What is the main reason you buy amiibo?

[Torillian]

Samus Aran said:

Torillian said:
"So I've seen quite a few people complain here that amiibo are on-disk dlc locked behind a big paywall." I doubt you've seen anyone contend that the amiibos themselves are on-disk dlc locked behind a paywall, but that the content locked to amiibos is. And on that notion they are by definition correct, regardless of the main reason that people buy amiibos.

You can suggest that the content isn't very meaningful, but it is by definition:
"on-disk"
"dlc"
"behind a paywall"

And if you don't mind that that's fine, but they are what they are.

When people complain that content is locked away behind a $30 paywell and that Nintendo is so evil for doing it then I just have to smile and laugh to myself.

Is it really worth complaining about when most of this stuff was developed in less than a day?

People clearly don't feel cheated as they're buying them for the figurines, not the content.

If it wasn't for amiibo, most of the stuff wouldn't even be in the games. I doubt they would have thought of adding these amiibo costumes in MK8 if it wasn't for amiibo.

To some it isn't the type of content that matters, it's that the company sold you a disc and put on that disc something that you have to pay for to unlock.  They just don't like that conceptually, it's like if I bought a backpack and it came with a sticker, but in order to use the sticker I would have to send the company an extra 50 cents.  Sure the sticker doesn't really matter and the backpack does not need the sticker to function, but it's how it's packaged that people take issue with.

On the point of most of the DLC wouldn't exist without amiibos, I think lots of DLC is extra like that, and it's unfortunate that many gamers have gotten kind of greedy and want anything that releases for a game for free or they deem the original release as unfinished.  Simply judge a game based on what it is at the time of your purchase, if you don't think it's a good enough value than don't purchase it, but don't let the presence or not o extra DLC somewhere taint your view on the product in front of you.