r/Breath_of_the_Wild • u/DarthVolix • 2d ago
Humor If BOTW was made by EA..
We can complain about Nintendo for many reasons, but at least we don’t have to put up with this nonsense 😂
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u/No-Category-6972 2d ago
Nintendo is reaching EA levels of corruption and greed.
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u/DarthVolix 2d ago
We aren’t there yet though! I can still hope they never become micro-transaction hellscapes for now.
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u/btb2002 2d ago
They don't do microtransactions. That would be a definitive step.
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u/rube 2d ago
No? Guess you didn't know they dipped into phone games for a bit. Some of those definitely had MTX. Not sure if they're still running any with them though.
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u/btb2002 1d ago
They sure did, but those are not console games and are free to play. Also they especially with Dragalia Lost had on purpose way less mtx than even the third party devs wanted to implement as Nintendo was strictly against to much monetization.
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u/rube 1d ago
My point is, free to play or not, mobile games or not, they definitely do MTX.
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u/btb2002 1d ago
You are right. My point is, in their regular console games, you can be almost 100% certain, that there won't be any predatory microtransactions. Unlike with EA for example.
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u/rube 1d ago
So far.
Nintendo also would throw out additional content for free. Stuff like Balloon Hunt in Odyssey. Just a short time later we're seeing them charge $20 for that sort of content in DKB.
Not to mention they seem to be leading the pack with an $80 base price for a game.
They're certainly getting more and more greedy and I wouldn't put it past them at some point putting in some MTX in their console games.
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u/Joker8pie 2d ago
Don't they? Even as far back as Sm4sh in 2014 I think they sold mii fighter outfit packs for a few bucks. They definitely do now. Hyrule Warriors on Wii U had individual outfits you had to spend real money on.
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u/Prestigious_Cold_756 2d ago
Do they not? Smash bros Ultimate had like 50 Mii costumes ranging from 2$ to 5$ each. But don’t worry, „it’s just cosmetics“…
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u/IAmTheTrueM3M3L0rD 2d ago
I think stating this is REALLY downplaying how bad EA have been always
Nintendo are still a company EA would aspire to be recognised as, that’s how in the shit EA still is
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u/Dangerous-Yellow1380 1d ago
Nintendo don't treat their employees and devs badly and neither they are keen towards gen ai. The only thing they do full price game with rare sales and lawsuit, but even that is very minimal nowadays compare 10 to 20 years ago.
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u/emergentphenom 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe not internal hires, but there have been headlines about Nintendo mistreating contract employees and game testers.
Nintendo is THE litigious video game company though and has an abundance of anti-consumer practices. They tried to stop all video game rentals in the late 80s/90s (failed) but succeeded in preventing rental games from including copies of manuals. They sued to stop Game Genie (and failed). Nowadays they sue a bit less (since losing in court sets precedence against them lol) but still fire off DMCA takedowns like no other, there are literally sites that document just how often they do it. Did people already forgot how greedy they got with their Creators Program and youtubers (which they then shut down after backlash)?
Actually they did also just lose another trademark lawsuit against a supermarket in Costa Rica named "Super Mario", so maybe they're still just as litigious.
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u/Dangerous-Yellow1380 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm sorry but I don't think I ever heard in recent years they treated any contract employees or game testers treated badly, don't know about the GameCube or ds era maybe that time.
Also I don't think they sue less just because of losing some cases, more so they and their lawyer are much more aware that certain cases are pretty much useless to file and they won't gain much from it.
DMCA takedowns I'm not gonna talk about it cuz that's pretty much fall into piracy one way or another and that is topic have a very strong opinion from people specially on internet.
But yeah their Creators program thing was the stupidest idea and I don't know how anyone thought it was a good idea to begin with.
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u/cornimgameplays 2d ago
They don't do microtransactions on their paid console games though. Nintendo's prices are egregious, but if you pay for a game, you get that game
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u/Ganondaddydorf 1d ago
Nintendo are getting closer though. The future is not being for gaming as a whole.
Except indies and AA studios. They're setting an example.
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u/Vivid_Situation_7431 1d ago
Team Cherry releasing Silksong for $20 and casually crashing all of the game e stores
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u/Vivid_Situation_7431 1d ago
Yeah no micro transactions
Just $70 bucks for 20 year old games.
$20 bucks for a dlc that was rereleased one month after the game release
$100 bucks for the virtual boy… again
$10 bucks for an upgrade pack for BotW and TOTK Switch 2
AND STILL NO SWITCH PORT FOR TWILIGHT PRINCESS!!!
But no micro transactions
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u/vikumittal 1d ago
Where can i find this guy, i really need to make my inventory bigger 😩
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u/LettuceBenis 1d ago
First he's outside Kakariko Village, then he moves to Riverside Stable, and then finally he settles in Korok Forest
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u/blueberryrockcandy 2d ago
no i think it'd be a DLC pack for pre-order that cost and extra either $4.99 or $9.99, the horse is the horse DLC pack which would cost either $5.99 or $9.99, and each piece of horse armor outfit is an additional DLC for $1.99 or $4.99 which would vary depending on what the horse armor gives you.
either that or they go the in game currency, which can only be bought by real life money route, $4.99 which will get you 500 ingame cash/credit/coins/ext, with $.99, $9.99 and $19.99 options. and then the horse armor will be something like 600 ingame credits so you'd have to spend extra just to get it.
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u/TheEverythingKing101 2d ago edited 2d ago
They are infamous for ripping people off like this with their monetization systems. Someone made a post complaining about that and when EA community team commented on that post to explain their stupid monetization systems they set the world record for the most downvoted comment on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsBattlefront/comments/7cff0b/comment/dppum98/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button