I don't know why this always becomes a "moral" argument. I don't know how Nintendo treats its employees. Does anyone? Their corporate reporting in the West is basically zero.
Well for example they recognize and allow same-sex relationships in japan, a part of the world that does not. That and
they have kept upwards of 98% of thier japanese permanant workforce and as low as 5.1% for the american branch, something that can't be said for many other (mostly western) companies. You have the world wide web, which also includes Nintendo's own public reports that they have to release being a publicly traded company, you
can learn this very easily.
As for "why it boils down to morals"?... that's because it's the highground you see most people rag on Nintendo is, they only pick Nintendo when they do something because its an easy target when there are so many worse examples, many of which predated what Nintendo was doing or are also doing concurrently.
This is not a moral thing. It's about consumer value and consistent standards.
No it's not. It's not even close when Nintendo's objective quality (i.e the bugginess of the games, the production values for the big budget games, the quality of the hardware they make and sell) have been largely the same for the layman consumer (The people who don't browse fourms, review sites, and social media 24/7 and obbess over the next villan of the week) and they see the price of the games and buy it because they wanted to buy the game and not because some shmuck on Twitter wanted them to or said that they will ressurect every dictator in history all at once if they dare buy a Switch 2 or it's exclusives.
Not doing microtransactions in full releases is true, but it's also a low bar. Yes, it's more upsetting to see loot boxes that use real money in Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Fire Emblem than in adult-minded casino games and realistic shooters. I don't think that's a "moral" point, unless you're a parent. But it's an artistic consistency point.
If I see Mario's face on something, I don't want to have to ask if it's a gambling app or a game, because I like the brand and I don't like seeing it abused.
"Moral Points" was what got the Internet actually angry over EA putting lootboxes in thier own Star Wars Battlefront 2, so much so that EA actually backtracked and some countries like Bulgam actually banned lootboxes in part because of it, and no, Gambling mechanics in a realistic shooter are just as inexcusable, especially since BF2-2017 was rated T for Teen, the literal step below a M for Mature on the ESRB.
No corporation should be patenting game mechanics. It's like patenting a camera shot or a brush stroke.
And they are legally allowed to. The same goes for so many things you'd think shouldn't even be patentable, such as
water filters,
software, and even common
things related to the internet. If you're so upset over a game company patenting a game mechanic, then surely you should have rage bubbling reading some of these patents for things that seem so common and obvious.
Maybe Nintendo's actions are more scrutinized, but the argument should be that other companies should be scrutinized MORE, not that Nintendo doesn't deserve scrutiny. I've never understood this argument.
Let's reread what you first said then.
When Nintendo does something so blatantly anti-consumer, I want the response to be like if Microsoft or WB did it. I want to see rants, not justifications.
Even the most good faith interpetation you could get from this is "I want Nintendo to be scrutinized more for things I consiter anti-consumer while neglecting the fact that they are constantly scrutinized over anything they do positive or negative, already addressing my own arguement."
I wasn't even saying that Nintendo should be exempt from critisism, I was saying that Nintendo is the number 1 target even when other companies have done or is doing the exact same thing if not something worse, or in some cases, something that Nintendo already did in the past to even less fanfare before they became the internet's punching bag that some only suddenly care now for if only because they want to use it as another reason to dunk on the company they already hated.
To use the Gen 3 rereleases again, Nintendo had them for preorder on the Switch 1/2 for $20 per language given the nature of how GBA games handled localization, which can be mitigated by ethier buying the language you natively spoke, or using your existing cart or ROM dump. In within the same week as said announcement, Sony shut down Bluepoint Games, an entire studio which not only costed the jobs of many, but deprived the consumer of any output they could have had at the time or in the future.
Which one of these is worse? (Here's a hint, it's the one that potentially ruined people's livelyhoods)
It's bad 100% of the time. It should affect who we give our money to 100% of the time. It should make us angry 100% of the time.
People who arn't terminally online don't keep a book of grudges over what every corpo, other person, or other living things does something they percive is negative to them. Not everyone knows what a patent is or the in-depth differences between physical and digital software products, and they don't fucking care.
Any controversey or news about patents that is from Nintendo or any other internet hated company like them online gets consistant backlash, claims they'll never buy from them again (before they end up doing so anyway), and constant reminders any chance when it happens again, while instances that arn't from those two catagories gets rage for one or two days, before kicking thier feet and going "Well it do be like that" while it gets memory holed outside of the few who are like the above or are able to keep a sub 5 minute memory.
It's like ever since YouTube started hating on Nintendo, the counterreaction has been to give them a pass on the things we all know are bad. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
The layman were willing to hear the anti-nintendo side out back in the late Wii and whole Wii U period because it was more grounded, and Nintendo was doing things no companies actually tried to do like making thier own Youtube Partner Program and striking down anyone who wasn't part of it and such critisisms were new. Ever since the days of the Switch, that side has consistantly and exponentially became more hyperbolic and outright angry over Nintendo finding success with the Switch and it's even worse with the Switch 2 where they kept succeding dispite people outright praying on it being a failure to the point they were staking thier entire personality on not liking Nintendo, and what happens when the normies just see one side becomming increacingly more unhinged compared to what came before?, they stopped listening and kept playing Nintendo.
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