| Dunban67 said: As a Wii U owner I am happy to have the opportunitty to buy a high profile ,3rd party game - I don t understand why so many Nintendo fans denounce the game like previous ,3rd party games then complain about it being delayed and decide to Boycott the game that you had already announced you would not buy, Then get upset that DLC may not be released for this same game. Step 1: 3rd party announces game for Wii u. - Denounce game as inferior to 1st party software and announce you will not be purchasing said 3rd party release Step 2: game release is delayed- Announce Boycott of game you were not going to purchase anyway Step 3: DLC may not come to said game that no one was going to buy and further boycotted Step 4: Boycott developer that has announced they will not be supporting the Wii u platform due to poor sales Step 5: call developer stupid for not throwing good money after bad |
You clearly haven't been following what people have said in all of this.
1. I, for instance, had full intention of buying Watch_Dogs for Wii U, when it was set to release alongside the other consoles.
2. When the delay was announced, it went from "definite buy" to "going to have to convince me, now", because if it's getting a 6 month delay, it had better be worth it.
3. One of the conditions of actually supporting the game was that DLC had to still be coming. I'm not supporting a third party that isn't going to support me and the games I buy from them. If this tweet is accurate, then that's a huge strike against the game (there are ways to compensate... no DLC because it's included in the base game, or much lower price, or extra exclusive content, or game significantly improved over the others with regards to its weaknesses).
Note that I didn't buy Call of Duty: Ghost... until the Freefall DLC was released for the system (for free, as was appropriate, considering). Then I bought the game, expecting that the next CoD would also be coming to the system. If the developers shows me respect, I'll be far more likely to support their product.
4. There was no plan to boycott. I bought Rayman Legends, and I bought Assassin's Creed III. This was to be my third Ubisoft title for the Wii U.
5. Developers are stupid for throwing money away - that is, wasting money on half-arsed ports rather than either not supporting in the first place (and providing real justification for that failure to support) or putting real effort into the game. At this point, it's looking like Watch_Dogs Wii U has been designed to fail - they're intentionally wasting money, from what I can see, to justify stopping support for the Wii U.
Consider EA. They had a supposed "partnership" with Nintendo, that was supposed to produce a heap of games. What did it produce? Four titles, all of which were sabotaged immediately. Mass Effect 3 was announced as a "special edition"... only to have Mass Effect Trilogy announced for the other systems, at the same price. Fifa 13 for Wii U was just a port of Fifa 12 for Wii with updated roster. Madden 13 Wii U was lacking the game engine that had been introduced for 360/PS3 that dramatically boosted quality of the game. And then Need for Speed Wii U was released six months late and EA had already announced no further support for the system before it launched
The ONLY possible interpretation, at this point, considering that it takes more than 6 months to develop a game, is that EA had already ceased all of their development for the Wii U, with the exception of NFS (which got delayed), prior to launch - it couldn't possibly be anything to do with sales. And since EA are treating me like crap, I'm not going to buy NFS, which was the only "decent" EA title on Wii U, from what I hear. And at this point, it looks like Ubisoft are following suit.
So I'm going to ask you this: why should I support a company that treats me like an undesirable customer, who seems to go out of their way to annoy me? Why should Nintendo system owners buy inferior titles late and at full price to show "support" for the publisher, who would then just use that support to justify more inferior, late titles (like Capcom did with Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles on Wii, for instance)? Why do people suggest that it's our fault for not buying their crap?
