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Re: Turns Out Bandai Namco Helped To Develop Mario Kart Tour

JamesJose7

Why are people instantly assuming they were involved in the micro transactions of this game and trashing Bandai. It even says in the article that they developed assets and challenges. There's a lot involved in development. They were just contracted, don't start flipping out for no reason.

Re: Review: Mistover - A Dungeon-Crawling RPG That's Over-Encumbered With Punitive Mechanics

JamesJose7

@KitsuneNight Maybe you have had personal bad experiences with it, but grinding does not make a game bad. Poor implementation is one thing, but that can be said about any game mechanic.
Grinding is included specially in RPGs because it synergizes well with one of the core principles of the genere, character growth. In an RPG you get the awesome feeling of struggling at first with some weak enemies, then, after 100 hours of gameplay with lots of grinding and adventure, you have grown. You are stronger, and you can see yourself back in the day struggling with those monsters from the beginning which you can defeat now by merely touching them. That amazing feeling people get who love RPGs, myself included, can only be achieved after all the hard work you've put on growing your character(s). You feel as if you truly deserve the power you have because you worked for it. That's what grinding is for.

Re: Angry Bunnies Sure Looks Familiar, But It's Free To Download On Switch

JamesJose7

@Darknyht I'm sorry friend you lost me at Android app permissions. I was referring to the ability to easily exploit a closed system such as a console through games for the wild things you mentioned like bitcoin mining or information stealing. But since you really want to know how people make money with free games is microtransactions. I don't know if you're new here but if you go to the eshop page of this game you will see the dev selling multiple level packs as well as in bundles of in-game currency. There you go, mystery solved.

Re: Angry Bunnies Sure Looks Familiar, But It's Free To Download On Switch

JamesJose7

@Darknyht exactly, that is the only example that exists. And even that one was instantly taking care of when Nintendo removed it. Also it was just a compiler, meaning an actual exploit was not introduced. It could've served as an entry point for doing something with the Switch but that required user input. Also they confirmed that games run on a sandbox much like how you can protect OS instances by virtualizing them. That's why people who find exploits do it on a hardware level first. So yeah, everything is fine.