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psychicscubadiver on 21 November 2018
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Wyrdness said:
psychicscubadiver said:

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.

It is equivalent to EA though because ultimately it still locks content that is in the game that's why it comes across as anti consumer to people as the's no other way to access the content already there even though you've paid for the game, giving people options clearly is something Nintendo got the message on as they started doing it with the games that have come afterward like SMO. Imagine if Smash did the same with unlocking characters to get the point people are putting forward, I have several Amiibos I don't feel cheated if everyone has access to the content why? Because one I still have the collectible and two they work with multiple games.

Then how should they include content for the Amiibos? It would be a logistical nightmare to attempt to include the content on the Amiibo themselves. And you've rather missed my point if you're making an analogy to Smash locking characters behind Amiibos. Fighters are a core part of gameplay and I said gameplay should not be locked behind Amiibos. However, cosmetics are perfectly fine to be exclusive. Not all content is equal and minor content like cosmetics is perfectly acceptable as exclusive in my opinion.