Nintendo to pull their mobile titles from Belgium due to micro-transaction laws

wartutor · May 21, 2019

This needs to be done everywhere. Even games u pay for now have micro transactions out the ass (ahem mk11) it needs to be stoped

hippy dave · May 21, 2019

Just download teh hacked versions presumably.

71r3n · May 21, 2019

Anyone expected anything else from them?
Iwata is dead, and with him the Nintendo we all know and loved.
Just look at the twist Nintendo did, the moment the new prez was announced.
Mobile gaming, microtransactions etc pp.
Just thinkin about Mario Run makes me wana puke, and getting lobotomized so i
forget those shiny kid memories.

Bladexdsl · May 21, 2019

hippy dave said:
Just download teh hacked versions presumably.

doesn't work if the games require online to be active/connect to a server to play

hippy dave · May 21, 2019

Bladexdsl said:
doesn't work if the games require online to be active/connect to a server to play

Ah fair enough.

jesus96 · May 21, 2019

Well I just hope they where F2P players

Dust2dust · May 21, 2019

hippy dave said:
Just download teh hacked versions presumably.

Bladexdsl said:
doesn't work if the games require online to be active/connect to a server to play

I don't play any forced online game. If a game requires online connection to play or even launch, it disqualified automatically from my list. As someone else said, I have enough games in my backlog to last two lifetimes, so why should i bother with this kind of crap design?

Foxi4 · May 21, 2019

Chary said:
So in the efforts of "protecting" their citizens, they now get to get the lesser experience of not being able to play those games, even if they want to.

Who could've predicted that the government nannying citizens was a bad idea way back when, when everyone was cheering Belgium on? Gee, I can't remember... Good.

RedBlueGreen · May 21, 2019

kumikochan said:
Good, now hopefully more countries would follow making companies realize that this bullshit can't go on anymore. Bring back the 90's era of gaming

Most people don't want to pay outright for a mobile game. Games with micro transactions and things like timers are a lot more appealing to said people because it still keeps the game free if they don't want to pay for anything. The bill is footed by people who make in game purchases. For whatever reason people would rather pay something outrageous like $100 over time than $15 initially. Just look at the downloads for free to play (with IAP) and games with an outright price. Layton Curious Village HD has 5,000 downloads on Android because it costs money, and Layton Brothers (free with IAP) has 500,000 downloads.

whateverg1012 · May 21, 2019

Good job Belgium, these games were garbage anyways so they are not missing out, hope the rest of the world adopts these laws in some fashion.

RedBlueGreen · May 21, 2019

whateverg1012 said:
Good job Belgium, these games were garbage anyways so they are not missing out, hope the rest of the world adopts these laws in some fashion.

And then all mobile games will be paid and people will be whining that they have to pay for things on a phone which isn't a gaming device and very few mobile games are actually console quality. Or all of the free games will be plagued with never ending ads.

kumikochan · May 21, 2019

RedBlueGreen said:
Most people don't want to pay outright for a mobile game. Games with micro transactions and things like timers are a lot more appealing to said people because it still keeps the game free if they don't want to pay for anything. The bill is footed by people who make in game purchases. For whatever reason people would rather pay something outrageous like $100 over time than $15 initially. Just look at the downloads for free to play (with IAP) and games with an outright price. Layton Curious Village HD has 5,000 downloads on Android because it costs money, and Layton Brothers (free with IAP) has 500,000 downloads.

I'm one of the few that never ever paid for a single micro transaction in my life. Not even a single one and i never will. If everyone would have done that to begin with we wouldn't have this mess with micro transaction filled games. I'm atleast not part of the problem but everyone else is

Bladexdsl · May 21, 2019

RedBlueGreen said:
Or all of the free games will be plagued with never ending ads.

they are anyway (and yes buying coins popups counts as an ad

)

Bat420maN · May 21, 2019

kumikochan said:
I'm one of the few that never ever paid for a single micro transaction in my life. Not even a single one and i never will. If everyone would have done that to begin with we wouldn't have this mess with micro transaction filled games. I'm atleast not part of the problem but everyone else is

You're so special......

I am glad this is happening, maybe Nintendo will think before they try to stuff this leaf ticket crap into the next major AC title.

kumikochan · May 21, 2019

Bat420maN said:
You're so special......

I am glad this is happening, maybe Nintendo will think before they try to stuff this leaf ticket crap into the next major AC title.

Yes i am, thanks

Exaltys · May 21, 2019

The one problem I have with gacha games like Fire Emblem Heroes, not so much Animal Crossing because it is a different type of game, is all of the tanks of heroes and the power creep that comes with it. The company will usually give one of the SSS Super Omega tank for free too and it will just trash 50% of the game.

KingVamp · May 21, 2019

I would be surprised if they planned to add the leaf tickets to a main title, regardless of this.

Bat420maN · May 21, 2019

KingVamp said:
I would be surprised if they planned to add the leaf tickets to a main title, regardless of this.

With the amount of money they have made from leaf tickets, there is no way in hell they arent at the very least considering them for the game.

CTR640 · May 21, 2019

It's bullshit. Nintendo could have removed the microtransactions features instead of removing the wholes games.
Fucking greedy EA! They simply don't know when to stop.

Dust2dust said:
I don't play any forced online game. If a game requires online connection to play or even launch, it disqualified automatically from my list. As someone else said, I have enough games in my backlog to last two lifetimes, so why should i bother with this kind of crap design?

Exactly! Sometimes when you are outside or at some places where there is no connection or the connection is very weak, you wanna play the games but it requires you to be online and you can't play... That's simply anti-consumer and I have zero-tolerance for that design.

anhminh · May 21, 2019

You know Japan, Korea and China will never go through with this since the game company there made fortune from those kind of game and have very big influence with government. So yeah, good for Belgium at least.

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