| Ka-pi96 said: I'm sure people are enjoying it as is, but if they are enjoying what there is now surely having more maps and stuff would just make them happier, no? And how is intentionally holding back finished content anything other than a horrible practice? If the content wasn't complete, then that would be absolutely fine. If however it is already complete and ready to play then it should be playable. |
I'm of two minds. On one hand paying $60 for what's in the game and the promise of more content is like having a season pass built into the base package, which I don't like. On the other hand, I don't subscribe to the view that 100% of a game's content should be playable immediately upon startup. Of course in most games you have to earn the ability to play late-game content by completing the content that comes 'before' it, but there are also instances of games like Animal Crossing, a heavily calendar-based game where certain content is only available on specific days. Then there are games like Fire Emblem: Awakening and Monster Hunter, which have loads of free DLC that is fully ready at launch (at least in the late Western releases), yet is steadily distributed over the course of several months.
In the end the reason Splatoon upsets people while Fire Emblem and Monster Hunter do not is because the latter two games had hundreds of hours of content in the base game, while Splatoon is considered short without its DLC. I think that's a valid complaint, or at least I did until Nintendo released a huge expansion for the game three days after release. Thankfully there's a very simple solution to this temporary shortage of content, which is to not buy the game until that shortage has become an abundance.
| DonFerrari said: If I don't like voice chat I can mute it, you don't need to take it away. |
Voice chat is not something that was "taken away." It was never in the game to begin with. Understand that to implement it would cost development resources as well as system resources during gameplay. That's quite a bit to ask from a team who doesn't believe it would add anything of value to their game.
