Splatoon post-launch plans - is it good?

[Samus Aran]

Bofferbrauer said:

mZuzek said:

spemanig said:

It's insane the lengths people will go to pardon this game. Any other online shooter released by any other company would have been absolutely crucified for daring to launch their game with only one online mode and 5 maps. I called the severe lack of content months ago, but even I wasn't pessimistic enough to consider that there wouldn't even be ample maps at launch.

Really? I felt like the actual situation is the extreme opposite.

It seems like, except from a small group of people, this game has only gotten hate from all corners of the world ever since it was announced it wouldn't have voice chat and custom games (which was false in the end). Right now, people seem to be looking at every inch of content this game has attempting to find something to bitch about and say it's crap. This includes you.

As I said on the other thread, this isn't more devoid of content at launch than Mario Kart 8 was.

From what I played, it didn't really feel yet like there are only 5 maps. Even just having 2 maps at a time during the Demo was something you didn't really feel because the map changes so much with the splattering.

 

@Spemanig: Did Evolve got crucified? If you want to compare Splatoon to any other game content-wise, that's probably the best one to do so as they have similarities on many levels. The main difference in the content philosophy is that in Evolve you have to pay for additional content while you get it for free at Splatoon. Evolve got criticized for it's moneygrabbing, but most reviews liked the gameplay and very few had anything to even say about the basic content - which means no bad thing to say about it. Since here the additional content comes for free, I don't think reviews or reception will be bad, as the things which went bad on Evolve are not present in Splatoon.

You can always count on critics to ignore common sense.