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Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by olyjohn »

jjulius wrote: post #63
archi42 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's pretty well executed on desktop. Maybe revisit it, if you're interested in the visuals or want to learn about how that Mario Kart title drains your wallet.

Am on desktop, and was genuinely interested in learning about the subject, but stopped reading 1/3 through because I didn't want to have to keep clicking and watching an animation after every sentence.

Oh well. Someone else will complain they didn't want to read a multi page article on the topic, and others will complain about having to watch a video that doesn't let them move at their own speed. Can't make everybody happy.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by tarotuser »

falcolas wrote: post #25
CM30 wrote: post #12

It's a shame the game is so predatory with its monentisation tactics, since the actual content (tracks, characters, items, etc) is actually rather good. It's just most of it is buried under this pay to win, limited time bullshit. Still, at least Nintendo does provide a way to get this stuff without being subject to Tour's lootboxes. The Booster Course Pass DLC for 8 Deluxe on Switch offers much of the same content, e…

> in a game that isn't trying to exploit you at every turn. With as profitable as these tactics are, I wonder for how much longer they’ll keep those tactics off their Switch games. Or, more cynically, “… game that isn’t trying to exploit you yet …”

Well, there is always Yuzu Switch emulator.

This subreddit can help onboard you to start playing Switch on your computer. https://www.reddit.com/r/NewYuzuPiracy/

It's hard to exploit you if you're unexploitable.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Naga wrote: post #5

Nintendo has such a great, family friendly brand. If I was in charge, I wouldn't want my brand to be anywhere close to being associated to this type of thing.

Grim to see even Nintendo who stand by their principles to such a degree elsewhere find themselves capitulating to garbage mobile profit models when on a phone.

iOS and Android app stores are where creativity, quality and talent goes to die. Whole thing could disappear tomorrow and nothing of value would be lost.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by etiam »

OatmealDome wrote: post #41

It should be noted that the pipes (loot boxes) have recently been replaced with a shop where you directly pay for things using rubies instead of gambling. [1] That being said, the prices in the shop are quite expensive from what I've heard from people who play the game. [1] https://twitter.com/mariokarttourEN/status/15655858873035325...

At first glance I read rubles... which I guess would be at least a little bit like gambling, lately.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by olyjohn »

jimktrains2 wrote: post #67
gambiting wrote: post #6

What sort of nonsense website is this. It tells you that it works best in landscape mode when on mobile, but switching to landscape renders half of the page off screen.

It also refuses to render for me in fennec. It sayd I'm not supported.

Cant use it in Lynx either. Fucking worthless website.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by bastard_op »

It's rather sad even Nintendo has devolved to this sort of mobile gaming trap too, you would think the old guard would have some respect for themselves to purposely NOT contribute to this modern epidemic.

I play no mobile games, they're all some cash trap like a vacuum cleaner, and simply not fun when you realize you'll never truly win anything unless you pay and pay hard. What do YOU really get for the money?

I guess knowing you're paying for Nintendo's old guard's retirements and health care.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by tarotuser »

honkycat wrote: post #15

This stuff needs to be illegal. It is programming kids into gambling. ...also as a nice side effect it would make the video games I like to play cheaper and better.

You oughtta see what Roblox is doing. Nothing else quite like encouraging loot crates, minors working on semi-business ventures, stock markets, AND foreign exchanges.

Kids have lost tens of thousands of dollars on their platform. And I'm guessing if they were sued, none of it is binding, because minors.

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/roblox-criticized-for-lack-of-...

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by Loughla »

zug_zug wrote: post #57
KhalPanda wrote: post #16

I (sadly) don't play any mobile games for this reason. _Every_ game seems to revolve around engineering you to buy to speed up progress. It's just one step worse (maybe two) than everything being a subscription. I prefer buying games(/software) once and being left to enjoy the game.

I can't help but think I'd buy 10x as many games on mobile if there was a way to filter out all in-app purchases (other than pay once: add-free forever no more asks to buy)

The best game I've seen for this is WazHack. It is free to download and play, but only to a certain depth. From there, if you want to go further, you pay for whatever type of character you want to use. If you only want to use one type of character, like barbarian, it costs 1$x. If you want to play all 8, it's 8$x.

Straight forward, you can play it to see if you like it, you can play the different characters to see if they match your play style. No other purchases needed.

Re: Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money

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Post by bentley »

yamtaddle wrote: post #62
mxkopy wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I think the main factor's that Nintendo's got this weird cheap-on-the-hardware-side-premium-on-the-software-side thing going on. So do you think this is the weird economics that's responsible for Nintendo shifting more to the 'standard' model of DLCs and possibly microtransactions? Because selling the hardware doesn't make as much sense nowadays?

Microtransactions are new and worrisome. DLC, they've so far treated more like traditional expansion packs (from what I've seen), rather than short-changing the core game so they can easily soak buyers for extra money for what should have been the full version to begin with, as has become standard practice in much of the rest of the industry. I didn't notice e.g. base Mario Kart coming with notably-few tracks or anyt…

Mario Kart 8 is an interesting case actually, because 16 of the 48 courses in the base Switch version (a full third) were originally paid DLC when Mario Kart 8 was on the Wii U.

That doesn’t mean Mario Kart 8 is a bad deal! I think even the new paid DLC is a great value to keep adding high‐quality material to an existing game. It’s pretty fascinating to see how Nintendo has managed to keep a 2014 game going, and still succeeds at convincing people to buy it for $60—it still sells like hotcakes.

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