@nintendoboy16 said:
Maybe not with the internet, but financially, ActiEAUbi are sure getting away with it "scot free". I mean for gods sake, EA hasn't thrown away the online DRM requirement for the new Need for Speed even after all the shit they got for it with SimCity 2013. Despite all that controversy, they still walk away with millions of dollars.
So you think even casual people who buy Splatoon (lacking mic support be damned, but even Splatoons flaws are NOTHING compared to ALWAYS ONLINE DRM), or any Nintendo modern product, just for a fun game (which they are generally received as), are morons (just like anybody who disagrees with your stance)?
Customers have power, yes. But at times, it feels like they have TOO much power. Because of that, consumer ignorance shows it's ugly face. Maybe you see with Nintendo fans (your translation: fakers, because only YOU are the truest fan, right?) like me, but just because it's not okay for a company to come off as dictatorial, doesn't mean it precisely gives consumers the right either (especially if said customers demand companies to do actions that may end up destroying said company)
"You may not expect more from this company. I do."
And there's your problem. You have expressed disappointment after disappointment after disappointment, even in things people actually give a damn about with Nintendo. You always expect more, when current history is telling you that you shouldn't. Like I said MANY times earlier: YOU shouldn't care what Nintendo does anymore after all you said and should be ignoring them (while clinging to nostalgia). Crap, for comparisons sake and going back to the realm of film, there's a reason people hardly look back at the Wachowski's after the first Matrix.
Maxis has recently been shut down. I'd consider that a significant repercussion (and pretty financially relevant to the overall company's future potential). Sure they walked away with millions, but you think in the long-term what has happened will benefit EA?
Yes, Splatoon's design choices are nothing compared to AO DRM. Tying accounts to hardware is arguably just as bad because it necessitates the re-buying the same games over and over for each platform, or to pay an upgrade fee in transfer. Or designing many of your games around minimalist DLC locked behind twelve dollar toy characters each in the worst exploitative utilization of the practice seen yet. Not to mention, Nintendo's inability to keep sufficient stock on store shelves even though they've said it'll be fixed. Enjoy the Animal Crossing reveal? Hope so, as prepare yourself to have those Amiibos shoved down your throat at every turn and shoe-horned into every future game, not to mention going to a store and being unable to even purchase that functionality unless you got in the pre-order window in the first 30 seconds before they're sold out for months.
Given the choice between two evils, I'd much rather have consumer's ignorance show its face than a company's as due to lack of formal structure of a business, they can more easily not remain a consensus or an absolute. Even amidst the worst this enables, the principle that transcends it grants it the overall advantage. You'd rather have Nintendo remain willingly ignorant and believe it's to their aid contrasted against the consumer's ability to change their mind or come together so fervently when a company does something really right, like Sony this year?: TLG, FF VII Remake, and Shenmue III. In one move, many gamers' dreams have come true and Sony is currently dominating on a tidal wave of goodwill. What they just executed has bought in people the willingness to compromise for years to come, and that's from listening. It doesn't take much. If Nintendo had shown one game, just a Metroid that looked more than a bargain basement project quick cash-in whoring out of the franchise, and aligned it with what people have come to love it for instead, people would be ecstatic and willing to do this as well.
But with Nintendo, they won't listen. They ignore everything in what feels like extreme contempt of what people who buy their products desire. That Metroid felt like a mockery and a slap in the face. Their "we don't care/pay attention to" apathetic stance harms them, yet they stand by it like some virtue. I agree with you that compromise needs to be made, but it's Nintendo that is completely unwilling in this case. For you not to see that and (per typical) blame consumers again shows your unwillingness to lay any serious fault at their feet.
My problem is expecting modern day standards from Nintendo? Well, perhaps you're right nintendoboy. Perhaps I should be content with their online attitude. Maybe I need to accept mini-game crap compilations and more Mario, Mario, Mario, Zelda, Zelda Zelda in every game they announce. Perhaps I should fully embrace their anti-consumer policies. Nothing speaks truer of being a fan of Nintendo these days than to shuting my mouth and taking whatever's shoveled out, and when I voice any criticisms or discontent, I am a hater and were never a fan in the first place. Predictable Nintendo fanboy garbage. You, and every Nintendo ardent die-hard that believes this delusional narrative are insufferable.
When I have a "true" fan who enables such bullshit informing me that expecting decent standards is my problem right there, then what's further left to argue?
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