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Aielyn on 02 April 2014
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BMaker11 said:
Really?? How is it any different that telling people to play SF2 on max difficulty, getting a perfect in every round, and beating Bison in less than 2 minutes in order to unlock Sheng Long? People wanted Sheng Long, just like people now may want Frostbite games on WiiU, but neither are actually possible.

Three things, here: the claim that you can unlock Sheng Long didn't come from Capcom, it wasn't possible at the time to release add-ons to the game, and the Frostbite Engine is entirely possible on Wii U, given that the Wii U is stronger than the PS3 and 360, which the engine does run on.

BMaker11 said:
Nobody forced a WiiU on you, then laughed at you when certain games don't come to it and said "maybe you shouldn't have gotten a WiiU".

Are you seriously saying this? The analogy is that you're blaming the people who bought Wii U's, rather than the company that made the tasteless joke. You're saying that, if people are offended, that's their problem, when all they did was buy a Wii U under the understanding that the company was going to be fully supporting the system (remember the "unprecedented partnership"? The thing where, until about 3 months after launch, they kept saying that they loved the Wii U and were going to support it fully?).

BMaker11 said:
And don't say my analogy with the SF prank isnt applicable since it wasn't a developer that made the joke. EGM was still a business that's held to a standard and had costumers, same as EA.

I'm sorry, but you have to be joking, right? You don't think there's a difference between EGM making an April Fools joke about an already-released game made by another company, in which you have to do something that is practically impossible in order to unlock the character, the effort going into which would involve the person playing the heck out of the game and probably enjoying it along the way, and a company that makes games saying "hey, we're releasing our games on this system. PSYCH!"

Surely you must see the difference between these two situations. And surely you must see the difference between the claim that a character is unlockable in a game and the claim that you're going to be supporting a gaming system that you said for about two years you'd support, before suddenly changing your mind after people had already bought it. Note that EA had supposedly had Frostbite attempt it a bit, some time in late 2011 or early 2012... but didn't bother telling anybody that they'd given up until mid-2013.

On the one hand, you have EGM mocking Capcom. On the other, you have Frostbite mocking gamers. Funny how some people try to make out as though these two situations are the same, or that Frostbite mocking gamers is actually a good thing.

Just admit it - you aren't saying "you're oversensitive" because of the situation, but because you think mocking Nintendo fans is fair game. In other words, you have more contempt for your fellow gamer than for companies that mock them.