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    MegaMan52

    Posted

    53 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

    Your arguments and my rebuttals:

     

    A: It's day 1 downloadable content.

    R: No, it's not. It's not downloadable content, it's part of the initial release of the game.

     

    A: I could have paid more money to buy something cheaper than the toys and get the same end result.

    R: No, I will not pay 5 cents if I already paid for the entire game. I paid for the whole game, I get the whole game, I'm not buying anything else.

     

    A: It is not required in order to enjoy the game.

    R: I don't care. It's part of the game, I paid for the game, I should get all parts of the game.

     

    A: Other games do it.

    R: And? If someone else murders someone, is it okay for you to do it?

     

    Imagine if you buy a movie and in order to watch the credits you have to tap a plastic toy on the remote control. The credits aren't required to enjoy the movie but does that sound bizarre? Do you think that should be allowed? If I pay for the movie, I want to see the credits without buying anything extra.

    As I said, I don't mean DLC in a literal sense, I just mean it's content which is gated and was released on Day 1. It's a reward for those who buy Amiibos; not getting them isn't a punishment for not getting the Amiibos. 

    You bought the guide lmao. 

    You got all parts of what the purchase of the game entitled you to.

    It's exactly like a pre-order bonus: It's nothing that's missed by not having it, it's a bonus for those who are extra dedicated to the series.

    It literally says on the game case that you can use Amiibos to gain boosts, and that Amiibos are sold separately; you just had to use your eyes, but instead you're just making entitled excuses to justify theft:

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    MegaMan52

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Sumez said:

    It's not really DLC. Like you said, it's already included in the physical game, and doesn't actually require any additional purchase. 

    If the game did have day 1 DLC, I don't think the fact that other games also have that should excuse it. It's always scummy, and should be criticised every time it happens. 

    Functionally no, it's not DLC, but I'm not really interested in debating semantics. I simply mean it's extra content which is not in any way required; it's an extra reward for people who bought the Amiibos. It's not too dissimilar to pre-order bonuses and the like.

    You may not like the concept of Day 1 DLC (I'm neither here nor there, personally), but its mere existence doesn't give him a moral right to just straight up pirate the next game in the series. If he felt that he NEEDED those Amiibo bonuses, if we're in a world of "eye for an eye", he could/should have done as I said and bought a re-programmable NFC card and gotten the things he felt he'd been cheated out of for basically free. Not stolen their entire next game. 

    MegaMan52

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Code Monkey said:

    I played through Breath Of The Wild when it came out and followed along in the official guide I have for it. I went page by page through the guide to make sure I had everything, even crossing off 900 of those Korok seeds from the included map. I got to one section with some swords and clothing with a description that they can be accessed by tapping the appropriate Amiibo but I couldn't find anywhere about how to get them without the Amiibo. I phoned Nintendo to ask them how I'm supposed to do it because I paid full price for the game and there were sections in the game I purchased which I could not access. They told me it was impossible, I had to buy hundreds of dollars worth of plastic toys in addition to purchasing the game in order to get all of the game's content.

    I felt frustration with the fire of a thousand suns and vowed I would not pay for the next Zelda game that comes out in order to recover my portion of the game I did not receive. When Tears Of The Kingdom came out, I refused to pay for it and instead taught myself how to hack my Switch and installed a pirate copy I downloaded from a torrent. The game played perfectly and I got hours of enjoyment from it for free while Nintendo lost my $80 purchase price for the game because they tried to force me to buy plastic toys.

    Releasing new content after the game's release is one thing, locking me out of items in the base game is totally different. I paid for those items and still have not received them.

    That's just day 1 DLC tied to external toys which use NFC tech - you could just as easily have bought a programmable NFC card for literally a dollar a piece on Amazon and programmed that to be each of the 25 compatible NFCs to get the in-game items (none of which are required to actually enjoy the game). You're acting like this is the first time any game ever had Day 1 DLC and being scummy about it by using that to justify pirating.

    Be better.

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    RH

    Posted

    I removed the background colour to make it visible on light mode. All the styles associated with this post have been pasted in - if you want to lose those styles when pasting from elsewhere you can use Shift+Ctrl+V to paste as plain text, keeping in mind this would remove bolding as well. 

    Aside - if this is the only place you're posting these it might make more sense to just do it right here rather than in another editor. You should be able to post the blog as private and "Publish" it when you feel it's ready, so you can save your progress that way if it takes a while to write them up.

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    Gamegearguy

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

    I have never in my life clicked a forum post and been taken to a middle entry of a weblog without any context nor explanation that I had left the forum entirely.

    You still haven't.

     

    6 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

    you can't tell me it isn't confusing when the links show up on the forum side

    They don't.

     

    You're on a website. This website has multiple sections and features, including but not limited to:

    • a landing page (simple static web page)
    • a forum (most users' primary interactions with the site are in this section)
    • blogs
    • clubs
    • databases
    • a store
    • a calendar for events
    • a leaderboard

     

    You've simply decided to label the site a "forum" and ignore the existence of the rest. You've walked into a forest, saw a tree, and gone "This is a tree farm", completely ignorant of the wildlife and other fauna. 

    Again though, this is just jumbling up OP's blog needlessly. @Code Monkey you're an adult capable of rational thought, research, and exploration. Click around the website and let that be the end of the conversation. There's no need to carry it on any further. People don't like your questioning posts because it ISN'T the "easiest" method of obtaining information, because it's effort for others - you're being selfish in not doing the slightest bit of legwork and making others do it for you. My post here took time and effort I shouldn't have to put in when you can extremely easily just click around the website for like 2 minutes. So do that and stop asking objectively silly questions.

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    Gamegearguy

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

    I must be really missing something here, I thought this was a forum. Do people call forums weblogs now?

     

    I only ever click "unread content" and nothing else.

    Yes this is a forum, which has a blog feature: 

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    Anyway, this discussion has nothing to do with OP's blog, so I suggest just like... clicking around the website sometime. And nobody calls them "weblogs" - everyone calls them "blogs".

    Gamegearguy

    Posted

    Yeah nobody gave him any shit, I was just checking in on the post which had some attitudinal tone to it. I didn't give a warning or anything at all, it was not heated in the slightest. After that single post and then his apology literally nothing else happened so I'm not sure where this post is even coming from, especially the whole "Look people. I said I was sorry. What more do you want from me?" thing - it really didn't go further at all after he apologized, it was such a non-thing.

    I'm not about to beg people to say, but what @Richardhead said rings true - if you feel you've been wronged or that you need to step away, I'd encourage just taking a break. If that break becomes permanent, that's fine too; do whatever does you best.

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    MegaMan52

    Posted

    I love, by the way, how you so selectively choose to ignore comments like this, which I made on your GameCube blog post:

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    Really great content, thoroughly enjoyed reading it! Similar to Brickman I was/am a PS2 guy, but the GameCube always held a certain mystique to me as I didn't have one until later and when I got one all I had was... Odama... 

    Sadly I went to start playing my GameCube a few weeks ago and it seems to have issues reading discs. I'm not exactly in the mood for replacing a whole console right now so it's back on the backburner. 

    But fuck me, right?

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    MegaMan52

    Posted

    Really great content, thoroughly enjoyed reading it! Similar to Brickman I was/am a PS2 guy, but the GameCube always held a certain mystique to me as I didn't have one until later and when I got one all I had was... Odama... 

    Sadly I went to start playing my GameCube a few weeks ago and it seems to have issues reading discs. I'm not exactly in the mood for replacing a whole console right now so it's back on the backburner. 

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