02-27-2014, 01:33 AM | #1 | |
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Nintendo Wifi Connection ending May 20th Worldwide
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http://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/det...Y7bvzOrgBURhzw (US) http://www.nintendo.com.au/index.php...=3383&pageID=6 (AU) This also means games with "DLC" will be lost to the abyss. Such as DQIX's store & dlc quests and Pokémon Ranger's download quests. Better get 'em while they're hot? |
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02-27-2014, 02:17 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, I've been waiting for this. Capcom had already dumped their online service for Wii's Monster Hunter Tri last April, pretty much telling us this was going to happen with all Wii games eventually.
I guess people may want to play older games online now for nostalgia's sake before the service ends. Or just let it die... |
02-27-2014, 03:02 AM | #3 |
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This may actually affect me, I just realized. I still need to pick up a copy of Professor Layton 4 (DS) and 5 (3DS). I want all of the DLC content for both games. Layton 5's unaffected by this news, but Layton 4 on the other hand ... uh oh. :\
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02-27-2014, 06:37 AM | #4 |
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Nooooo Battle Revolution Whyyyyyy
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02-27-2014, 09:06 AM | #6 |
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Dammit Nintendo at least wait until you release the new SSB and put out a Mario Kart for the Wii U.
Edit: Also, why is this not important enough to be in the News forum? |
02-27-2014, 05:06 PM | #7 | |
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02-27-2014, 05:12 PM | #8 |
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Good to hear. Thanks for the heads up. I don't have an Action Replay ^^; , but it's nice to know that the game content is already on the cartridge and thus can theoretically be unlocked by spoofing a Nintendo WFC connection and communicating the proper code(s) over to the DS.
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02-27-2014, 11:11 PM | #9 |
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Wow. Stop being such cheap wads Nintendo. This is the ultimate cheap wad move ever. This basically ruins a lot of DSi and Wii games that were still worth playing.
Also, I think you may have forgotten about Conquest on your list of games affected in the other thread. :]
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02-28-2014, 12:14 AM | #10 |
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Nintendo is shutting down services that were offered free of charge to us fans. Even if we want to argue that these costs were factored into the retail prices of the games, Nintendo's games handheld games continue to thankfully cost only ~$40, 33% less than most video games for home consoles and only a $5 to $10 markup from what they used to cost for Game Boy back in the '90s if I recall correctly. Considering that a $5 (or roughly 12.5%) difference hardly accounts for inflation over a period of twenty-four years, I would say that we've been enjoying a pretty decent deal here. (The U.S. government's inflation calculator indicates that $30 in 1990 would have the same purchasing power as $53.69 today. So be thankful that DS games don't retail for $55!)
That stated, I miss the days when everything that was on a game was accessible to the player without being an electrical engineer or computer hacker. I don't understand why a Professor Layton game has one hundred built-in bonus mysteries for you to enjoy after you beat the game but which are all locked behind a DLC wall. Especially not when that DLC wall required zero dollars and zero cents to legally bypass. It was not a paywall: it was simply a "Hey! Do you have an internet connection and five spare minutes? " wall. I don't see the point in that. If you want the bonus content to be hidden from the player until after they complete certain objectives, fine: but then just code the game to hide that content until the player reaches certain flags; and when those flags are reached, reveal the hidden content. It's not that hard. It's what most fighting games do for the non-DLC bonus costumes. So why not do it for the free-of-charge DLC costumes too? I could list off dozens of similar examples. Long story short, most if not all of the problems that I have with this news stem from my problems with the DLC model of giving players bonus content (whether it's on-game DLC or not and whether it's free DLC or not). I have no problem with Nintendo deciding to terminate a WiFi service that they were offering free of charge if they've decided that it's literally not worth it to keep that WiFi service running.
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Some reading around, I seen a buncha places coming to similar conclusion as ta why this is happening.
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Huh, I'd actually be more satisfied with that reason... I originally thought this was all a stunt from Nintendo because people weren't switching to 3DS.
Gamespy is (was?) the service used to play Civ IV online with randoms! Of course, we never had to deal with it for our UPN games. I certainly won't miss it.
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Hm, that sucks, but it's good to know that it wasn't a result of Nintendo trying to cover up for their failures but rather them getting cheated.
Which I guess isn't much better but at least it's not a result of Nintendo's failure. |
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Oddly enough, I had a feeling this was gonna happen, which sucks as I wanted to use PBR online sometime in the future.
Oh well, they better have a game like it on the Wii U.
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04-04-2014, 12:14 AM | #19 |
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While I do know PC at least one game (Borderlands) which used Gamespy to connect online, their console versions didn't use it. They would connect simply through XBL and had consoles as their host. This would usually lead to problems should the host disconnect, but wasn't an issue on PC since they connected to remote servers to make drop-in and out more seamless.
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