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@blindsquarel It would fix it until 2032 when the switch eshop shuts down and people start saying Nintendo doesn’t give a crap about the fans again.

The 10 year window ends in 2027.

@ModdedInkling VC is just.a digital copy as well and will eventually be lost too. VC doesn’t ‘fix’ anything’ as long as the console stores keep getting shut down.

@Joeynator3000 You know Nintendo...the Virtual Console would be a super easy fix to this...just let us buy the damn retro games instead of a subscription service

I don't think 'buying' vs 'subscription' is the issue here. The VC wouldn't fix this, if they could just put all the games on VC then they could put them on NSO and you would still have access to them on the Switch either way.

Can you explain how VC would fix this?

@Savage_Joe Steam helped kill the physical market on PC, it wasn't born of the lack of physical games. Do you even know what you are talking about?

@korosanbo Subscription services are all the rage now, even my local carwash is offering a monthly subscription.

@Savage_Joe No, they can be compared since they both sell digital downloads of video games. What next, are you going to tell me that Nintendo doesn't compete with Sony and Microsoft because Nintendo has different hardware?

@Savage_Joe Are you saying that what Steam does isn't possible on consoles? People probably shouldn't be leasing/renting games on consoles then.

@sword_9mm Why would disc based games need to get a license from a server?

@jrt87 Just buy a flash cart or install custom firmware on your system at that point.

You know it's funny, people who just want to play the legal way never want to venture in that direction but once they do.....

@Jeronan Microsoft is showing the way, let's hope they stay the course. They did say that they were done with Xbox and 360 BC.

Edit: Sadly, Microsoft also showed the way to paid online play.

@Jeronan So if the Switch store shuts down in the future

It will, there is no doubt about it.

its games not carrying over with full backwards compatibility to their next console

...and that store will shut down in the future too unless they change the way they handle their eshops. For example, Steam still works if you change your hardware or your OS.

@BloodNinja I'll look into it.

@Williamfuchs420 Legally it's not, because you agreed to the Terms of Service, that long wall of text that you didn't read and clicked "I agree" anyway.

The button you press to get the game should not say 'Buy' or 'Purchase', it should say 'Lease' or 'Rent'.

@Ventilator On PC you have the option to remove DRM on most purchased games anyway.

If breaking the DRM is fair play in this comparison then emulating Wii U and 3DS games would count. I am talking about staying legal.

@victordamazio Also, when you buy physical, technically you still don't own the game, only a license to use it

You own your copy of Chrono Trigger on the SNES just like you own your car. You can play it, sell it, loan it out and even destroy it. What you can't do is make illegal copies and sell them but that doesn't mean you don't own your copy, it just means that you are not the copyright holder.

if you buy a Mario game, not only you can't make your own Mario games

You can't make your own Mario games regardless of whether you bought any Mario game. It's because you don't own the IP. However, if you do buy Super Mario World on the SNES, you own that copy and can do what you want with it as pointed out above.

@BloodNinja Not on Steam you won't but Steam has proven itself reliable. Steam games require you to be logged into Steam and offline mode is not a permanent mode.

Any promises made that your Steam game will not away if Steam shut down are false promises, Steam doesn't have that kind of power over games owned by other companies.

GOG is currently free of DRM so you're safe there....for now at least.

The more I hear, the less I trust buying digital from anyone besides Steam or GOG.

@speedyb The PS3 came out in 2006, the 3DS in 2011 and the Wii U in 2012. The PS3 is comparable to the Wii and they already closed that store down. There really should be some consumer protections.

@Amsterdamsters Explain 1 way that Nintendo has ripped their customers off. They're not stealing your money and you don't have to buy their products. Grow up.

Do you believe that you can only be ripped off if you are forced to buy a product or service?

Yeah right, they can be promised anything but once they are owned by another company, that promise won't mean anything.

@jamesRainbowBoy The repro cart is for the GBA. I should have made that clear.

@jamesRainbowBoy Probably Nintendo wants to make edits, and Itoi won't let them. It's a question of who blinks first, I guess.

You probably just made this up.

Anyway, why don't you folks just buy the repro cart of Mother 3 with the English translation and quit begging for this game? It's as bad as the Half Life 3 begging once was.

So from what I played, you have to catch the same Pokemon multiple times, wait for a Pokemon to use a certain move and other tedious things like that. That's the gameplay people are praising?

@MS7000 At the very least, it would take a year or two to remake the game even if they added no extra content AND then it may not run on the Switch. Just be happy it’s coming soon and that it’s only $20.

@MS7000 Like Final Fantasy 7, Chrono Cross is a large PS1 game, Trials of Mana was an SNES game. A full remake would have likely taken years.

@TotalHenshin Don't insert yourself into other people's conversations

If you want to have a private chat, take it to PM's, this is a public forum.

@TotalHenshin Is there an inventory patch?

@Browny You should be a politician, you have a way of dancing around questions without answering them. In this case, I am guessing that you do not like the inventory system either and based on what you have said, you try not to use it much by only keeping the puzzle items in your inventory.

@Browny The system works as the developer intended.

This doesn't mean it's not bad.

From what I can tell, your issue with it is that if you wanted to pick up everything you find, you'd have to go through quite a few hoops to do so.

You're inventory fills up on it's own, from enemy drops. Then you have to manually clean it out often to make room for stuff you need. Clean it out, 1 item at a time and many many times throughout the course of the game. Tell me, do you find the inventory management in this game to be fun? I hope so because you are required to do a lot of it.

