Cute? Heh... Not as cute as you, bud.
I mean- Look at you. Dwelling within your fairytale land- thinking there should fair and good in business of all things. That a white knight be sent from the magical kingdom to stop this act of unfairness.
Who will save us from this darkness?!
Get over it. Nintendo is a business with the desire for the currancy in your possession- no matter how you or I feel about it, thats what they are. If you disagree with their methods, then feel free to complain about it, but it won't change the fact that they are a business, and that's how a business operates.
Welcome to the real world.
Everything he said is on point however, and it's coming from the the PoV of a consumer. There's nothing worse than a loyal fanboy who defends a corporation like a valiant knight and acts like scummy and greedy business actions are in the right, even if they're legal or justifiable from a business standpoint, and happily eats **** just because it's got a brand name and a ribbon on it.
YOU are the consumer, and allowing companies to screw you like this only ****s you over even more, as all they care about is how much money they can get from you first and foremost. Nintendo, or any other large company run by big suits does NOT give a rat's ass about you. On the contrary, if you LIKE a product or service provided to you by a company, you have a RESPONSIBILITY to be critical, to ensure that the quality of their service or products stays good and the company competitive. The moment a company or business no longer feels like they have to extend any or much effort to retain a demographic, the sooner they'll stop worrying about catering to said audience.
I don't care how much money a company can make by doing something, or how much it would cost them not to, if they're gonna screw me by doing it, then they sure as hell aren't getting a penny from me. And that's how it's done. Even if it means the demise of the company. Poor leadership and bad decisions are what led to that, not my lack of support. I'm a consumer, and I hold no loyalty to a multinational corporation trying to sell me a product, and I have no reason to gallantly defend their poor or greedy business decisions.
That's the free market. Competition is good.
Welcome to the real world.
*shrugs* Sorry. But I don't take kindly to words being put in my mouth, in conjoining with sarcasm. But that being said, I meant every word.
Nintendo is a business. What did you expect? I'm not a shareholder, but I'm also not an imaginator. This is what they do. This is what Sony does. This is what businesses do. Plain and simple. Constantly whining about it won't change anything.
Sony and Capcom and EA and many other companies have gotten a lot of **** for being excessively greedy and penny pinching whenever they could. Sony was on top of then world after the PS2, and only after many of their products and branches started to tank and flop did they start catering to the consumer again.
Remember the Vita? Remember that it flopped because of Sony's insistence on proprietary SD cards to earn more of a buck.
Nintendo is not free from criticism, and other companies being greedy doesn't suddenly justify Nintendo going down that path as well.
Gonna ignore everything else buuuut
Criticizing companies is EXACTLY how you get them to stop ****ing over the consumer or having practices that just don't work.
Vote with your wallet. That's how you get a company to listen, Complaining about something all the while giving them your money is no way to get them to change. Bottom line, companies care about money and profit, and they'll only listen to the figures. That should have been more than apparent to just about everyone considering that's what people have been doing in regard to Nintendo for over two generations now, and it certainly hasn't gotten them to change at all.
I know most people in here won't do it, but that's why I'm personally not spending another penny on Nintendo stuff till they stop with their anti-consumer practices, and start actually catering to gamers rather than putting outside markets in front of us.