Haruka wrote:GIF
Holy cow for the video, everybody is complaining... I should check my Wii U later and leaving a message to ask people to calm down and to share my opinion. Sure, there is a lot of ragequitting people that say they'll boycott, not buying the game, bla bla bla but in the next days they'll forget what happened and they'll buy the game anyway. Short memory. They also don't seem to think in the reasons that leaded to the delay.
In all seriousness, the people with extreme views will always be most vocal. Here we have a situation that, for some reason (
), did leave some people cosmically annoyed and absolutely no one in megaglee. Well, at least on Miiverse, which is a Nintendo user forum. That said, I have browsed what people think about it on NeoGAF... there were a few people saying they'll buy the game on PS360 (sometimes trying to comfort Wii U owners, sometimes just trolling them), but nobody was going madly positive about this.
Haruka wrote:I hope this will weight the conscience of people that were doing hating comments with no fundament. People forget there are artists, programmers, etc working a lot and doing their best to make the game fair for everybody. Like if they were happy with the delay too.
I had much worse, I've had to wait 8 years for a new Rayman game, so 7 months is like a needle inside a pile of straw.
If it weren't for developers, I would not
consider a personal boycott. I would
enforce it.
Haruka wrote:Slogbait wrote:anti-used games protection rumours
If they apply those things, they are preparing for epic losses of money and probably bankruptcy. They'll only go forward with that if they're stupid enough. Imagine how unfair it is for people that can't find the game anymore in retail shops and yet not being able to buy from other people because used games don't work ever more? Imagine that the years passed and Retro Gaming collectors want to play it but they simply can't? Its really concerning since the prices of just released games aren't quite inviting nowadays.
Neither Steam or Origin seem to be in very wrong state right now (although it seems like Valve has legal problems in Germany - and this has potential to save the day). The idea is horrible for us, but it won't make the giants bankrupt. In fact it wouldn't even make their console divisions bankrupt, In "best" scenario, they could promise a software update after 10 years that removes the restriction, or offer some kind of "Rebuyer Pass".
Haruka wrote:I personally find September a complicated month for me both for personal reasons and because I'm also interested in the New 'N' Tasty (Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee HD) that is going to be released around Autumn so its almost at the same time. I'll have to save for two games I guess.
The main problem with September though aren't people like me and you which are interested in games all the time. The problem are non-enthusiasts. The worst scenario for Wii U version I can imagine is Nintendo releasing a Wii U Mario Kart somewhere around September and 3D Wii U Mario in early December. If clueless parent/child will see Mario and Rayman, they will probably choose Mario.
In case of PS3, there are rumours of new LBP, and then Sega didn't release a mainline Sonic game for two years, so they could end up releasing something for all RL platforms. Not aware of anything competing on 360. Worst of all, titles from other niches (i.e. GTA5) are not directly competing with RL, but if RL released in, dunno, something like April, it could have a chance of becoming the most promoted title in some shops, I guess. In September it will stand no chance.\
None of these applies to Poland, by the way. In Poland, given Mario and Rayman, a parent would choose CoD for his son, to not have him laughed at at school or something.
Haruka wrote:And I really don't think that boycotting is a good idea, not to mention its totally unfair for the workers that have no fault for the delay. Afterall its by buying Ubisoft's products that the developers, artists, programmers, etc earn salary and continue to work in Rayman Legends and making even more games (even if its Rayman or not, have you thought in BG&E2, hm?).
Again, I think of the developers. However, the sad truth is we're in some kind of catch-22 here; buying the game for the developers could result in business team saying their strategy was alright after all. Not buying it because of theit strategy could result in them saying the developers screwed, probably due to experimenting with Wii U exclusive content.
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