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What do you think of Nintendo's Free-to-Start/DLC/etc. experiments? [roundtable]
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Nintendo has been getting pretty wacky, business model-wise, these days. Up is down, left is right, cats and dogs, living together... So how do you feel about their attempts to modernize and monetize their groove? Have you enjoyed Pokemon Shuffle and Pokemon Rumble World? Have you tired of tiny Pikachu icons on your start screen? How about DLC? How much have you bought for Nintendo games? Will you pick up all of the Smash Bros. characters? How about the costumes? Confession: I have played an embarrassing amount of Pokemon Shuffle (without consciously meaning to). Rumble is also somewhat addictive. Honestly, it feels kind of manipulative. And I'm not sure I enjoy that feeling. Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is a much, much, much better game, but the barrier to entry/minimum session length is so much higher. It's the same phenomenon that causes people to watch TV instead of play games at the end of a long work day. Anyway, I'm still collecting my thoughts on the topic. My kneejerk reaction is: I hate DLC and Microtransactions. However, I have absolutely no qualms with the way Mario Kart has rolled out new "content". Shuffle is also pretty well done, and basically free. So the devil is probably in the details. But I do miss the simpler days of yore. URL to share (right click and copy)
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04/16/15, 16:59 Edited: 04/16/15, 17:00
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I think the DLC for Mario Kart has been amazing, and a great value. I also bought the Season Pass for Hyrule Warriors because it seemed like too good of deal to pass up. Nintendo seems to handle DLC right by actually giving you tangible things that are awesome, i.e. new tracks and karts or new playable characters.
I can't speak to the Smash stuff since I don't plan buying any of it and haven't really been paying attention.
I'm not down with Free 2 Play though, ever, on any platform, in fact I have a rule that anytime a game asks me if I want to buy more time/energy/lives whatnot in order to keep playing I immediately quit playing and then delete the game. It happened to Resident Evil Revelations 2 on the PS4, I played through the entire campaign and put about 20 hours into Raid Mode not even paying attention to my "life crystals", and the day the message came up: "hey, to keep playing buy more life Crystals from the PSN store", I just quit, backed out to the home screen, pressed options, then chose "delete" and that's that. Dead to me forever. |
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