>Unlocks mundane content like skins or ammo >REEEEE!!!

>>385607009
There was a time when you would buy a game with 1 payment.

You know what they could've done? Make it content you get in-game, but the amiibo locks it early. I don't think any level headed person had a problem with that. It's when a full priced game has content behind an additional paywall, and the game isn't even released yet.

>>385607332
>what are expansion packs

>>385607378
>comparing expansion packs to little add ons

>>385607332
yeah, before games were about lights and sounds making development non affordable under the 50-60$ ceiling

>>385607376
>It's when a full priced game has content behind an additional paywall, and the game isn't even released yet.
so most season passes?

>>385607332
>Back in mah day...............

yeah games had live systems that aged like milk and ate quarters from many players sharing the same game

tell me more about how mean nintendo is because you have to buy dlc

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>bought Samus because I want all her amiibos for collectionfaggotry
>the Metroid has the cool stuff

great

>>385607332
I just buy the amiibo and pirate the game

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Locking the extra content behind amiibos wouldn't be a problem if you could buy that content through other means as well.
Binding content to physical items, that can sell out, is just a scumbag move in this day and age.
For you as the customer, there is no good reason to defend this practice.

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>>385607418

>>385607378
Expansions were made after the game. This is a stark difference from cutting content, you retard.

>>385607443
Season passes are a cancer. You should've known this back when Evolve did it. Hell, back when any game did it.

>>385607462
>Locking the extra content behind amiibos wouldn't be a problem if you could buy that content through other means as well.
Extra difficulties shouldn't be locked behind a paywall at all, you fucking twat.

>>385607462
yeah, Nintendo should figure out a way to for people to unlock the content if they didnt manage to get the amiibo.

I think that was supposed to be the use of the (that never released) amiibo cards.

3$ booster packs for cards you could trade with other people

>>385607538
Extra EXTRA dificults is not a problem. Fusion is like VERY HARD. game already has a Hard mode

>>385607503
problem is. you dont know if the content was made to make hte amiibo worth or the content was made and they split up for Amiibo

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>>385607606
>removing one difficulty is ok because we already have a hard mode

Meanwhile in any DMC game

>>385607765
please. dont talk as if any of those were a worthy or not removal, specially DMC when its 1 hit kills all or 1 hit kills me

you needed a game link cable, a gba, and a copy of zero mission to unlock the fusion suit in metroid prime

>>385607818
Legendary Dark Knight is the same difficulty as Son of Sparda but has triple the enemy count resulting in truly chaotic fights. There is your "worthy" difficulty.

Your move.

Fusion mode just sounds like a difficulty mode with a costume change. Please show where they state there are no other difficulty modes.

>>385607503

ahahahahahhahaha xD

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>>385607009
The problem isn't DLC.
The problem is that this content is traditionally unlocked through normal means in every other Metroid game.

Grow the fuck up, anon.

>>385607896
I dont mean worthy as in skill level just adding enemy numbers or damage values

I meant if it were to lock difficulties to add extra attack patterns of new monsters

>>385608018
this is beyond just Metrod. but its hte same cry out every new amiibo is released. if its too much content people cry, if its to few or mundane, people cry too

>>385608018

Isn't there a normal hard mode too?

>>385607009
amiibo just shouldn't exist period, they are fundamentally a garbage concept.

>>385607462
Not to mention not everyone wants extra clutter in their house just to get content in a game.

>>385608321
not really, for me they are a change to get a figure of character I like that I know would not get one or wont have to be the 40-70-100$ ones

>>385607332
fpbp, all the replies shitting on this are underage.

People whined back in previous gens that Nintendo was "behind the times" but that was a fucking good thing, it meant they still made complete games with no bullshit attached. Now that they're "modernizing" themselves you get shit like amiibo, rampant DLC, paid online, mobile garbage, etc.

>>385608087
You definitely haven't played LDK mode if you don't think that alone isn't worth the cost of the game.

>>385607009
Because amiibo's are a fucking garbage concept. It mixes in several kinds of trash in a blender
>toys to life
>expensive
>dlc

>>385608375
YES really. If they were just Nintendo merchandise that would be a different thing, but they are actively damaging the games. Stop defending this garbage.

Making a complete game.

People are yelling cancer about it... We can pirate amiibo too for a very reasonable price. You guys are the biggest cunts.

I bet that most of you don't even own a 3DS that can read the nfc chips to begin with.

>>385608470
>it's okay because you can bypass it illegally

Do you even read your own posts?

>>385608513
he is not wrong to a certain degree tho.

on the flip side, most people likely buy amiibo for the figure than the content it unlocks

>>385608513
All of the amiibos combined is less than 1mb. The cards to write to are less than a dollar each. Keep it up and the lack of sales will convince Nintendo that amiibos are a garbage tier idea.

>>385608642
Amiboos themselves don't hold any significant data, you dumb fuck. They just hold their NFC id.

>>385608563
>on the flip side, most people likely buy amiibo for the figure than the content it unlocks

This makes it better how? If people only wanted the thing it unlocks they can't get it seperately, they have to spend more money to buy a piece of plastic.

Amiibo's are anti-consumer.

>>385608470
I've had my 3DS since 2013, the original model.
You're childish assumptions are in the same line as "/v/ users are all virgins and friendless losers".
I highly suggest you put your pride away, stop being immature, and quit defending precious darling Nintendo at every turn.

Fanboys need to grow the hell up.

>>385608959
that is my point, most crying about amiibo dont likely buy it anyways. they just think the content was some how butchered last minute to be fit into the figures

Do you think there will ever be a Nintendo game where every single Amiibo is compatible and unlocks something of value?

