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mZuzek said:
super_etecoon said:

I said nothing about openly criticizing a company that people love.  I'm all for being critical, you should see me vent on Other M.  And if a friend did something shitty, if you want to take it to a personal level, I certainly wouldn't make a public stand against them.  I'd tell them in a friendly way that they were behaving in an uncool manner.  But this isn't a personal friend, of course.  I'm simply suggesting that creating a cry campaign against a company to demand a free product is pretty sad, and that such energy would better be used for something more worthwhile. Again, I'm not against the sentiment, I'm against openly creating a campaign to cause a company to give away something for free to save PR face.  It's silly.  If you don't like the product, don't buy it. Them adding SMG2 to an underwhelming collection isn't going to sway the haters anyway. 

I agree you shouldn't create a public outrage against a friend, but just as the whole situation is different when it comes to a worldwide company, so is the fact that you can't talk to them personally, making a public stand is the only way anyone can get to them - though in the case of Nintendo, it's pretty unlikely to ever impact anything anyway.

Also, no one's asking for them to give us Galaxy 2 for free. People are saying Galaxy 2 should be included in a $60 collection, a collection in which it absolutely belongs in, and would cost Nintendo barely no money to include given how basic the ports are. Last time I checked, $60 isn't free. I get what you mean, of course. Nintendo decided that the collection is worth $60 without Galaxy 2, and therefore adding it retroactively would be "for free" in their eyes, but not to the eyes of the public. It's not that people want Galaxy 2 for free, it's that they think that this collection might've been actually worth $60 with it included, but definitely isn't without it.

If anyone's doing it for PR reasons, they live in the past. Nintendo's been immune to any serious PR backlash this generation, probably as a result of an unbelievable amount of new Nintendo fanboys showing up from all sides of the internet defending their every single decision, despite the fact that Nintendo's done a lot of anti-consumer things since 2017.

We're well off topic by now, and certainly the anti-consumer practices of Nintendo probably deserve their own thread.  

But I do think that for all the apologists like myself who routinely defend Nintendo and many of its actions, I believe there are an equal number of detractors such as yourself that routinely call Nintendo out almost out of habit.  Many of my favorite Nintendo loving YouTubers are guilty of this as well, never forgetting to hold a grudge about some slight from Nintendo's very long past.  But I don't see you trying to organize some "Give us some Free Stuff, Nintendo" campaigns, for as much as you vent.  You simply state your piece (or pieces), vote with your wallet, and call it a day.  That's as much effort as I think it's worth and nothing more.