@Browny Or you could have just... you know, kept all plot critical items in your inventory at all times?

Well that would leave no room for anything else. How is that NOT a broken inventory system?

@Browny I'm sorry you had to press a few extra buttons to throw away a cookie or hamburger just to pick up... another hamburger.

Bit of a mountain out of a molehill, don't you think?

No, the inventory system is my biggest complaint about the game. Since you didn't tell the rest of the class what you have to do if you don't have the puzzle item you need when the time comes, I'll do it.

If you don't have the puzzle item you need you need to walk all the way back to a town to find a phone to call your sister (you may have to pay for the phone call) and wait for her to arrive (and pay her too). Then walk all the way back to spot where the puzzle was.

Now if that isn't fun, then I don't know what is....LOL

@Browny I'm sorry you had to press a few extra buttons to throw away a cookie or hamburger just to pick up... another hamburger.

Hundred of times....

For 1994, this was just bad inventory design. Also, Earthbound requires you to carry items that help solve puzzles (like the pencil eraser) and when you don't have it in your tiny inventory.....why don't you tell the class what you have to do?

@Browny It's not about hoarding, it's about having to constantly get rid of stuff (1 item at a time) because of the limited inventory space. It's about the terrible inventory management system. With Dragon Quest, you can move things to the bag and the game will even do it for you when a characters inventory fills up. The bag has infinite space and the bag is always with you. You don't need to find a phone, call your sister and then pay her to take stuff off your hands and then the same to get the stuff back. Inventory management is Earthbound is tedious.

In Dragon Quest you may have 60 Medicinal Herbs in your bag that you will never use but you also don't have to use, sell or drop them 1 at a time to free up inventory space. You can 'Organize Items' to move everything except your equipped stuff to the bag.

In Final Fantasy you can have 99 Potions and never think twice about them. It's not about hoarding, it's about not having to worry about them unless you want to. Not sure how your Chrono Cross example fits here, Chrono Cross doesn't have an inventory management problem. You are biased if you think inventory management in Earthbound is fine.

@Browny Are you telling me you have never used, dropped or sold a healing item (like a cookie) JUST to get rid of it so you can free up the inventory space?

I have used, sold or dropped so many cookies and burgers just to free up space and so have you. Not because I needed to heal and not because I needed the cash, I just needed to open up an inventory space. But....you say the inventory system is fine...LOL

@MS7000 I am kind bummed that it is not a full remake

Did you want it take a decade, come out in multiple parts and cost multiples of $60 ($70 for Playstation people)?

@somebread It's so overrated it's safer for them to praise it to the moon. It doesn't even begin to compare to games like Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger or Super Mario RPG.

You know, Final Fantasy II on the SNES had an inventory limit (although not as tiny as Earthbound) and thankfully they fixed that in Final Fantasy III which came out the same year as Earthbound.

@somebread i certainly wouldn't give earthbound a 10/10 (i keep thinking about how unneccessary and irritating almost everything in the desert is), but it's not too terribly hard to see why someone would

Yeah, hype. Earthbound has to be one of the most overrated games and every reviewer knows that they better praise it to the moon....or else....

@Blooper987 non random encounters is a huge one. Battles where you are much stronger than the opponent are automatically won. An auto fight option I prefer random encounters, I don't want ugly sprites messing up the maps AND I don't want to have to worry about how to make enemies respawn if you want/need to grind. Yeah, automatically winning battles is great but you have to be much much stronger so it's not all the useful. Breath of Fire had auto battle and it came out a year earlier. No point for that one.

And I’m sure there’s even more I can’t think of right now

I doubt that.

@Browny Easily stands toe to toe with the other masterpieces of the SNES.

Yeah, what Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III (VI) needed was a tiny inventory. /s Those games are way ahead of Earthbound in every way.

@Blooper987 I don’t know how you think this game has aged poorly as a bunch of the mechanics are things that some RPG series have only just started adding

Such as?

The inventory system is terrible. It needs a bag ( like Dragon Quest) to store things in that don’t fit into the player inventories.

10/10 with the inventory issues?

They should release Chrono Trigger on NSO to go with the Chrono Cross remaster.

Why does Nintendo Life want to ruin these directs with speculation?

We can't do anything about companies buying other companies. I doubt people cheering or booing are having any impact on these companies.

@JayJ Maybe this is why we've been getting the slow trickle feed of games, they're putting all their time into the emulator.

Then explain the slow trickle of NES and SNES games? Stop making excuses for them.

In the US, Wal Mart charges $50 for $60 games.

@Specter_of-the_OLED It's like 24 hour news where everyone is repeating the same things over and over again just to fill the time slot. It reeks of desperation, these people can't wait to jump on the next news story (no matter how small) and run it into the ground.

@kkslider5552000 Nintendo updates 1 game and the YouTubers make videos and game journalists (LOL) write articles so they can profit from it. Their 'PR Nightmare' just means that they get more press with each update.

@kkslider5552000 It's an outdated quote and I wish people would stop bringing it up. The N64 games DO get the chance to succeed since everyone who bought a subscription had to pay for a full year. If Nintendo had waited to launch the N64 service until the emulator was perfect, it would never get released.

@kkslider5552000 Thus meaning they did not let this emulation be delayed and eventually be good. It goes against the famous Miyamoto quote itself.

It's just so not what I want Nintendo to do, ever.

Plenty of game delays to go around if that's what you want. That Miyamoto quote is outdated.