i don't care that they're making it, i care that everyone i know is going to buy it because it's nintendo, play the shit out of it because it's nintendo, and talk about it constantly because it's nintendo
that is like, enough to buy some dope jawnz, cop a cav empt t-shirt or something
Yes, I'm aware of how absurdly overpriced most games are. I think it contributes to a lot of issues in the medium, mostly by making it very inaccessible. I almost never buy games new.
But I don't find it outright exploitative, at least not inherently. Shortsighted, stupid, though, yeah.
Also I find your counterexample of fashionable clothing to be *deeply* ironic.
I'm not just being a Nintendo stan either. I mean, I think wrt exploiting customer loyalty they're certainly better than, well, numerous prominent companies, but there are things with them that I take issue with.
Pokémon shouldn't be split into three versions of the same fucking game, amiibo is a cool idea but Nintendo's blatant artificial shortages are super unethical, Fire Emblem Fates, Tomodachi Life, all problems, all uniquely Nintendo problems.
But releasing a new game at the accepted- if way too high- market price? Yes, that's a problem, but it's not a new one, it's not a unique one, and it's not Nintendo exploiting nostalgia, at least unless people are going for the capitalism is inherently exploitative angle (hey man I'm with ya but maybe Mario Maker isn't the best example for that?) or think all media should exist in a nostalgia vacuum.
to put my thoughts more neutrally / less hyperbolically:
there is precedent for japanese companies making really bad mobile spinoffs of popular franchises and i feel that this one will be more successful than most because nintendo just has so much brand equity that a fair amount of people will buy it on their name / the name of the franchise alone.
I generally see f2p as a very stubborn boil on the entire industry's ass, so yeah. But again, pretty much every major company out there has already dipped into that (Nintendo might be the last one, actually). As long as they don't invest so heavily into it that they start sacrificing other projects and buying out developers to do nothing else like Zynga did around here, I don't really give much of a damn.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Also it's not like the 60 dollar pricing model is, like, uniquely a Nintendo problem. It's an "every damn console game" problem.
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that is like, enough to buy some dope jawnz, cop a cav empt t-shirt or something
But I don't find it outright exploitative, at least not inherently. Shortsighted, stupid, though, yeah.
Also I find your counterexample of fashionable clothing to be *deeply* ironic.
Pokémon shouldn't be split into three versions of the same fucking game, amiibo is a cool idea but Nintendo's blatant artificial shortages are super unethical, Fire Emblem Fates, Tomodachi Life, all problems, all uniquely Nintendo problems.
But releasing a new game at the accepted- if way too high- market price? Yes, that's a problem, but it's not a new one, it's not a unique one, and it's not Nintendo exploiting nostalgia, at least unless people are going for the capitalism is inherently exploitative angle (hey man I'm with ya but maybe Mario Maker isn't the best example for that?) or think all media should exist in a nostalgia vacuum.
It's literally one of the best ideas the series could have
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i am currently kinda liveblogging my playing Pokémon Crystal Emu Edition over on IJBM
and one member of my current lineup happens to be a gastly