| RolStoppable said: Even if Nintendo releases paid DLC before the end of August, my points still wouldn't become invalid. In order to become guilty of hypocrisy, people would have to defend Nintendo for this hypothetical paid DLC you speak of. But I am not arguing about anything in the future, I am merely explaining the past and the present. Your point has changed a little bit since the last post, but it's not much of an improvement. The fact remains that people won't have to pay extra in the latter situation, so Splatoon is a lot more similar to Hyrule Warriors' Cia, Volga and Wizzro (all of them got added as playable characters via a free update, but their movesets and everything else were already on the disc) than to Capcom's practices. Since most of the complaints about free updates are coming from people who don't own a given game, I'd say they missed the boat regarding Hyrule Warriors (which also added a bunch of other important things via free updates). Splatoon is a bigger game, so it gets more attention; but if people actually cared about the issue, they would have raised it as a negative for Hyrule Warriors last fall. |
If the said paid DLC is on disc, that would only make my point. Of course, most of the complaints are from people who don't own the game, but that can also can be observed on all the people that say that this isn't a big deal for Splatoon but were criticizing the DLC policies of several big games in the last few years for the same reason even if the game isn't even available in their platform.
These issues not being raised for said games is just because Nintendo gets a free pass for almost everything they do, both from fans and critics.
