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@River3636 Wouldn't same-sex marriage be doomed in an evolution chain since they can't reproduce by themselves?

I just wonder if SMA4:SMB3 is going to get a discount at some point. I really want to play those e-reader levels, but no point in paying full price if I won't have time to play it now anyway.

I guess they shipped the UK all the excess units for NA.

So, does this mean it includes all the e-reader levels, including the ones that were previously JPN only?

Who finds this stuff??!?

@mikegamer Could be a dev screenshot I guess, but most likely it's in the game.

Wow, I've resisted all the Figmas to this point but this one does look nice. Probably not worth the price for it to sit on my desk, but.....yea.

The movement and sound effects remind of Zelda Link to the Past.

That is amazing.

Naw, I'll skip the depression train and catch the joy train.

Good article Damien, better late than never. We still love you.

I wouldn't buy it if it didn't include those levels. I would be thrilled if it included the missing US levels from where they stopped producing the cards.

@sketchturner My thoughts too. How can they make a blanket statement like, well, this genre didn't sell well, so we're gonna stop making all games on the 3DS. Seems like a scare tactic to drive up sales.

@VeeFlamesNL Well, but then on the other side, at stake are online rankings that will be all but forgotten in 6 months....so really, did anyone lose anything? Beyond all that, I'm more amazed at how anyone found the original levels.

lol, I may grab the PC version someday

@Monado_III Well, that's not entirely accurate. Technically you still don't own the 'license' for the soundtrack. When you buy a CD, you technically are buying a license to own that music in that form. It's all a bunch of technical legal mess, but the short end is, owning the game doesn't give you the rights to own the music separately.

Step 1) Obtain the full OST
Step 2) Format the Limited Edition USB drive
Step 3) Copy the music to the drive
Step 4) Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not condone or promote illegal downloading of copyrighted material.

@Ralizah I think what they mentioned above was a promo for early sign-up. But I'm kind of with you, they haven't officially announced how they will handle physical purchases.

"100 Yen for every 1000 Yen they spend on the Wii U and 3DS eShops."

I hope this isn't an indication that physical purchases will not be recognized with this service.

@Darkthany Truth. Having said that, this trailer is pretty bad. I liked the first one they did, that one was actually pretty exciting. It feels like they're trying too hard to be cool.

$20 for the amiibo, tho?

I think I have a different definition of Jazz than you guys....

That looks amazing.

Tecmo Bowl. Calling it.

Good time to buy Nintendo stock?

Wow.....amazing production value.

HOOOOOOORRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!

@LunaticPandora I wasn't sure if I was just reading into that, but yea, it seemed like an underhanded compliment.

I might have lined up if the release date wasn't on a Sunday morning. I'm not skipping church to line-up for a toy....

@Kage_88 The only thing about the MN9 campaign that went wrong was the toxic attitude of the supporters. They had some unavoidable issues and some updates that could've been better, but people are painting it like it was the worst development story in history and it's simply not. Every backer is still getting what they agreed to pay for in the beginning, if not more.

Hmmm, it's easy to criticize this situation. It does seem like a bad business plan, but who knows what the full story is. Surely he didn't just go in thinking, 'meh, I'll figure out how to make the other 120k later'.

@duffmmann Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about. I never said anything about them not suing again. I think you may have misunderstood one comment where I said they would encourage others to do the same thing this guy did. I was saying if TPCi did as one member suggested and support this dude, then that action would encourage others to do the same. In reality, I realize they would definitely sue again.

@daff3ww See my above comment.

@Yorumi The people you are mentioning take content and create new content from it. They don't forklift it from the original source and reproduce it 1-to-1 somewhere else for profit. I was actually speaking to the re-dubbed animes you mentioned before. Honestly, I don't care to defend the point further though.

@Yorumi Naw, I get that. But on the parody, the ones I've always seen were free to download/watch. I guess you mean YouTube ads?

@duffmmann That would only invite more people to infringe on their IP....

@Yorumi I think the main difference with the parody versus the poster is the parodies are not seeking to make a profit whereas the poster was promoting an event that was. So the examples are not really comparable. I don't disagree with your opinion that this was a bad move on TPCi's part. I think people are just saying this guy was not innocent. It's easy to overlook the immoral actions of an individual in the face of the big bad corporation, but the fact remains is he was trying to use IP that was not his to promote profit for his business, which is a shady practice in and of itself. Again, as I said in my first post, probably no one here is innocent of copyright infringement at some level, but hopefully people grow out of that stage once they realize it's wrong.

@PlywoodStick Oh.....then he (or she) is making a jerk move.....but one totally within his (or her) rights.

@Yorumi You are 100% correct that legality does not make morality. However, who's moral compass would TPCi be bound to? If I was TPCi, I wouldn't sue, I would've just done the C&D, but this is a company, not a person. A company's moral compass is bound by profits. The only incentive they have not to sue is the bad publicity from doing so. However, that seems to have actually steered them to go after him harder.

I feel bad for the guy, but he is totally in the wrong. Like others have said, he shouldn't have made it public first of all. But I'd imagine the majority of visitors to this site have also done illegal things that they could have potentially been sued for and just never got caught. So it's not like anyone here can judge him, but then again, we can't really condemn TPCi either since they're doing what they are legally allowed to do.

@6ch6ris6 LOL what you said. I think he hates the game industry as many times as he predicted it's downfall.

Lacks a AAA release? Xenoblade Chronicles X doesn't count?

Oh, you guys can actually order online from your Nintendo Store? What a novel idea!

I have to wonder if, in real life, the people it's showing play this game would actually play this game.

@Farpun or Amiibo Depot.

Can't Australians just walk into a gas station and pick up all of them? j/k

The amount of attention that Europe's Club Nintendo in contrast to North America is shameful. I hope they do a better job of equalizing prizes in whatever the next system is.

@Xaldin Naw, to just download it would be illegal since it's not obtained through legitimate means.

Why are there only 10 tracks on the thumb drive? Why not the whole OST?

I wonder why Nintendo hates North America.