So frigging this! I'm gonna buy a used copy once the hype settles down for the multiplayer. That said, considering how often i had to rape my wallet to get overpriced Wii U games, i'm starting to develop some sort of inwit and that's not good. Piracy hopefully is soon a thing.
I think I broke my internet with that page.
Well I am in for $60 plus another $26 for the two Amiibos (the squid is not available). Plus 8% sales tax.
I have rather loose morals and no ethics so I am "That Guy" that justifies it with a Gateway on the 3DS.
Hey, and I paid twice for mk8 DLC.
By time there is more content and loaders are made, then more people will want to pirate. Heck, I'm downloading DBZ:BT3 now.
So when Nintendo releases an unfinished game it's okay because it "reaches the masses", but when Bungie releases Destiny with two planned expansions it's an outrage. I see a bit of a double standard here, don't you? Ever since Splatoon was announced I assumed that they're going to release it as a cheap downloadable title, a little game for $20-$25 that's supposed to tide players over until the "next big release". Now that it's been released as the "next big release", I just keep scratching my head wondering how it's okay to release a competitive squad-based multiplayer shooter with 5 maps and no voice chat and sell it for full retail price. It's as if people apply completely different standards to Nintendo in comparison to every other developer.
I've been trying to figure this out myself. No matter how I look at it, Splatoon is an unfinished product being sold as if it were complete. "But it's getting free DLC later" people try to say, but that isn't DLC; it's the other half of the game you already bought. How is that okay? If a Call of Duty game or Battlefield released like that, there would be outrage and nobody would buy it. Nintendo does it and people praise the game for its innovation and daring to think outside the box. It's dumb. Really dumb. Then Nintendo has the gall to release it as a $60 title on top of releasing three separate amiibos if you dare to want more out of the single player experience that other shooters just give you as part of the basic package. By the time all is said and done, to get all of the content currently available, you'd have to spend over $100 on Splatoon (because let's face it, if you don't have them now, you're gonna pay scalper prices on the amiibos, those dumb things). For $100 on any other shooter, you get the entire base package and the bulk of the DLC, if not all of it, without a physical DRM content device or three bogging you down.
