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Re: Nintendo Switch System Update 15.0.1 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

TheSaneInsanity

@PoeTheLizard and those disney bucks are earned by completing battle passes bought with vbucks in Fortnite, which are awarded when buying rubies in Mario Kart tour, which are only purchasable if you pay the monthly subscription for Ubisoft's online extras service, which is an opportunity awarded through an overwatch lootbox which is rigged to make your subscription cost less if you make wishes through genshin impact, which are awarded for completing every Nintendo produced first or second party release.
*with an active nso subscription

Re: Mario Kart Tour To Remove Gacha Elements Next Month

TheSaneInsanity

@Vix On the matter of heart in these games. The problem could be that the care or attention the developers put in fails to reach the audience. It fails to reach the audience's hearts because many of those hearts disagree with the feeling of paying to win or playing to be beaten.
I disagree that the presence of uncertainty and gambling randomness brings out a lack of passion or heart in the developers. The hearts of the devs and the gambling are separate factors to a degree, I think putting all of these games under (no heart/ no passion) is not correct.
I think this next statement may be faulty, but the money to continue supporting a game they want to make could be a passionate developer's hope.

Re: Nintendo Treehouse: Live Presentation Set For This Thursday

TheSaneInsanity

@Rykdrew I see. My opinion is that the casuals will get attracted later, when updates add something trendy. No harm in looking at it later when something genuinely cool happens. Having one thing like that at launch besides tricolour turf wars, which is currently locked behind an event, would be lovely.
I think that they're hiding their hand with story stuff, but not anything super-duper amazing.
I think this is bad marketing because their methods feel similar to NEO:The world ends with you, where the fans were meant to carry the game's sales by word of mouth.
Splatoon 2 is a snapshot of what the game was right now, and currently Splatoon 3 is close to that snapshot… If Splatoon 3 does not shift away from 2 with time. I am not getting Splatoon 4. I barely remember Splatoon 2's updates, so perhaps that's a bad sign, but I was a teenager with a ton going on then, so I don't really know for certain.