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- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 days ago:
Everyone defending Nintendo in here for their online subscription fees are actually the mildly infuriating part for me personally. I’m a game developer and once attempted to develop an online game on Switch and other consoles. It was surprising to me to learn that exactly zero of the profits they rake in from their player base goes towards providing any server architecture whatsoever for can developers on the platforms to use. This means that all costs associated with hosting savers for online functionality of games on the platform are the responsibility of each developer. So I fail to see what service they are providing apart from enabling players to access the Internet on a device they already paid for. I really don’t think players understand this. I also think it’s important to point out that it’s at least twice as difficult to get a game through Nintendo Lotcheck aka certification if you have any online features whatsoever due to their extreme requirements, which ends up costing a lot more development time. Steam on the other hand has an almost non existent certification process and charges players nothing to access the Internet.
I will end my rant with one more important point. I had my switch stolen a while back. I had been playing Animal Crossing for years, all through the pandemic and had a very nicely curated island and house. I had been paying for Nintendo Online monthly and had my island backed up. However I didn’t purchase a new switch right away due to financial reasons and speed thought it foolish to keep paying my Nintendo Online membership so I canceled. After about 2 years I saw they announced a new update and finally had some extra money so I found a used Switch online. To my dismay, even though I reactivated my Nintendo Online subscription, Nintendo deleted my entire cloud save data repository for all my games, including Animal Crossing due to having not paid in over 12 months. This is unacceptable. Steam has not charged me a penny for online cloud service in all my years of having an account which started back on in the days of CS1.6. They have every save data file for every game I’ve ever played with zero threat of deletion. I cannot believe Nintendo thinks they were justified in deleting my data. I had to start Animal Crossing over from scratch. Needless to say I will not be subscribing to Nintendo Online ever again. Do not trust them with your data.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Metal Gear Solid 5.
How can you just ditch your main character’s voice actor? As a Metal Gear completionist, how do I even play this traditionally linear game now that it’s open world and packed with repetitive side missions? Why am I building a strut base and hiring staff that I magically airlift to a chopper out on the battlefield? Overall a disappointment, not because of bad graphics or bad controls or bad gameplay, just a hodgepodge of content that was too much of a departure from the format of the first 4 linear games. I never finished it and probably never will. I know Konami threw multiple wrenches in Kojima’s gears during development but I feel the overall direction was still flawed from the onset. Open World was just so popular at that time and maybe they forced it on Kojima, who knows. I know he didn’t want to make a 5th game anyway so I’m gonna just pretend it never happened and be happy with the first 4 and the PSP titles.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
From the perspective of a game developer, I dislike the big 3 because they take money from consumers of their products to play games with online multiplayer features while not providing any support to the developers of those online games with regard to server costs, let alone the crazy amount of work it is to add online multiplayer support to a game. I don’t think a lot of consumers realize this because there are so many people flaming developers for not adding online multiplayer support to their games without realizing A: How much work that is or B: How expensive server costs are. If consumers became aware of the fact that NONE of their subscriptions for online access actually went to supporting server infrastructure for online games, they would probably all move to PC/Steam.
- Comment on Nutritous and delicious 8 months ago:
The Wonderful company is truly terrible and deserves WAY more digital graffiti. Their billionaire owners are quite literally siphoning all the public water out of Los Angeles to grow their overpriced pistachios and pomegranates. Their money is as dirty as can be as well.
- Comment on I guess they hate shoppers (context below) 1 year ago:
I personally think your response to the issue being raised is exactly why America is a total dump that will never be able to have nice things. You’re literally shutting down someone’s criticism of the functionality of the public spaces in their everyday life because you don’t think it’s a big deal. But it’s laziness of things like this that actually make America a shitty place to live. It’s an epidemic of poor decisions with regard to how much placement of things inconvenience others. This was clearly a purely planned implemention of selling a ton of plants out front of the store. Someone raised the issue. But you. You decided to shut them down for it because they should get over it. There are bigger issues. Yeah fair enough I guess but also you’re enabling shitty design and things will only get worse when there’s folks like you that accept garbage and tell anyone who complains they’re crazy for saying anything about how it’s garbage. /rant
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