| Mr_No said: I'm not a Metroid fan by all means, but it's ridiculous to petition to cancel a game due to some people disliking it. I think time and money has been spent already on it and development already made progress. This is only diminishing the relevance for petitions. |
Although I do agree that the game won't be cancelled regardless, I find it slightly silly to say petitions are at all relevant to begin with. It takes a lot for a petition to be taken seriously, and more often than not, petitions are actively undermined during and after being submitted by a larger number of people than that which took the time to stand up against the issue with even just signing their name.
As for this petition, I'll admit, I laughed. I laughed a lot when I learned about it. It's just so ridiculous, but at the same time, it is so refreshing. Nintendo fans have always seemed to be the ones that are endlessly content with whatever Nintendo pushes out, no matter how good it really is. I mean, they praise Amiibos, cancerous DRM figures that need to die. It's just interesting to see here that there are lines that fans won't let Nintendo cross. I find it odd that this is the first thing in recent years that Nintendo fans have truly gotten up in arms about in a major way, but it's still good to see fans not just taking whatever gets shoveled their way lying down.
I doubt anybody signing that petition genuinely expects the game to be cancelled. This is just a way for their voice to be heard in a majority fashion to tell Nintendo that they are dissatisfied, and that this is not what they wanted. You can make the spinoff argument, but even then, they shouldn't have called it Metroid Prime, as Metroid Prime is a series of Samus focused games. Insult to injury is that what they showed looked no better than a DS game. Even if it isn't represenative of the final product, it's still not a graceful introduction. Honestly, it looks like they're up porting a cancelled DS project or something.
Really, just strip the Metroid name, and it could have been an interesting new IP. Instead they tried to use name recognition to sell the game, and it backfired so hard that even changing the name won't change the damage this will do to sales in the long run. I personally have no interest in this title and don't feel all that intensely about it, but I completely understand why people are unhappy. Considering Other M was kind of a flop, this could have been a chance to give the series a great revival after eight years since Prime 3. Nintendo instead chose to make a very risky move and are suffering the backlash for it.
