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Me and my partner absolutely loved playing this together. Really good game. We'd love more.

@BenGrimm It has something to do with the two tiered legal system and how a CEO could take home millions while laying off staff at his abusive company. IDK.

This was the best announcement, but the chat reaction topped it.

It comes on screen, and is clearly Xenoblade. Chat: "is this BOTW2?". A British voice over starts. Chat: "BOTW 2!". More clealy Xenoblade footage and British accents. Chat: "BOTW2". Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Titles Card. Chat: "What?, worst Nintendo Direct. -10/10. Where's my BOTW2?".

You know what would be a great eshop feature?, an 'avoid publisher' option.

It's already possible to see all the games a publisher has. Which has been great for finding games by publishers I like. But being able to put a publisher in to a black list would help cut down a lot of faff of the store, and publishers are basically screaming "block me!" at this point.

@gaga64 OK, but each one of those 155m is sales they made profit on. They aren't the disc being resold again and again.

So the questions become;

1) How would they tie a physical disc to an NFT to ensure profit on each copy resold?.

2a) Would the money they make off of NFT physical resales be more than the potential loss of earnings from digital resales? Something like 80% of game sales are digital, upending the 80% to profit from the 20% sounds stupid.

2b) or is the % they are going to take so great that it effectively equals a new game sale (and ultimately means very low return for the customer)?.

3) Why not just only sell digital only and make direct profit off of each copy sold?. Again, it is the system that's already in place and most seem to have accepted.

Again, none of these makes sense to me. This seems like a lot of effort for very little benefit on their end. NFTs biggest money making potential is in large online game spaces that encourages lots of play. Somewhere where you could have players take part in activities that generates NFTs for you, which can then be sold on to other players. Which these players are doing to earn money, meanwhile, you as the publisher, just sits back and reaps the rewards of the game. Something like GTA Online, for instance.

@gaga64 "So yeah, I’m renting a parking space in that garage, and then selling my ticket to the next driver when I’m done with it."

I've seen a few people argue for this, but it doesn't make sense to me. If Rockstar can sell 155m copies of GTA5, and barely put it on a discount digitally, why would they allow, let's say, 10m people buy it then just sell it forward until all 155m have played it, AND what happens to those last 10m who end up with a copy they can't sell, but wanted to?.

Wouldn't Rockstar be in direct competition with those first round of sales to sell it to then next guy?. To the next customer, it doesn't matter if it comes from you or Rockstar. It will just depend on who is selling it cheaper, and traditionally, Rockstar haven't had to be cheap to sell units. Why would they allow you to undercut them?. Speaking of traditionally, video game companies have hated second hand sales because it eats their profits.

Unless there is some other method (artifical scarcity, ala Nintendo, on a digital and endlessly reproducible product no less) that drives those prices up. It's not like we haven't seen an object gain or keep value by being scarce (Hello 3D All Stars and PT installed on a PS4).

So just following the logic through, there's no clear financial incentive for businesses to opt in to NFTs that allow free trading on owned games, unless those games were only sold in limited quantities and only the highest bidders can get access at during launch periods (oh, hello next gen launch consoles and scalpers).

I'm noticing that while the pro-NFT organisation voices are still going, the pro-NFT customer voices are getting quieter.

@BTB20 He keeps getting the link shared to him by people honestly trying to educate him on the complaints against NFTs and he's absolutely refusing to even try to understand it. But given responses like this

"It's just digital collecting"

I think he just doesn't care, he has a plan to get rich off of the artificial scarcity of otherwise freely and easily replicated digital items, and no one is going to stop him on his digital MLM enterprise.

@RasandeRose "Crime is on the rise, have you completely missed that?"

Yeah, I have. I've seen that violent crime is on the rise, but unless you have a link, I haven't seen anything to say that crime in general has risen. In fact, crime has a whole has dropped a lot over the last 25 years.

"It's really the time now to set the foot down and lock 'em up."

Have you ever considered dealing with root causes of crime, or even rehabilitation, rather than just punishing people after the fact?

@RasandeRose "What the company is worth hasn't anything to do with it"

Kinda does. Stealing from a struggling local business is far worse than stealing from a thriving mega Corp.

"And one wrong doesn't make another wrong right. If the penalties for sexual assault is too light, then the way of correcting it is not to make penalties for theft lighter."

I'm not suggesting any of this.

"The correct way is to be tougher on crime across the board."

No. Definitely not. Giving ten years to everybody for everything would be tougher, it would also be a completely unfair way to deliver justice.

The correct way would be to have the punishment fit the crime. So, personal, violent crimes, like sexual assault should be the ones getting more time. Indirect, less harmful actions, should be punished less.

