Zedstrian
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- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
Unlike physical cartridges, a digital, emulated copy of FireRed has no resale or collector’s value. Also, as the primary cost in developing such titles is the emulator, Nintendo could release additional GBA games in this manner with minimal additional effort.
Considering those factors, and the Switch having a higher install base than prior systems (over ten times Wii U unit sales), maintaining the Wii U and 3DS price points is the most reasonable means for Nintendo to monetize their back catalogue in a way that makes piracy less enticing for many people: $3 per GB, $4 per GBC, $5 per NES, $7-8 per GBA, $8 per SNES, $10 per N64, and $20 per Wii game price point.
Given that each console only requires an emulator to be developed once (something Nintendo has already done for NSO) to support hundreds of paid titles, there’s no need to increase prices when the games will sell several times more than they had any chance to on the Wii U.
Given how many games NSO includes, they could continue offering them that way for people who prefer renting their library. Consumers want meaningful options; pricing a GBA game at $20 is not that.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
Blind consumer loyalty only incentivizes Nintendo to further raise prices and make their products less consumer friendly.
Piracy simply demonstrates a problem with supply; if Nintendo wants to solve it, the solution isn’t trying to cuts heads off of a hydra, but rather adjust prices to capture unrealized market potential.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
If a company shows no respect for its consumers by nickel and diming them for everything, then there is no reason to show a company respect by purchasing its products.
If they re-released their entire back catalogue at reasonable prices—not locking them behind a subscription—with a commitment to letting users transfer them to future consoles without an upgrade fee, then things would be different.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial - CBS News 1 week ago:
Alternative to CBS.
- Comment on Let's Play The Trolley Solution - Isekai'd by Trolley-kun 1 week ago:
Seems to have lots and lots and lots of filler in an attempt to justify its price tag; they should have halved the content and just made it really good for $5.
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 3 weeks ago:
We might have to wait until their announcement on the 13th to know more, but if the launching of new merch and discussions of overseas development is anything to go by, they might not be canceling it, but rather replacing the entire development team with a new one, all the while implementing microtransactions everywhere.
They’ll have lost most of the public’s goodwill in the process for doing so though.
- Comment on Campaigners challenge Scottish policy on transgender inmates in female prisons 3 weeks ago:
The extent of transphobia in the UK is disgusting.
- Comment on Steam Quietly Withdraws Under Fire MMO Ashes of Creation From Sale As Fans Wonder Who's Left to Maintain the Servers 3 weeks ago:
Unless the monetization announcements are false, it would seem that they sold their souls to private equity, who have now turned around to milk the game for profits.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
Most Switch games run well on the Steam Deck; I just wish someone would fix Starlink: Battle for Atlas emulation so that I can play as Fox, which I can’t on the Steam version.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 5 weeks ago:
It’s good to know when Reddit moderators see the light and help transition their communities over before Reddit interferes. !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is another example of that.
- Comment on ICE Recruitment Ads No Longer on Spotify 1 month ago:
Spotify showed that they don’t care about advertising ethics, so don’t reward them by subscribing.
- Comment on US and China reach ‘final deal’ on TikTok sale, treasury secretary says 4 months ago:
Given the geopolitical influence of the U.S. and the consequences of fascist-controlled social media platforms being used to sway elections in favor of fascist candidates, there’s ramifications to the acquisition beyond the borders of the U.S. alone.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery puts itself up for sale (also includes WB Games) 4 months ago:
The corporate media landscape is already too consolidated; any further mergers should be blocked, and existing oligopolies split up instead.
- Comment on DeepSeek releases DeepSeek OCR 4 months ago:
modern LLMs
Versus the LLMs used by the ancient Greeks?
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 4 months ago:
They can have a big tent without making it a Nazi bar. They deliberately choose not to, so deserve the consequences of that decision until they kick the fascists out of their tent.
