I should've said this earlier, but my point is less "it's easier to compose new songs because of licensing issues" and more "there are barely any Nicktoons games that use the actual show's music" whenever I discuss the state of music in this game. But having to license songs from whatever stock libraries they got them from can be part of the reason why these games do that, hell it's even an issue when SpongeBob gets released on home media.
I'm also going to point out the irony of these music packs using music from games like Nicktoons Racing-if it's okay that Racing composed its own songs, shouldn't it be okay that NASB did too?
I actually love the original songs in NASB and most Nicktoons games! But I'm not like 90% of people that bought the game
what I'm basically getting at is Nick video games were never aiming for the moon, but NASB is arguably the first time has an audience that
would put it there if it got a laundry lists worth of additions. Truthfully the biggest turn off for people from NASB is how it looks. Fast looking attacks = jank for most unfortunately, people said the same thing about Slap City, it's just a Ludosity trademark for their fighters, but DLC characters for NASB clearly look better than base game
idk what they could add or change at this point to retain a playerbase. Most of us will tout we like/love the game and I do believe that, but at the end of the day Steam Stats doesn't lie. There's more people here that say they like the game and talk regularly than there are people that actually play it regularly
NASB is probably just cursed to have a miniscule active player base. Nothing wrong with that, the potential for more is just there and I feel like their odds of gaining that player base back are better if they start fresh with a NASB 2 (or an Ultimate Edition like they seem to be doing) and hoping that it's not just an MvC Infinite situation where they bail before the game gets another chance
You know there's this other game with a vast array of characters with intricate gameplay that was dogged on for over a year before it finally gained traction.