Seriously. Let me ask you a completely honest question, Andrex: Why do you stick with Nintendo? No, don't give me the "they have games I want" reason, because that's bullshit and you know it (hurr rehash Pokemon on a damn yearly basis. Then rotate Mario, Zelda. Metroid/Donkey Kong? Wuts those?).
Eh? So you're saying that I haven't been enjoying their output this gen?
I dunno if they ran over your dog or something but you shouldn't care this much to hate someone who genuinely likes their games.
Other services/platforms are advancing and giving people more things.
Cool for them.
Nintendo honestly is stagnant and backwards thinking, why do you continue to support them?[Buying their games to play online is an exercise in masochism given the friendcode system and even then half the time the game won't work/connect even if you want to play with friends: Sup, Mario Kart DS?
The only disconnection problems I've ever had with WFC were with Pokemon DS games around their launch. Never had a problem with MK DS, Metroid Prime Hunters, Animal Crossing, FFCC Echoes of Time, MK Wii, etc. My experience with Brawl was playing friends was laggy, but playing random wasn't oddly enough.
Regardless, I'm not a primarily-online gamer. My tastes are mostly single-player games, with some local and online multiplayer every now and then. I'd love to see Nintendo be competitive with others, but they have fun games I want to play so I buy them. I don't make a big company-wide ban about it the same way I don't with EA or Activision even though both sometimes do "bad" things.
When you start factoring in the company behind the game more than the actual game itself, you've got a problem.
I'm not factoring the company itself into the equation. But let's be honest: Nintendo offers you
nothing the other platforms can't do better. Outside of singleplayer games. You have a valid criticism there, but there is still plenty of non-Nintendo singleplayer games in the JRPG/Platformer/strat variety on the other platforms.
I
really don't get the people that play Nintendo games and their hardware exclusively. Have they
not tried other platforms? Because the fact that they aren't demanding and holding Nintendo's feet to the fire about their services... Oh, hey, whatever did happen to the demo service that was supposed to happen? It kinda dried up... did it come back? Anyway, people not holding Nintendo's feet to the fire is mind boggling to me. The fact that people are starting to defend it is some weird stockholm syndrome.
Nintendo "ran over my dog" when they started to lose touch with what most people wanted and went their own way. Hey, that's great for them... except "their way" is assbackwards and a pain in the ass to use.
You may not have had issues with MK DS, MPH, etc. etc. etc.: But
I have. The same config with Sony/MS/PC games?
No issues. It's mind boggling how it's been
five years+ and Nintendo still can not get a competent online service with no issues up.
How so?
I mean instead of "accepting" friend requests, I've literally entered over 20 friend codes in the last 48 hours. And those were the requests I got via PM. How is that not a problem?
Wow, you literally entered in 240 characters in the last 48 hours instead of hitting 20 buttons. muffffffin, you gonna be alright?
and if you play another game with those people in the future, you won't have to enter the code again. which is, by the way, the reason why the mario kart thread is a wall of codes - for a lot of 3ds owners, it's the first real reason to even bother having "friends".
i'm not saying i wouldn't change that if i had my druthers, truly, but in the scheme of things, it's an annoyance rather than a genuine problem.
Sarcasm aside, it
is an annoyance. The fact that Nintendo gave the Wii, and hell the 3DS, a "universal friend code" that
no one uses (maybe the 3DS is starting to pick that up, I don't know and after the terrible online service and treatment from Nintendo, I can't care) is just another "Nintendo doesn't get it" factor.
Hell, let's not even mention that if you use the game on another hardware platform (3DS cart to another 3DS) without moving your online info, your friend-code
changes.
Compare that to XBL/Steam/PSN where I have a user account and that's it: It's mine. I can change my name on XBL with a small ($10) service fee, but that account doesn't change if I move to another hardware. It doesn't change if I put in a different game. It
doesn't change. And that's what needs to be drilled into Nintendo's head: People want a universal name for themselves, they don't want a code that is going to change if they move hardware or forget that the code is tied to said hardware.
anyway, the psychology behind Reggie love and the downward trend in expressing Reggie love in relation to his diminishing public appearances would be a far more fascinating topic. IT'S LIKE HE'S JUST IN IT FOR THE MONEY
I really do not get Nintendo fan's love for Reggie outside of "ReggieNotMyProblem.jpg," most of the time he talks is completely PR sales-age drivel that isn't really needed or he's completely clueless about some of the directions Nintendo is going. A complete puppet that really doesn't have the ability to go "no, this and this and this needs to happen in America" to Iwata, it seems to me. And that's another thing: I feel Nintendo needs a swift kick in the pants like... forgetting his name... Oscar can help me with it, Stolar?-- anyway, the Sega of America dude in the Genesis launch. He was brought in and basically was going to be a puppet to Sega of Japan, until he went "No, that's not what America wants. America is a completely different market from Japan and this and this needs to happen..." Long story short? He
was right and the Genesis exploded in popularity for a while.
That's what Reggie needs to do: He needs to give NCL feedback that is "you guys need to revamp the online system. You need to make a universal code or name or service like that to where it isn't a PITA to use the online service. You need to support the (then current) standards out there otherwise the American market isn't going to take us seriously."
Of course, given the success of the Wii (before it burned out, anyway) I doubt he'll do that or Iwata will listen. And that's a shame, because if Nintendo actually
attempted to improve their hardware-side stuff, I'd consider their next round of hardware (3DS/U). But as it is? I've been burned once (Wii) and half-burned (DS has visual novels and other things that came out of left field for me, but online is terrible... but I give that a pass because it wasn't built for online in the first place) to where I will not consider them again until things change.
