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psychicscubadiver on 21 November 2018
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Wyrdness said:
psychicscubadiver said:
Honestly, I agree with Runa. It's okay for an amiibo to offer an exclusive cosmetic bonus, and silly to complain that you can't get the exclusive cosmetic without it. It gives a unique value to the amiibo without locking out any gameplay. However, I would agree that hard mode shouldn't be locked behind an amiibo as that's an actual piece of gameplay not a cosmetic bonus.

Problem with this argument is when the said amiibo is not easy to get a hold of whether due to price or availability then you can't access the extra content that is what people are saying here at least add the content in the dlc season pass as an alternative option. The exclusive content is also already in the base game so isn't added by the amiibo it's only unlocked and is so far the only way to unlock it where as SMO gave players an alternative method of unlocking them meaning for a significant number of players the content is permanently locked in BOTW, it's a valid complaint.

Any complaint is valid to the person making it; my disagreement certainly doesn't invalidate your opinion.

However, I have a different opinion on it. Amiibo, while they are fun little figurines, have a main selling point of interacting with games. If they don't provide a unique or interesting bonus the Amiibo buyers feel cheated and if you lock too much behind Amiibos regular buyers of the game feel cheated. I think that exclusive cosmetics strike that balance very well as they aren't a game-changing feature, but a pleasant little bonus. Making those cosmetics available to everyone, losing the exclusivity of the amiibo reward,  tips that balance against the Amiibo buyers. And any amiibo content would have to be on disc. New games use earlier amiibo so the the data must be on the game and simply treat the amiibo as a key. Otherwise amiibo would be unable to interact with any game released after they were made. That's simple logistics, not an EA-level 'locking away part of the disc' move.