Six months for sexual assault.

Five years for slightly inconveniencing a billion dollar company's ability to make more money.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, the American Justice System.

The UI, eShop, and online systems need a massive refresh then.

Redo them as if they were built for a brand new system, and make the Switch feel like a new system, while also addressing the long standing issues.

@Scapetti It's all dependent getting people invested in crypto, a highly speculative market that ultimately requires a bigger sucker than you to see a profit on that investment.

@Scapetti Well if 2 hours is too long, then I have the 2 second version for you. Its a scam.

@Scapetti OK, you keep conflating criticism with abuse, so much so that I feel you aren't being good faith there. Voicing your concern over a thing that's very concerning is not a problem.

All abuse outside of that is bad, and it's always bad, but that is not connected to why Troy recieved backlash in this matter.

Secondly, NFTs are very divisive right now. Esty is not. If you didn't know that NFTs would get you backlash, then you aren't aware of what's going on. That's a problem on your end for not doing the research on the topic. Especially worrying when you consider Troy was going to go in to business without researching the market first.

And lastly, yes partnering with an NFT project is a bad thing in a lot of people's books. And people are raising the problems with NFTs and again, you not knowing that is your problem for not researching that. And, I have to add, the problems being raised would undermine your assessment that this was a "completely harmless thing".

There's a video linked above. Start there

@Scapetti Now you are equating not being interested in someone's artist product and abuse.

Heres the thing. No one was "abusing" Troy until he decided to partner with Voiceversa on an NFT project. No one forced him to do that, and no one forced him to antagonistocally announce it over twitter. He made a business decision that would directly affect his audience, and they rejected it.

Did you put this much effort in to defending GSC Game World when they recieved backlash for the Stalker NFTs?

@Scapetti Hey, you were the one talking about livelihoods being ruined. Which is objectively not true in this instance.

Don't put words in my mouth.

And look, if voice acting is his life and passion, maybe partnering up with a company that wants to replace him with AIs maybe wasn't the best idea.

@Scapetti Troy is worth like $6m, his livelihood is fine.

@BloodNinja All the biggest companies benefit from the exploitation of these models. Even if it's just by just being the platform holder that scoops up fees.

A couple of good companies doesn't excuse what the industry as a whole is engagaing in.

@BloodNinja Everything I mentioned has been widely condemned as not being fair. So much so that they dropped online passes and lootboxes have been investigated and talked about governmental regulation, in multiple countries.

@BloodNinja You literally just need to look back at microtransactions, lootboxes, season passes, pre-order DLC, and online passes.

NFTs being new does not exclude them from being exploited. And we very well know that these companies will twist any and every supplementary monetisation model to be as profitable as possible, even at the cost of consumer experience.

Lets be honest here. If Ubisoft had some grand consumer friendly plan for NFTs it would be shouting it from the rooftops and actually telling you how they will benefit the player. They aren't giving details because the details make them look bad.

@BloodNinja I think you are being overly charitable to these companies if you think they'll use this tech to transfer more ownership and control over more traditional style content to the customer, and not use it almost exclusively in F2P titles, on in game content, to over inflate and stimulate in game economies.

Hell, we have a very well documented history of how these companies implement these kinds of models.

You telling me that a company that implimented Online Passes cares about the consumer being able to sell the content they own?

They are gaslighting gamers in to participating in their digital content scam.

@Not_Soos If people with addiction knew how to control themselves, they would. That's why many get upset when confronted with their situation, because they are unhappy with it.

The problem is addiction comes at a loss of control, and the thought of regaining control also comes with thoughts that control is impossible within the individual. That's why so many recovering alcoholics turn to religion. It's an outside source of power. In truth, the person is the one saying "no", but because they had mentally given themselves up as too weak, they essentially outsource that power to something they see as more powerful than themselves.

The first two steps of AA is "admitting the person was powerless over alcohol", and "that there is a power greater than themselves".

Saying "they prey on addictive personalities" is very accurate, and not a weak argument if you understand the truth about addiction.

https://www.mentalhelp.net/addiction/why-cant-they-stop/

My parents smoke and drank every night, while sitting in front of the TV every night.

I don't smoke and have a glass of whiskey maybe once every two or three months, but play video games every night.

I think I'm winning.

@JeanPaul Because Nintendo own the IP and insanity game mechanic copyright.

Lots of people in here very seriously telling others that they can't take jokes, after they worked themselves up over an article that was very non-specific.

@Spiders They aren't making a fuss, they are just asking obvious questions like "why do we allow a racist and/or homophobe to spread dangerous ideas?".

