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pokoko on 24 April 2015
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sundin13 said:
pokoko said:

It's hard to tell if he is or is not including Nintendo as following the "easiest way to make money" in that blurb, which is why I phrased my post the way I did.  If he is, then good for him for admiting it.

It still doesn't change the fact that many people who were universally against Day One DLC are now throwing out excuses and justifications for Day One DLC.


I think you are stretching the argument a bit...Day One DLC as it exists now is generally considered to be one of the more minor issues, if it is considered an issue at all. When Day One DLC is extremely minor stuff like cosmetics, there is really no reason to complain about it and that is really all it is in Splatoon (as I described above, the challenges add nothing and the costumes are costmetic and seemingly single player only).

What I read Sakurai to be talking about are the instances in which it feels as if a meaningful part of the game has been removed, from important story content, to important characters or actually finishing the base game. Cosmetics aren't the issue and if anyone makes them out to be, that seems like an incredibly petty complaint.

What you're saying "isn't considered an issue at all" had plenty of people up in arms on these forums not that long ago.  If it's no longer considered an issue, why do you think that is?  The answer is an obvious one but I would probably be banned for saying it, even though it's absolutely true.

As for my own opinion, cosmetic DLC has never bothered me.  As I've said many times before, let people with money to burn subsidize my own experience all they want.  More money to developers is a good thing in the long run.

Even most of the DLC that people complain about as being "split up" probably isn't.  Games are rarely thrown together as developers go.  Instead, they are painstakingly planned out before any coding actually begins, which includes having writers write DLC.  There is a LOT of quality DLC out there not made by Nintendo.  

The problem I have with Amiibo DLC is that it's locked behind expensive toys.  This is an intentional incentive to buy Amiibo and anyone who says otherwise is lying.  They WANT and EXPECT some people say, "I really like that costume, so I guess I need to buy this Amiibo."  If not, then it would be avaliable separately.

Let me ask you this, and I'd like an honest answer--if EA, long before Amiibo were announced, had locked cosmetic armor upgrades for Titanfall behind mecha toys that were avaliable Day One in special bundles, how do you think this forum would have reacted?  I think we all know how many "lol EA" posts would have been made.