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irstupid on 02 March 2017
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RolStoppable said:
irstupid said:

1. The point I used is teh same as someone saying buy new instead of used to support dev. Obviously if I can get 100 of my freidns to buy the game that is better than me doing anything, but that is apples to oranges. Talking just about oneself right now.

2. Well this just gets down to what one considers important. You can get an SD card for like $50 that will last plenty of time, and lets say you put 20 games on that card. That means for an extra $2.50 on top of each game price it becomes completely portable and not having to carry around a pack of 20 game carts on the go, or fid space for 20 game cases on the shelf. To some that is worth the price and some. To others, they want the card and the case and wouldnt' do digital even if onboard storage was 10000 terabytes.  But take Amazon prime for example. I'm a member. I get 20% off pre-ordered games. Yet I don't buy physical, so I"m missing out on that chance. So hearing my digital purchases gets me more rewards to purchase other digitals for say 20% off as well is nice.

3. Didn't know that. So the system can be abused both ways. But are you sure. I seem to recal when I entered in older games into mynintnedo back in the day I would not get as many points as a new game.

1+2. Well yes, you can buy digital if you want to give more money to devs, but like you said, ultimately each customer gets to decide what is best for themselves. But no, buying digital or physical is not the same as buying new or used, because a used games sale doesn't give any money to the developer. There is no reason to condemn physical purchases as something lesser, because it's the customer who spends the money and he or she who has the money gets to decide what is worth paying for.

3. With My Nintendo you don't have to enter anything manually. As soon as you purchase something on the eShop, gold coins get added automatically to your My Nintendo account. What you recall must be either Club Nintendo or wrong altogether.

1. Wasn't comparing buying digital or physical as new or used. Was just saying that digital does give more to dev tahn physical, so I feel like I'm supporting the dev better. Just brought up new/used as an example that many people use when saying buying used hurts developers. I'm not saying buying physical hurst devs, just saying digital helps them more.

2. Like I said, I have been digital for a long time. The system I'm refering to was the prior one. The one you got free sound tracks or pins or whatever each year if you made platinum status and stuff. Probably club nintendo as you said. I just recal entering the code you got with the disc and then picking somethig that ends up in my closet for years not being touched as my reward. Maybe my club nintendo pins or majora's mask soundtrack unoopened will be worth a few bucks someday. Who knows.