Club Nintendo...Kind of sucks

[Chazore]

Samus Aran said:

Chazore said:
Oh lawdy, this was a good read for a while but it stopped getting interesting once a disgusting anti consumer tactic was mentioned and lawded as being better than a free service.

Seriously marketing can brainwash people real bad that they don't realise it's had an adverse effect on them.

I buy Nintendo games and I'll be blunt, I don't give a care about what they give out for free because it's not something I need desperately in my life, I just buy and play the games I want and that's it, the last thing I want is another company's anti consumer service to replace a free service and lock certain games behind a pyawall, seriously that can fuck right off.

Funny thing was I bought Link between worlds this summer and the game released last Nov, I managed to buy it for half the price brand new and to boot I used research on where I was going to buy a copy meaning I knew exactly where to buy it cheaper than my regular GAME store.

While Nintendo's general pricing method is getting a bit old it certainly doesn't stop me from biding my time with playing other games and finding other areas around Europe to find what I want cheaply, I do the same for almost anything I want and can afford, why buy my Revoltech Evangelion figures from Amazon where they are more expensive (and mostly bootlegged at that) when I could use a Japanese provider who not only delivers to my area but also makes it cheaper to buy, why is common research such an unheard of concept to people that complain?, yes it would be nice if Nintendo lwoered some of their prices but their games are still in demand for some and even then you can find them cheaper in other areas of the world if you took some time out of your life to look.

Yes, Sony is so anti-consumerist, that's why it outsells Nintendo ten to one. You can do all the research you want, you won't find cheap Nintendo games where I live. 

I have never watched a Sony advertisement in my life. I did my research on PS Plus and saw that it provided more content than it costs. Such brainwashing! 

At least you can read between the lines without the ened for the winky face, I'll give you that.

 

Pray tell, where do you live?, I already know the answer I'm going to give you based on present economics data but the question is are you willing to accept reason?.

See I live on a small island, The Isle of Man (contary to popular belief that Americans in general don't know we exist and have one of the oldest parliments in the world next to Iceland) and we only have one HMV store, One Tescos, one PC world and one GAME store, the former not really selling many in the games dept but still being almost the same price as GAME sells for, now GAME in general award you points for buying games/hardware in general, being awarded points in which you can save up and eventually slash some pricing for products you wish to buy from them and all for just buying what you were going to buy in general, no added fee or price, that is a basic free deal because:

 

1)I'm buying the game I was going to buy anyway otherwise I've no reason to even enter the store in the first place (shocking I know)

2)There is no other requirement needed to obtain those points, nothing in the store gates you off but your currency in your bank/pocket (general resources all humans use in everyday life, another shocking concept based in reality).

Now apart from that one example, I can browse multiple stores in the EU that can deliver to my island, if all prices are the same I simply bide that thing humans call time and visit again (like how we wait for that brack friday deal/cyber Monday/January sales/easter sales/summer/autum/Xmas sales etc), there's also me going on vacation or visiting other european areas and as always when I do I'll always visit the game stores other EU countries have and browse.

The third and final advantage I have up my own sleeve is my currency having more value, meaning I can effectively buy my other games cheaply around the EU, you say you cannot find them cheaply around your area which tells me the place you came from is not doing so well economically, to which I'll ask; why are you even living in such a poor area?.

I can use the internet, venture around the world and take advantage of other market prices and their economy in general, why can't you simply do same?, it;s not rocket science and it;s certainly not hard, especially if you're claiming being more than happy to spend 1000 in your currency, money sounds like a complete non issue to you so why don't you take proper advantage of other world markets and their economies?.