KManX89 said:
Ultr said:
Wait just like pokemon? but for a fraction of the price? outrageous!!
Also I thought nobody is gonna buy the game anyway. So its not like its gonna affect anyone ^^
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Except, as I just pointed out earlier, unlike Konami, Pokemon has a perfectly valid reason for only allowing 1 save slot: so you can't farm unlimited one-time capture Pokemon and trade them to yourself via a third party. Ergo, it's a way to stop cheaters from having 6 lv 100 Mewtwos on their squad.
What's Konami's excuse for locking additional saves behind a paywall? Oh, right, greed.
Xxain said:
This is such a stupid post. It reeks of call to emotion and typical of call to emotion, logic takes a backseat. Konami is not a video games company. They are a entertainment business. They partake in many fields of entertainment - Toys, cards, gambling, Anime fitness ext. You only know Konami as a video games company because you are a gamer. There are people who only know Konami because they own Yu-Gi-Oh. What you are telling us is Konami should cease to exist as a company because they are not leveraging video games IP's in a way that suitable to your taste? They guys who enjoy MGS3 Pachinko should not matter, the millions of Yu-Gi-Oh fans dont matter. Do I need to go on? Konami can sit on their IP's for as long as they choose BECAUSE THEIR MONEY MADE THEM, THEY OWN THEM. If you bought a ferrari and you decide that you only want drive it once per year that is YOUR choice because YOU Own it. Do you think someone should be entitled to drive your car because they decided you weren't driving it enough? Do you respect/understand ownership laws. "Hey! I noticed you didn't come how for 3 weeks, sooo I made myself comfortable," said your neighbor.
Konami is not obligated to stay a video game/publisher. Konami is a arcade developer and their biggest hits dont transfer well as console games which is why they favor mobile and gambling; they can take full advantage of their arcade roots. MGS and PES are they only super successful console games Konami has. Every installment of castlevania sold less and less. Silent Hil peaked at 2 then downhill, Suikoden was never big. Maybe if gamers dropped the attitude that every game has to be 100 hours and a adopt a replay to master attitude instead maybe we wouldn't have lost our arcade style games from developers like SEGA and Konami? They announced last year they would have more switch revivals. Gamers have develop a toxic level of entitlement though.
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And if it wasn't for us "entitled AAA gamers", Konami wouldn't be ALIVE today. They're only still around to sit on those IPs and slap em on pachinkos for cheap short-term profit because we GAVE them our money. Ergo, we have every right to voice our displeasure with their shady business practices. If game publishers want good PR, then they have to take care of the people who take care of THEM, that's how the community works and it's always been that way, but what do I know? They stopped caring about us gamers years ago, and it shows with them shoehorning their beloved franchises into pachinkos, cancelling highly-anticipated games (Silent Hills), selling mobile games for $50 (SBR) and selling asset flips for $40 (MGS) and locking every basic feature imaginable behind an exorbitant paywall to boot.
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You gave them YOUR money because THEY made a product you WANTED. They dont owe you anything after that handshake and vice versa. Imagine SE forwarding a email to all its player base saying, "Remember when made FF7 on PS1 that you bought? Weeeell FF14 (old version) isnt doing so well so we think that because we gave you that wonderful experience all those years ago you should support ff14 with a subscription! #dontcareifyoudontplayjustbuy.
Lets flip the script with Konami! They are responsible for some of the most beloved IP's that you played! You should be obligated to support everything they do to say thank you for them enriching your life. Does that sound stupid? A relationship between a business and its customer is a 2 way street, not one way: They make something good they get your money. They get your money when they make something good. The end.
