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[Torillian]

lewisgerm said:

well excuse me for trying to utilize the tiniest bit of influence i have over the industry.

look, torillian, your set of values is a little different than mine, but that doesn't mean yours is right. microsoft and sony are nothing but LEECHES on this industry. they in no way care about the consumer as evidenced by their support of things like online pass and now locking out single player content for people who buy the game used is an ALL TIME LOW.

so, yes, i am going to try to screw these developers out of every new sale that i can. its the right thing to do.

Even if MS and Sony are leeches on the industry that still isn't a reason to hurt all the third parties.  That logic makes sense if you do it with first parties (still extremely petty) but you're doing it with every title on those platforms which means you're hurting a bunch of third party developers that have just chosen the wrong horse according to you, and that is despicable.  

I could come up with reasons Nintendo doesn't care about consumers.  Like making peripherals and then dumping them almost immediately with little to no software support, not caring about how consumers wanted an online experience (only basement dwelling nerds want that), and boning over Mother fans for years (yeah I'm still bitter) and recent NoA localization stupidity.  But with all that said even though Ninty isn't my favorite company in the world (and MS even less so since I haven't found enough of a reason to buy a console from them yet) I would never do something that directly harms them because I know that others like what they make and it's extremely self centered to think that the industry should bend to my will alone.