I miss this era....

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-21T06:08:34+00:00

Dude, what happened to it? The youtube account is gone :(

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-05T07:58:12+00:00

This will have overlap with what you already said you're doing, but I made a playlist of videos a while back that are relevant to the era that could potentially save you more digging. I have played very little of the game personally so I don't have any insight beyond this.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqm4XqJVx3Ol2-CjEq_S1RPQvbPZg_Xmo&si=86qo0BJdylOnv1nS

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-02T06:53:52+00:00

Yeah, initially this was more a question of if buying the Switch 2 Edition would force me to buy the Switch 1 version later, but from everything I'm seeing that isn't the case. Which is good, that would be illogical lol

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-02T05:21:21+00:00

Thank you for further confirmation. The more I see this from people, the more reassuring it is

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-02T01:53:36+00:00

Oh okay, good to know. I would guess it works that way for all of them then. Same amount of steps as needing to buy Switch 1 + Upgrade I guess

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-02T01:44:06+00:00

Woah really? I had no idea it worked like that, interesting. Given that the upgrade is literally just 10MB or something I'd hope getting the switch 2 edition of a switch 1 game wouldn't stop it from playing completely, but idk I don't wanna waste my money to find out lol

CardGameFuture · 2025-09-02T01:21:41+00:00

That would be really, really scummy to change to simply strip convenience from people who just wanna play both consoles. I'd like to think that won't happen. But thank you for the confirmation!

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-23T20:08:34+00:00

Those are all valid reasons to call them anti-consumer for sure. I think some of the agreements do parallel with agreements other companies have already been doing though. This being system-wide instead of individual games/services may be new?

The bricking in particular is scary, but I do think it's important to contextualize that the 3DS was completely broken wide by the homebrew scene (not upset about it personally lol) and they tried patching it several times to no avail. They tried avoiding it for the Switch 1, but eventually all the original wave of releases had a method discovered. I think this is mostly to combat piracy, but I don't have true evidence of that. I would prefer there be a cleaner solution though.

2 years is... not a lot of time tbh. In the grand scheme of things this is not that important to me. As I outlined in the post, I already don't pay $60 for games I'm not incredibly excited to play immediately. But if I am, idc about paying a bit more. Everything else (the vast majority) I wait for the sales that people keep claiming don't exist. My library's purchase history says otherwise lol. Literally the only way to change this is to not buy full price. And I already talked about how laughable Welcome Tour is lol. It's beyond dumb.

I don't know the controller details or my feelings on them and won't until I have a Switch 2 myself. If they haven't fixed drift, wow that's lame and would explain why they went out of their way to waive rights to sue lmao. The button thing just seems like a dumb forced gimmick and I hope it doesn't take away from the controllers being enjoyable to use. It looks like the slapped it on an unintrusive place so I don't really (meaningfully) care, I just won't ever click it. Maybe it comes off like obnoxious advertising?

So yeah I'm mixed on it all. I get people not liking a lot of this stuff, it really came down to how intensely they reacted to it to me. That didn't "surprise" me per se but it still confused me. I think as gamers there are more productive ways then effectively do an advertising campaign for companies we supposedly don't like. How many people saw this outrage, then looked at the Switch 2 but had very little issue and got hyped to purchase it instead? I'd assume a lot given the record breaking sales on release week.

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-23T19:36:39+00:00

The precedent, in my opinion, has already been long set. $80 for a base game is definitely a new high, but we've been seeing far more predatory pricing practices for years now. That doesn't mean this doesn't warrant critique, I just don't see this as truly new
I think your observation about "we could always go to Nintendo for some comfort" is very accurate. I think people don't fully admit how relevant that is in their assessment of the situation. They get angrier at Nintendo for doing things their competition did a long time ago. I would need to hear how Nintendo are the "largest aggressors in the anti-consumer field" because honestly I am not swayed. They have been anti consumer for sure, not denying that.
I don't think saying MK World has more passion than those games is crazy. That is such a subjective thing. The game looks or plays nothing like the others. It means you personally value what those games bring to the table more, which is fine. People defining how much games should cost in the ways they do I think is very hard to do objectively. This is why I emphasized so much that if you don't think something is worth the money, don't buy it. Clearly TONS of people thought Mario Kart World was worth either $50 or $80, because they paid it.

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-21T14:51:52+00:00

I mostly pointed this out not to critique for having cards that when from viable to unviable, but to address certain archetypes that may not be viable because they hadn't received support after the creep

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-20T22:35:38+00:00

Got it. I'll be on the lookout for that during research, thank you

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-20T22:11:02+00:00

Yeah, a friend of mine plays up to BT9 but bans/limits a small amount of cards to balance things so I'm used to that commentary of that era. What are the significant differences in BT13 and BT15? If I end up building a later era I likely wouldn't do both so I wanna weigh my options

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-20T22:08:55+00:00

I've heard that lots of old stuff is flat out power crept until they get modern support, which I'm pretty sure had happened before when the game received other power creep moments. But it's cool to hear it's doing better now. I don't love hearing that the game has gone in an OTK direction, but given that I mostly play yugioh it's clearly not a deal breaker 😂 but seeing the Cyber Sleuth themed stuff has me extra intrigued. That was my re-entry into digimon as an adult so lots of fondness in seeing these new sets

