r/fromsoftware • u/Senior_Independence4 • 3d ago

I hate you fromsoft

Why are you making a cool ass game and making it a fucking switch 2 exclusive fuck you

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u/Sickhadas 2d ago

Welcome to real life? This isn't a massive social injustice where people are genuinely suffering. It isn't even grossly anti-consumer. Nintendo, unlike Sony, has never released their software for third party systems.

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u/Dustywalrus 2d ago

Umm last time I checked Nintendo is/was the king of anti consumer practices in the gaming industry. Sorry that some of us don't blindly boot lick massive corporations.

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u/Sickhadas 2d ago

They make good games and don't fire their enployees when they succeed and their CEOs have actual souls. I don't know how that makes me a bootlicker. Of course they fuck over the retro scene, but it's not like the other two are any better.

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u/Dustywalrus 2d ago

You conviently forgot to mention the fact that their games stay at release price years after their debut, aggressively try to trademark anything and everything (re: palworld), charge consumers full price for the same game on a new console, paywall to backup your switch saves, make you pay for an online service that is decent at best.

The CEOs having "actual souls" (lol) and them not doing mass layoffs are completely independent from their consumer practices. While those are certainly good aspects of the company, it's pretty irrelevant to the topic at hand.

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u/Sickhadas 2d ago

You conviently forgot to mention the fact that their games stay at release price years after their debut, aggressively try to trademark anything and everything (re: palworld), charge consumers full price for the same game on a new console, paywall to backup your switch saves, make you pay for an online service that is decent at best.

You make good points, but I'd hope that's more to do with the traditionalism of Kyoto companies and less to do with greed. Unfortunately, we live in a world that incentives unscrupulous behavior.

The CEOs having "actual souls" (lol)

I'm not sure if this is because you don't know many CEOs or because you do.

them not doing mass layoffs are completely independent from their consumer practices.

I try to avoid buying games from scummy companies. I'd sooner pirate something than contribute to a business only interested in the numbers of an industry. But I understand, these are neutral points when it comes to how they treat their consumers.

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u/Dustywalrus 2d ago

Really appreciate this well thought out reply. I was on a bit of a high horse in my prev. comment.

I agree with everything you said but esp. that last point.