- Comment on Republicans warn PM of 'punitive measures' over Palestinian recognition 5 months ago:
Countries are legally bound by the 1948 Genocide Convention to oppose genocides, something that recognizing the self-determination rights of the Palestinian people before they are wiped out entirely is consistent with, whether or not Republicans recognize it.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 10 months ago:
Nintendo opting to forgo selling retro games piecemeal and instead expecting consumers to rent access to them in perpetuity is an anti-consumer move. I have no problem paying for games when they’re sold at affordable, reasonable prices, so until that’s the case for Nintendo’s library, better to just emulate as much of it as possible.
- Comment on XPG Prime tuning app dumps 50GB of anime girl photos in Redditor's temp folder 11 months ago:
Somewhat of a clickbait title, but hopefully the bug gets fixed all the same. 👍
- Comment on Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data 11 months ago:
That’s not going to keep them from selling it. Their defense is the need to keep Firefox “financially viable”, but if that keeps them from being able to broadly state that they won’t sell our data, it’s better to use a fork that prevents Mozilla from accessing that data in the first place.
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- Comment on Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed 1 year ago:
Black Flag was the first one I played. As a result I then played 3, then tried 2, which seemed mechanically a bit outdated (might try it again; just wish it’s health UI were more like Black Flag’s), so played Unity instead. Still have to try Syndicate, which seems to still be mechanically similar enough to the original formula to be interesting.
Played Origins past the first boss fight, but stopped since it no longer felt like an Assassin’s Creed game. Odyssey and Valhalla appear to replicate the Origins formula, so skipped them altogether. Might try Mirage at some point, given its lack of the RPG mechanics of the prior three games, but probably won’t get Shadows due to it seemingly returning in part to the RPG formula.
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 1 year ago:
The ‘restored’ version is an official ROM hack of the NES version, so it can be played on the NES itself too via a flashcart.
- Comment on favourite gameboy family games? 1 year ago:
Pokémon Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire; unironically more addictive than the mainline Pokémon games.
- Comment on Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? 1 year ago:
The loss of built-in PWA support was the biggest disappointment I had when switching from Chrome to Firefox, with the add-on solutions I tried having one problem or another in replicating my goal of making opening a handful of websites I had set to be PWAs look as much like regular applications as possible. While I wouldn’t switch back to Chrome in a second, and am still trying to get the rest of my family to make the switch, there’s a number of things Firefox needs to implement to remove the remaining roadblocks for people looking to make the switch away from Chrome or another Chromium browser.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 1 year ago:
While I’m no fan of Epic Games for bribing companies to keep games off of Steam for a year or more, Valve’s market dominance in PC game sales isn’t a good thing for developers or consumers.
- Comment on Netflix has 80+ games in development and plans to release "about one new title per month" 1 year ago:
I’d hardly count something like a simple Solitaire clone app that could be otherwise played for free as a full game release… In terms of actual games, I’d much rather support mobile ports that can be bought for a one time price tag than are locked behind a subscription in perpetuity.
- Comment on Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio) 1 year ago:
All states except Maine and Nebraska tally votes cast statewide and allocate all electoral votes from that state to the winner. Specific concentrations of voters in those states aren’t factored into the allocation.
- Comment on [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliability 1 year ago:
Note that the sources on the list are there due to the frequent publication of misinformation, rather than their bias alone. As others have noted, the list can essentially be broken down into three categories: state-sponsored media outlets, clickbait-style tabloids, and extremist media outlets. The categories themselves are just a means of summarizing what’s on the list though, as outlets in those categories that maintain editorial standards that disallow misinformation wouldn’t qualify for inclusion on the list.
- [Suggestion] Disallow the use of sources deprecated by the Wikipedia editing community for unreliabilityen.m.wikipedia.org ↗Submitted 1 year ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Riven (2024) Review Thread 1 year ago:
Admittedly I did need a guide at times for Quern too; I think the best compromise is what Cyan did for Firmament and just include an optional hint system in the game itself. By avoiding the need to consult walkthroughs, not only would excessive spoilers be avoided, but the experience would remain self-contained, something especially important for a VR game.