logan wouldn't be able to tell the difference anyways.

Why people choose to make mods in games owned by a company that actively hate their fanbase is beyond me. Not to mention that said fans will constantly side with the one that hates them.

Pretty hard to argue between a good deal and a bad one though. Is the outrage over the expansion pack gone already? Are we now cool over paying such a big price increase then?

I remember playing a version of this off the DS. Is this collection actually good or as bad as that one was?

@mario9785ify Xenoblade 2 was Pokemon enough for me anyways, they included the "gotta catch em all" element pretty well!

@UltimateOtaku91 From what I've seen of Ubisoft's example it would be something like a helmet with a unique serial number on it. Don't expect these "one of a kind unique NFT skins" to be anything incredible. For all we know your skin could be different because it has a 1 instead of a 2 in it.

Let's not forget that the publishers don't want to waste too much money actually designing unique outfits that only 1 person will ever own...and if they do then don't expect that you'll ever be able to afford it.

Probably thought the avengers game was going to be a huge success too. Get rid of this clown.

Can't believe I only now found out about deku deals. I'm definitely going to be using this place a lot from now on.

We can leave him alone, question is can Nintendo?

Just some dude flaunting his wealth again. I guess once you have that much "F you" money, you start to lose touch with reality and practicality.

Another example that the fossils still running Nintendo have no idea how the internet actually works.

Ok I'm back after playing it for a while and I must say... it's incredibly annoying to get ad after ad everytime you hit 2048. Especially when your score is getting high and you get 2048 with every other shot. It's egregiously monetized and this dude is laughing his way to the bank. Probably doubting why he even put that much effort into Balan.

I miss the days I could buy a bargain bin game for like 5 cents on the eShop.

It's just a 2048 variant but it's nice to see him do something on his own time I guess. Not really great that he's trying to nickle and dime with the ads but eh, he's hussling. I can respect that.

But we did see BOTW2. Nothing new...but we saw it, for a few seconds.

"The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates."

I'd say this extends to suing people too, which Nintendo absolutely loves to do. They want to be the Disney of Video Games...and just as restrictive and brutal to their consumers.

@HeadPirate I've played plenty and I mean plenty of games like this to know exactly how this one is going to turn out. If it makes you feel better I can download the game play it for an hour and see the same mechanics I always see in freemium games that drag the experience down and then come back here and give you my exact same assessment of this game.

Then again I find popular games that people love like Genshin Impact to also be absolute garbage so one can assume that I might have "bad taste" but these freemium games are always trash to me after giving so many a try. I don't even like games that do F2P "right" like Apex, so there's that. Just give me the full complete game without any extra monetization and I'll be happy. I hate the freemium business model in all its forms.

@HeadPirate You seem quite keen on defending this game so it'd be best if I just told you that I'm biased when it comes to these freemium gacha games. Every one of these that I try from Fire Emblem to disgaea might be interesting in concept and try to replicate what makes the franchise good but the gacha mechanic tends to become such a deterrent that I fail to find any fun in them. I get told "you can do anything without having to spend money" but that comes at the expense of either my time via constant grinding or being forced to use "optimal setups" instead of the way i'd like to play. No freemium mobile version of a game that I've played in the past has ever satisfied me in the same way that just playing the main games do and from the looks of things this won't either. It looks like another daily check in chorefest.

So to answer your question...no, I haven't played it and no I don't intend to. It's all my opinion with my own bias, which we've all got and that's all good.

@HeadPirate

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nintendoenthusiast.com/fantasy-life-online-is-shutting-down-in-japan-on-december-15/amp/

Looks like it wasn't great enough to keep from shutting down.

Now that it's a freemium game it's not going to be worth playing unless you like virtual chores.

If the steam deck holds up to what it promises then yes I'll be leaving my switch behind whenever I head out somewhere. I'll only play the switch occasionally when an exclusive comes out every few months but if the steam deck will play third party games better then I see no reason to continue purchasing inferior handheld versions.

Bloodrayne's got a lot of... features...that have been left behind since that era.

For the final update Sakurai should bring back tripping and then just walk away. Would be hilarious.

@Greatluigi microtransactions tend to be a scam regardless where they're implemented. They're predatory in nature, to the point that all these free to play games make more money than the big AAA huge budget releases. You'd actually be better off paying for the game once than you do spending it on a F2P.

And if you aren't paying with money, you're paying with time. A lot of time.

As usual the "I don't mind the microtransactions" crowd is out here making gaming as a whole worse off. Just keep playing Genshin Impact or something, Danganronpa did NOT need this kind of cash grab.

I don't know what's worse, the billionaire making money off other people's work or the puppets who have been conditioned to think that there's nothing wrong with that.

Whoa whoa wait a minute...

Don't lump Wario's Woods in with the B tier puzzlers.

@Cooe Oh I'm sure Phil personally did all those things. Yes, it was just ol gamer Phil and nobody else. This is the problem with the gaming industry, we think Phil is Xbox. We this Sakurai is Smash Bros. We don't think about all the actual workers that make things happen behind the scenes.

But nope, I'm sure it was all Phil.

Phil Spencer just utters out buzzwords he hears gamers talking about as if he's in support but he never actually DOES anything to help.

I don't even really understand the point of this article. Animal Crossing and GTA are two wildly different games, wildly different experiences. What's even the point of attempting to compare the two, the arguments just don't make sense either way...

I remember when we used to get full complete games at launch that didn't need a "day one" patch to actually work, or needed to wait a few weeks for patches that removed bugs. Every day I see my favorite hobby getting treated worse and worse while people continue to defend getting less and less.

If I were a dev on this game I'd be embarrassed to see fans nearly outdoing me. Then again if I'm working for Rockstar I'm probably focused on making more GTA Online so people can either grind hours or pay to just access the good content instead of doing anything new and exciting. It wouldn't even be my fault as the dev...players just won't stop playing and spending in GTAO.

@DTfeartheBEARD "A lot of the problems these games have (pop in/Frame drops, ect)are also in the original PS2 versions"

.... you'd think the "definitive edition" would have at least been able to make the games run smoothly, at least fix the problems that were the result of pushing the hardware to the limits. They are nearly or over 20 years old! Back before Rockstar threatened legal action on modders they had these games running much better than these embarrassing ports.

Looks like a free mod project that Rockstar decided to charge full price for.

Goes to show that they're putting even less effort into making the games...but who cares, you pokemon fans will eat it up regardless.

Probably just gonna be another mobile game.

For all the rage, that's a lot of subscribers. What tools consumers are nowadays.

All the more reason to make a GameCube mini and toss all the games that are now super expensive to purchase onto it.

It's just such a Nintendo move to bundle a game with the service that many people don't care about. I can imagine a couple of old suits sitting in an office saying "throw in animals crossing. Everyone loves animals crossing."

@GannonBanned
In Japan the term Gacha is used for those machines that you put a few quarters in and you get a random toy. It's become a popular phrase here used to describe the similar idea where you put in a few dollars to get a random character in mobile games. It's become such a popular term that most games just straight up call it Gacha too.

@WhiteUmbrella

Nintendo: "On sale"? What is that? Is that when you sell something for a limited time and then remove it from marketplaces? Oh yeah, we do "sales" too.

@Gwynbleidd Sometimes I feel like the people that defend Nintendo are worried that someone is going to come and take away their switch if Nintendo suffers some backlash for a bad decision.