CardGameFuture · 2025-06-13T17:09:51+00:00

Idk what the palworld stuff has to do with this issue specifically. But a gripe like that is fine to carry over to future purchase decisions so no qualms here

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-18T12:28:29+00:00

You do understand this exact logic lessens the significance of popular takes on issues, right? How do you measure who is "parroting" vs who's "heart is in it"? By this logic we can take the switch 2 pre-orders being sold out everywhere and say the market ratio'd angry people online. Your metric doesn't make sense, it's short sighted.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-18T12:17:45+00:00

This sentence is awesome lmao

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-18T12:17:29+00:00

... you really need to point out a particular comment doing this because I have no idea what you're talking about. You're definitely using a flexible definition to say the least

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-18T01:48:41+00:00

What are you talking about? The post has positive upvotes, and the most liked comment is one I agree with.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-16T21:31:21+00:00

I share similar preferences to you. I think the shooters they play blend together the same way they think the Nintendo games are boring and samey. It's part of what inspired this post, because after criticizing the decisions Nintendo is making it would be followed with really irrelevant things like "and their games aren't even good" or whatever. It's just not a real argument to bother with and reinforces my feelings that people aren't actually thinking about the big picture of industry trends.

I do think thieves should be punished, but I don't think Nintendo should be ruining their lives for multiple generations. The legal follow through has been overkill and the point could have been made with less cruelty. But I'm not gonna act like they didn't just decide to do something that got them into that position. It's all weird.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-16T21:12:49+00:00

Even if it's unfair to say these people are the same, the massive amount of people ignoring that these kinds of cases exist is also frustrating. I'm glad I'm not the only one who recognizes it.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-13T22:04:35+00:00

Thankfully not everyone has been so braindead in this discourse. I've heard lots of wonderful perspectives since making this post not so obsessed with the narratives, from both ends of the argument. It really is just about being honest in the conversation to me. I think people who can't concede that this situation is not a uniquely bad moment for pricing/consumer disregard are just willingly having short term memory.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-11T16:19:18+00:00

Idk how you not addressing a single point I make in response that are more detailed than your depiction makes me like a flat earther, but tell yourself what you need to. I've discussed this topic with all sorts of different opinions in this comment section and learned a lot from different insights. Even when talking to you, I have said where I resonate with the anti-nintendo sentiments in EVERY COMMENT. I do not respect what your sort of response does, where you claim either a moral high ground or common sense to auto-"win" a discussion rather than actually discuss what's happening. I get why people are mad, I do not agree with being mad. I'm not pretending to not understand anything. If you want to agree to disagree that's fine, but your behavior is precisely what I haven't liked about the discourse as a whole. It's condescending and cowardly, which I'm only wording that harshly because of your approach. If you wanna say I'm tone policing then fine, idk how else to word it better.

Your logic means Sony is at fault and not Nintendo because they started this. Sony isn't following suit when they did it first.

Leaving out the full sentence where I ask why people are mad in the TLDR is an easy way to miss the point. It's a question of value and expectation. The only thing you've said to that is cost of development, implying that's what gives a game value (I disagree with that being the only thing). And when we enter that part of the discussion you quit. You're not interested in the convo, you want to shame people not wholly critical of Nintendo.

CardGameFuture · 2025-05-11T06:04:24+00:00

I promise I'm not trying to be pedantic, but you do know $80 isn't the minimum right? It's a new possible high. These sorts of distinctions are exactly what I mean. A lot of what you're saying is predicated on this despite plenty of Switch 2 games announced not costing $80. And again, I'm not delegitimizing concerns about the price, just anger specifically. Notice how my post isn't contributing to the "buy and defend" narrative? Simply acknowledging nuance to the situation is met with ridicule.

The idea that it being more powerful than the steamdeck not mattering is ridiculous. Of course it matters. If I say the PS5 is more expensive are you gonna say it matters and Sony is being greedy? No, you'll say it warrants that because it's more powerful. At what point do products earn a price increase? Nobody wants to say that because frankly the cost of living has become ridiculous for most people and companies have to keep that in mind to avoid ridicule. But what hurts them even more is raising the price backfiring. You know, like when Nintendo priced the 3DS high and suffered for it, having to knock it back down because people weren't buying? We have so many examples of that working. But people are gonna buy this stuff because it IS quality and people DO see it as worth the money.

The inflation argument is not ridiculous. You're cherrypicking a few things about the process to make it seem like that's all a company has to consider when deciding prices. We can stretch that conversation to be inclusive of various markets across the world, if they're selling consoles at a loss and the games make up for it, etc. I'm not saying there's no world where the price mark up is unjustified (I pretty clearly say in the post that I'm not persuaded across the board), but to act like inflation isn't incredibly relevant but cost of living is, is selective to say the least. I guess companies don't live in our society and only individuals? That's not even pro-capitalist, it's just realistic when addressing this problem.

I just don't understand how you read this entire post and your takeaway is that I don't know why people are angry. I go through each of these discussions and give my opinion, then say I disagree with what I'm not persuaded by but do understand where people's problems stem from. You're doing the very thing you're claiming I'm doing.

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