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ninjaman003 on 22 August 2014
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binary solo said:
mZuzek said:
binary solo said:

Pokemon is the only Nintendo game that actually drew me in, odd because I can't for the life of me figure out why kept wanting to play it. Unfortunately for Nintendo they made the game (Diamond I think) impossible to have 2 game saves on one cartridge. So basically because my son had his own game going, all I could do is basically play the game for a short time but not actually have a game save of my own. Which means once I put it down I had no desire to pick it up again. Nintendo's own form of DRM, but this time it's GRM within the family, as opposed to preventing used game sales, weird. I've had my Pokemon experience, became weirdly addicted for a brief period, and now I'm over it.

Every Pokémon game works like this, actually. And don't blame Nintendo for it - they're not the ones who make the games.

Doesn't make it right or reasonable.

Nintendo's the publisher, and if they don't own the IP directly they own all the rights to all intents and purposes. Which means DRM is ultimately the decision of Nintendo not the game maker. If Nintendo said, "make multiple game saves happen" it would happen. If they simply don't give any direction on this it means they tacitly support this form of DRM, which is as worthy of criticism as any pther form of DRM. But it's Nintendo so they get a free pass on it.

It really is one of the reasons I said "fug dis game". If I'd actually been able to play through the whole of Diamond without having to buy my own game, when my son already has it, I may have been very encouraging of (and maybe even contributed to) buying the next game, and the next and the next. As the financial powerhouse of my home I was put off and so I became negatively disposed towards future Pokemon purchases, which means no further Pokemon games have been purchased.

That's a really bad reason to not buy any more Pokemon games. The reason they didn't start out with more than one file was because of limitations on the GameBoy. That's no excuse now, but if you both wanted to play it all the time, would you really want to share it. Again it's not an amazing reason, but there is some.