Sakurai calls DLCs these days a scam

[DonFerrari]

sundin13 said:

Many of you are reading the title as Sakurai's words. They aren't. Sakurai isn't claiming all DLC is a scam, and thinking that he is is rather ridiculous. He is quite obviously talking about a specific type of DLC...

pokoko said:

Actually, that you seem willing to ignore all the previous complaining is the curious thing.  If you want to pretend that it never happened, then be my guest.  On top of that, though obviously we are talking about Nintendo fans in this instance, I've never said they have any kind of copyright on hipocrisy.  What I'm talking about is fans being against something until it comes home to them, which is something that has visited ALL the factions.

I still find that to be an incredibly silly complaint.

For one, video games as a whole harbored largely negative views of DLC for a long time, and many still hold those views (both Nintendo fans and non-Nintendo fans alike). The fact that some Nintendo fans don't have a problem with all DLC isn't exactly radical or fanboyish thinking.

Secondly, people change their minds. Logically, it makes all the sense in the world for those who primarily play on Nintendo consoles to have been against DLC practices. For years, livid complaining was present in the media and fanbases and we really had nothing but that to base our perceptions of DLC on. Then, Nintendo started bringing DLC to some of their games, and many were and some still are against that, and people started seeing DLC that wasn't negatively affecting games.

There have been numerous people outside of the Nintendo fanbase who have given Nintendo props for doing DLC right in most cases (not to say their handling of it has always been perfect). What you are seeing is people changing their mind. That is not hypocrisy. Now, if you see someone posting in one thread that Nintendo DLC is always perfect and in another they say that another DLC is terrible out of principle, that would be hypocrisy, however, that mostly occurs on within individuals and not fanbases and that sort of generalization does nothing to help the conversation.

We all know who the guys that think a certain pratice from one company is good and from others are bad are...

And yes, most DLC are useless, some are good but pricey, others are very good. But in the case of the SSBU DLC I won't say they are good because they are just extra chars and they are somewhat expensive... but since the game is complete without them I have no problem... as I haven't had problems with any game I have bought that have several DLCs.