"Hate or create"

Can we seriously talk about this?. LIke, I get that we as gamers find a way to hate a lot of things, and that in itself is toxic, but trying to paint all criticism as toxic hate is far more toxic.

It's straight up 'obey, consume' BS.

@dew12333 This isn't an internet police issue. This is a TOS issue

@UglyCasanova There's nothing wrong with what he said though. He's not talking about banning all users from services across all platforms, he's on about a user taking their personal block list across services.

That sounds fine.

Edit: I don't actually block many people, my block list on xbox is made up almost entirely of smurf accounts. That's actually a bigger issue, especially on xbox. There's huge amounts of people who use smurf accounts to get around being abusive or to just game the matchmaking systems and ruin everything.

I would whole heartedly support a Playstation hybrid console. (and an xbox hybrid for that matter).

It's not exactly grade A humour, but the stuff in there seems to be mocking the right wing conspiracy nutjob BS, rather than enabling it, so I don't really see what's wrong with it.

"I realize that some people who “play to have fun” and who currently form the majority of players have voiced their reservations toward these new trends"

The amount of red flags going off in just this one sentence alone is blinding.

I'm of the opinion that the timing of this remaster, and Nintendo's recently launched N64 sub service is not a coincedence.

Rare had said that it was Nintendo that stopped the remaster from happening. I imagine a scenario where Nintendo approached the other companies about getting the title on NSO, and the other companies (i.e. MS) just said "yeah sure, as long as we get to release a remaster on our platform".

And quite frankly, I'd rather buy the title on Xbox than have to sub indefinitely on Switch.

Xbox and Steam have this feature built in to their free first party apps.

That's along side free cloud and party chat.

Big boomer energy.

It's not the best game in the series, but it's worth £2.44.

I bought me a copy, and one for my son's switch, that he'll get at Xmas. Less than a fiver for us to have fun jumping around buildings and shooting aliens is a good deal.

Want the black one.

I use to love this game as a kid. The cheese story and arcadey, replayable, gameplay had me hooked. Was never good enough to complete it.

@JustMonika Yeah, I tried but gave up. It wasn't even that terrible but it was rough and had a very low population and made going for the platinum, not fun.

I really wish there had been a standard for adding online trophies through DLC. I'd have double the plats.

@Would_you_kindly OK, but what non-mainline bioshock is missing from the Switch?

"well, its mainline games, at least"?

The entire series is on Switch. There are no spin offs or sub-series. The only thing that didn't make it to Switch is the BS2 MP, and honestly, for good reason, and that mode isn't included in the Xbox One or PS4 versions either.

@Browny Well it's not bad so far. We've had workers rights, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights and people are working on tran's rights right now. It's slow progress, but still progress.

It's amazing how far society has come to make life just that little but fairer, you know? It's good we have dreamers who push for this sort of thing and not just "Hey that's how life is" - ers.

@Browny You are literally shifting blame right after the sentence in which you say you aren't shifting blame.

No one said life was fair, but we are saying it is unfair. And since society should benefit the human race, and we are the ones who get to decide what society looks like, maybe, we could make society fair, even if life isn't.

@Browny "unskilled" I really hate these types of arguments.

1) Do you know how many managers are out there that are completely lacking in skill for the role that they do and the money that they get?.

Talk to any low rung worker and they've worked with at least half a dozen.

2) Cleaning is unskilled, but completely necessary. And if a job provides value to society, it should rewarded fairly.

3) just because a job isn't skilled, doesn't mean it's easy, and again, if someone is putting in the time and effort to do it, they should be fairly compensated.

4) And maybe if the US had easier, cheaper, avenues to obtaining skills, more people would have one.

Shifting blame to the workers doesn't really solve the problem.

The irony is, the more stability updates they put out, the more unstable I become.

Imagine being able to play Nintendo's back catalogue straight from your console right now without needing to pay for sub fee that drip feeds you titles.

@PosterBoy I only use twitter to harass Randy Pitchford.

@CharlieGirl I'm with you 100%.

I recently "got told off" for calling out someone's BS about this. This other person said they were going to get the new COD for Xmas to "support the devs" and I non-diplomatically told them they weren't financially supporting the devs, they were financially supporting the abusive environments these devs have to work in.

This is the sort of stuff that sends me in to internally screaming mode.

I was coming here to say "yeah, he's happy to leave as long as he gets a massive payout" and lo and behold, that info has already been exposed and reported on.

It's a shame gamers don't have more of a moral spine and can't just stop buying acti products. It's hard to pay a CEO millions if you don't have the millions to pay them.