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Nintendo to charge for online gaming
deadonthestreet
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http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendo-to-beg.html
So, essentially they are offering far and away the worst online play of any of the consoles, and now they are going to start charging on a game by game basis? This is an absolutely awful plan.
-- Nintendo's Wi-Fi Connection service has always been entirely free of charge, but the company will soon introduce a pay-to-play service for some games, it announced at Game Developers Conference.
"Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection Pay And Play" will let users subscribe on a game-by-game basis to certain titles. Nintendo project leader Takashi Aoyama announced the service at GDC, but did not say what upcoming games would require payment for the service, or how much they would cost.
To avoid customer confusion, Pay-And-Play games will have a red icon on the game's box that reads Pay And Play, in place of the traditional blue Wi-Fi Connection icon, which will only be used for games that are free to play.
This is a pretty big change for Nintendo, who has always been adamant about wanting online gameplay to be free. While this might attract more developers to the service with a new revenue stream, it also might confuse consumers -- and be a hassle if the payment system isn't easy. You'll use Wii Points to pay for the online gaming, so it should be interesting to see if this extends to the DS Lite or if it's just restricted to Wii.
So, essentially they are offering far and away the worst online play of any of the consoles, and now they are going to start charging on a game by game basis? This is an absolutely awful plan.
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However, I would be glad to pay to play an online Pokemon MMO. Hint hint, Nintendo.
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Brawl is out in Japan, and has free online. It would be stupid to assume that Nintendo would force the Americas to pay for online.
If it's for online in general, then I give them a big Fuck You.
It'll probably be for games that have more operating costs than the typical peer-to-peer games that use the service so far.
But I'm not paying for it in any case.
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Also, Nintendo games will now have DLC.
http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/02/nintendo-will-b.html
My guess is that Animal Crossing Wii will support a form of item transfer like the previous version, but with more customizations. If you're able to design shirts, tiles, hairstyles, wallpapers, etc, etc. The Database could get pretty big for so many people playing. If there is a "World of Animal Crossing" where every city can be pinpointed on a map (ala Second Life style) with major urban areas run by Nintendo it could scale the cost of that game quite a bit.
Or... it could finally be that fucking Harry Potter MMO using the Wiimote as a wand...*cumsplosion*
A lot of good that does if we don't get some kind of external storage. We're not gonna be able to download anything if we can only use the internal storage.
nintendo's making money hand over fist and they've gone crazy
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SURELY with all the talk of Wii Ware and DLC we'll have some sort of storage solution in the near future... right?
Also, the more I think about Nintendo's plan to charge online, the more it sounds like a pain in the ass. Live has a single fee that covers every game (outside of MMOs). But having to subscribe game-by-game? Ergh.
No it doesn't.
Or it could end up doing little. I'm going to wait and see what kind of games the PtP thing applies to before getting angry.
I swear to God, Nintendo, I will forsake you if you fuck it up. The only reason I'm putting up with your crap FC's is because the service is free.
I'll try and find it...
Edit, found it:
I really don't think this is something you can point at nintendo and say "fuck you". Because I doubt nintendo is going to use the method.
I think this is just nintendo saying "look, we have no online infrastructure but we want 3rd parties to develop games for the wii so we're going to allow them to charge if they want".
This isn't that unusual.
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Unless their new "pay to play" games have a persistent friends list (without friends codes), voice chat, invitation in game to other games, and all the other features that I can pay 5 dollars a month for on live this is a horrible idea.
How much are they going to charge a month for this (possibly per game)? $5? Why the fuck would anyone pay that when you can pay $5 and get quality online across the whole of live?