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burninmylight on 28 January 2013
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kitler53 said:
MDMAlliance said:
kitler53 said:
it's perfectly reasonable for additional services?

..and here i thought the $300 spent an a system advertised to have cool features like gamepad support would have been enough of a surcharge. it's not like it's an upgrade to the game you bought, it's an upgrade to the wiiU's OS and when was the last time anyone has charged for OS support?!? nintendo can do whatever they want but the sheer fact they can discount the game means they know you already bought it means it is insulting to make you buy it again even at a reduced cost.

this is just bad business. nintendo's ultra fans make be able to justify this to themselves out of love, most reasonable people will not.


So if I buy hardware, then I'm entitled to all of the hardware's software capabilities for free?  Logic.

it's not about entitlement, it's about consumer expectations.  arguments about free vhs to dvd upgrades are ridiculous, there are obvious and reasonable technical limitations for putting a vhs tape into a disc player.  but when nintendo recreates the services and obviously knows that you already purchased the content but then says "too bad, rebuy the same content again" that's BS.  

if sony launches a services with their recent gaikai acquisition featuring the exact same content i've already purchased on psn but doesn't let me access my content i'd have two words for them, "fuck off".  i didn't have to rebuy my apps across the 3 iphones i've owned.  netflix didn't surcharge me when they created my iphone app, ps3 app, or vita app.  amazon went to far as to give me a digital copy of every CD i every bought from 1998 forward.  

i have higher standards than this from a software service provider.  you should too.

But you wouldn't be buying the game again,  you just have the option to add features to a game you already own. Let me ask you this: when you ported your iPhone apps across the different phones, did those apps get extra features in the process? If so, were those extra features that were not on your old phones free? Because the programmer/business that does that must really, really love giving away free stuff without profit.

I still use a Blackberry, and on it I purchased the Associated Press Stylebook for 2011 for $20. I can delete and redownload the app for free as many times as I want, but if I want the AP Stylebook 2012 or 2013, which are essentially the same thing with some updates and changes, I must pay for the discount price. Should I be upset that I don't automatically get the latest versions for free?