| Cerebralbore101 said: I wasn't trying to make any of them fit a specific criteria. You asked why would MS allow a publisher to release an incomplete game. I simply pointed out that MS itself has released incomplete games in the past. It's as if you've gone hunting and said "Why aren't there any deer to hunt? I really want to shoot a 12 point buck!". And then when I point out that there is an entire herd of deer just past the clearing you reply with "but none of them are 12 pointers!" It doesn't matter. The fact is that there are deer past the clearing. The fact is that MS has released incomplete games in the past. |
Glad you can admit you weren't trying to apply any context. Also, your comparisons are all very convoluted and mostly stupid. To make it simple for you, someone mentioned publishers purposely chopping up games and putting them on GamePass to sell people expansions. I asked why MS would allow that to happen. You chimed in with three games that neither a) were chopped up, or b) have paid expansions being sold to gamers. The only game you listed that even has an expansion is Gears 5 and guess what? It was free for GamePass users. Kind of hard to chop a game up and sell us expansions when only one of the games has an expansion and it's free.
| Cerebralbore101 said: You are confusing grinding for the items in Gears 5 for paying for them with actual money. How much would it cost to buy every skin outright? |
The same amount of money it could cost you to buy every Amiibo and Amiibo card: $0.
You just scan your friends Amiibo credit card, silly :)
| Cerebralbore101 said: Hoo boy! Talk about a false equivalency! If you and a friend both want an Amiibo item and the friend lets you scan his Amiibo your friend has paid once. If you and a friend both want a skin in Gears 5 without grinding your friend would have to pay twice. The Gears 5 skin is absolutely worthless once purchased. Most Amiibo actually go up in value. The Gears 5 skins make up a significant amount of cosmetic content in Gears 5. The entirety of all Amiibo unlock less than 5% of the game's total cosmetic content. The Amiibo cost physical labor to produce, and ship. The Gears 5 servers can issue infinite skins for practically no cost at all. |
You have no idea what Amiibos cost to make, or how much Gears skins cost to make, or how much of either content make up the total content. Also I love how you are admitting here that Splatoon users only get 95% of the game unless they dive into Amiibo hunting. Sounds like an incomplete game to me. Congrats, you're one of us!
| Cerebralbore101 said: Another strawman. I said it isn't locked behind buying anything. You removed the word "buying" from the sentence in order to build yourself another strawman. |
You keep using that word. I don't think you know what that word means.
| Cerebralbore101 said: Those Amiibo trading cards were released in conjunction with Happy Home Designer (a spinoff game that was panned by both critics and fans alike). Nintendo decided to forward their functionality into New Horizons, but the cards themselves were discontinued long before Switch was even a thing. |
Woah so you're saying a game released in 2020 has content locked behind cards that were discontinued prior to 2017. Sounds like another incomplete game. Wowzers!
| Cerebralbore101 said: I didn't spend $30 for content. I spent $30 for plastic toys to go on my shelf. Hell, one of them was bought all the way back in 2015 with the OG Splatoon. I also have four Metroid Amiibos. Guess what? I haven't even scanned them despite owning them for two years now. I just bought them because I wanted some cool Metroid related plastic statues. |
Imagine shitting on people for enjoying a game because you think it's incomplete when you yourself are spending money on Amiibo toys to unlock content in games. Hilarious.
| Cerebralbore101 said: I agree that Gamepass will never completely take over the industry. |
Cool, so then you also agree that no one should give a crap about your silly hypothetical.
| Cerebralbore101 said: My mistake. Could you clarify by what you meant by "you are clueless when it comes to how GaaS type games work"? |
No thanks, you seem allergic to reason. You seem so scared of GaaS that you will literally jump through hoops to make excuses for the live service games you play while you simultaneously degrade others for playing live service games you aren't into. You're boring, I'm done.
