nintendo are a strange bunch

Club Nintendo and online IDs are cumbersome and really weird as the Wii U doesn't integrate as a console online very well.
Yet, Mario Kart 8 is a great and simple online multiplayer, everything just works and i've had no issues.

Two different companies worked on the hardware and the software. Too much of a disconnect. No wonder people hate deving for Nintendo. It's not got the ease of Sony and MS.

 

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Remind me never to buy digital copies of things.

Not that I would, but if I ever consider it, slap me.

 

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Reminded me. I did buy the Humble Bundle (two of them).

At least the money went to something good.

 

Nintendo are some old fuddy duddies.
If their account system was better i'd buy soem of these games, but knowing. I could lose them if something happened is worrisome.

 

I'm set on only pirating that when it becomes possible.

Not putting up with this DRM.

 

Counter productive much?

 

Yes, the DRM is quite counterproductive.

I have no intention of supporting those habits by buying into them. I would be perfectly happy to buy the game if I could have a physical copy, but if they insist on selling me a license that can be rescinded or forfeited with the death of a system then I have no interest in contributing to their bad habits.

 

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Instead of supporting those habits by buying them, your supporting them by pirating the goods, thereby giving reason and justification for DRM instead of reasons against it. Counter productive.

 

I'll go over this slowly.

When DRM works:

1. People pirate stuff.
2. They add DRM.
3. Sales increase.

When DRM does not work/is counter productive:

1. People pirate stuff.
2. They add DRM.
3. Sales decrease.

I bought all but the first Ace Attorney game and Dual Destinies because they are great games. I will not buy Dual Destinies because the DRM is a bad decision that hurts me, a paying customer.

Their sales have decreased.

There is no justification for DRM that lowers sales.

 

there is if it increases piracy

 

Wait, what? How is more piracy a good thing?

 

if piracy increases, the increases the justification companies can use to include DRM.

 

No? The reason the company wants DRM/is against piracy in the first place is because they believe that it is stealing their profits. All they care about is the profit in the end. There is no profit in creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of your own failure.

 

Source for sale figures?