If by people you mean me, which is likely as you are writting that on my thread, feel free to keep thinking that way, but I'm putting pressure and press, as you said, on a matter of a bad anti-consumer practice, you may not believe that, but our universe does not cycle around Nintendo! Yes, that's shocking, I know it! So maybe, just maybe, you may starting trying to think there is something written on the first post of this thread, that describes an issue, and that the issue described there is the reason why the subject is being discussed, not a petty and trivial reason as the company behind it just because you think talking about it makes our universe keep functioning, you know, that may not be the case, believe me.

"People just put a lot of pressure and press on Nintendo because they're well...Nintendo."

The ways people choose to close their eyes and pretend there is no actual reason because it harms something they like...
It's never a problem, the problem is pointing the problem, because that has to be persecution, it can't be an actual problem, nah.

Eh, I wouldn't go as far. They could have had the decency to provide a link to the Nintendo website, even if they chose to rewrite the news in their own words. It definitely doesn't hurt to provide a source for the information because the one in question did not come from the Direct video which they posted.

So... what I've postponed to say since yesterday is that locking content behind a toy isn't new to this generation because Skylanders is older than that, and in that IP it's omnipresent. amiibo is still harmless in comparison. And in this specific case that belongs to the most offending uses of amiibo, it should still be pretty easy to enjoy the game without the UFO ability.

Although I guess this is similar to all those censorship issues that have been going on lately, that we should be scared of the implications for the future. But amiibo has been around for about 1.5 years now and Nintendo had plenty of opportunities to abuse them, yet they did not in the majority of cases. And even the bad examples of amiibo usage are far from as bad as other things that we've seen this generation. This thread is classic overreaction.

"Don't like it, don't buy it" doesn't solve the problem for people who are being denied access to stuff on the game disc they paid for unless they buy an additional plastic toy.

For example, as a big fan of the SNES Starfox, I would love to play the newly announced retro mode where the Arwing, its lasers/bombs, and the music/sound effects are ripped from the SNES original. That content will be on the disc that I will spend $80 on. But I'll be denied access to it unless I then go and buy a plastic toy. That's shit.

It's worse because you need it for so many Nintendo games. If I dint want to play skylanders or Disney infinity then dont buy it. But Nintendo are tying amiibo content to almost every game. Locking content in  many games behind an expensive toy.

"but other publishers do this that and this" is not a defence, and I'm not sure why you're trying so hard to defend cause all you're doing is trying to make other companies sound worse rather than addressing the issue.

"Don't like it, don't buy it" doesn't solve the problem for people who are being denied access to stuff on the game disc they paid for unless they buy an additional plastic toy.

For example, as a big fan of the SNES Starfox, I would love to play the newly announced retro mode where the Arwing, its lasers/bombs, and the music/sound effects are ripped from the SNES original. That content will be on the disc that I will spend $80 on. But I'll be denied access to it unless I then go and buy a plastic toy. That's shit.

Yep, amiibo are a expensive key to on disc-dlc. The problem is that people defend it because other companies does it, as if that was a reasonable excuse.