>>385609192
Smash??

>>385607009
who says the first thing? Amiibos are the biggest disgrace Nintendo ever put out. They were ok for Smash Bros, don't need to be much more.

>>385608513
Please stop being a moralfag, I'm talking about pirating something that you DON'T want to spend a single buck on it. If you are against piracy, stop complaining and buy that stupid Metroid Amiibo.

Like >>385608563 pointed, I think that almost every amiibo buyers (myself included, I have a few amiibos, never unlocked their content) just collect them.

I'm not talking about pirating the whole game, just pirate that stupid amiibo, unlock that stupid hard mode and move on. Since you are not ok with it locked behind a 15 bucks figure, just pirate it, it's as simple as that. I mean, you've never pirated something in your life ? Are you streaming every you listen to or watch ? Did you buy all the musics on your phone ? Please stop complaining about pirating a nfc chip.

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>Literally buying "horse armor" tier DLC for $15-$25 and stupid toys.

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>Nintendo kids defending traditional content sold as physically bought content
I shouldn't be surprised. Nintendo apologists are absolute cancer.
The fanbase was lucky with Iwata. He wasn't greedy.
Now there's this new old fuck who's a businessman. Fanboys are gonna be busy defending all his business decisions just because it's Nintendo.

You don't see the same white knighting or mercy being given to Capcom.

>>385609126
Locking out content is not pro-consumer, even if it is something simple like a difficulty setting.

No one with a brain would support Amiibos.

>>385607009
Amiibos are fundamentally no different than DLC as far as I'm concerned. They are locking extra content behind a price-tag when you're already paying full price for the base game. It's an annoying way to nickle and dime your audience for trivial bonus content.

Unlike expansion packs which generally came a year or so after the base game and were jampacked full of content, DLC is almost always just some tiny little add-ons that are borderline insulting to the consumer.

>how would you fix it??
This:
>>385607332
Go back to the golden age of gaming. It still works, and people give huge praise to any game that still does it. See Shovel Knight, RimWorld, Factorio, PUBG, etc.: 1 payment for the base game, no DLC, free updates, no bullshit, tons of mods to make the game even better. All these games receive overwhelming praise for having good business practices and not milking their fans for an extra buck.

Sure it might mean they get less money per customer, but more people will buy their game if it's any good, resulting in more cash overall.

>>385609343
under this idea 90% of the current industry is not pro consumer

>>385609378
>Go back to the golden age of gaming
we could still live on the golden age, but NOOO sony and microsoft decide to play muscle war with PC.
Nintendo idea on Wii era was by far the most beneficial on the long run. and no, im not talking about motion controls

>>385609064
I'm not defending Nintendo because :

I have the original 3DS model, I can't read amiibos, I won't be able to unlock the additional content for the game.

I just think it's stupid to complain that much about something people are able to unlock easily through piracy. If you guys like to spend 20 bucks on a mouse mat, you can spend less than 5 bucks to be able to pirate every amiibo for any games.

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>>385609407
Nobody is denying that. It absolutely is.
A few years ago, Nintendo denounced the trend of selling content separately, and every Nintendo fanatic reposted and parroted it to death whenever the subject came up.
>Nintendo will never stoop as low as DLC

Now it's like it's completely forgotten. All hail Amiibos. Whoopiedoo.

>>385607009
Stuff that is already on the that cartridge you own should not be locked behind a $15 toy.

How fucking hard is that to understand you jew-slave?

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>digital content is better than physical one! Why isn't Nintendo doing what other companies like EA or Ubisoft are doing?!
retarded people

I actually don't hate Amiibos as an idea. A toy that unlocks a character or skin in each game you play is neat. I don't really know how they work though, and wouldn't buy them.

The real trouble is that Nintendo now do dlc and paid online. I don't buy DLC and I won't be buying any more online games from Nintendo.

I greatly prefer single player, but it will be something I consider strongly when I buy a game - whether or not realistically it's worth it without an online component.

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>minor extra modes and features as DLC
>5.00 USD or less usually

>minor extra modes and features as DLC
>13.00 USD per feature as physical content that can sell out
>want every feature unlocked = 40-50 USD approx

>defending this

>>385609814
>childish misdirection 101

>physical rather than digital
>DLC at all
>at ridiculous prices

>>385609814
>still liking boxes
Retarded anon

>>385609963
Isn't the point of Amiibos that it works on every game? I don't defend DLC, I never, ever buy it. But that's a false equivalency.

I miss the time when all you had to do is pay once and get a game without feeling like the rest was left for a "expansion" that will eventually come later on.

>>385610121
Some work on maybe 1-3 games withing a series, and with other games that they MAYBE work with it just gives you random unrelated shit.

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>>385608443
bingo

>>385607009
>how would you fix it??
The best way would be to have hard/fusion mode, gallery, and whatever else unlockable with the amiibos before someone beats it the first time around, but still let people unlock all of that stuff with no amiibo after a playthrough or fulfilling a specific time/percentage requirement. It would allow the impatient people to get what they want immediately without making everyone have to hunt down every related figure.
There's a fair amount to talk about with amiibos in general. I remember hearing someone from Nintendo saying that they did not like people buying amiibos only to collect instead of using them. Forcing these kind of locks seem to be their solution to that, but I think a better solution is to create some kind of Nintendo World or something that utilizes amiibos in the same way Skylanders and Disney Infinity did with their respective games. It would give practically every amiibo a relevant use and hopefully stop locking content in other games, but that's a pipe dream at this point. The whole thing should have been handled better.

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>shit existed for almost 4 years
>people started complaining about it just now
You could have stopped this a long time ago but you chose to ignore it.
Now face the consequences you fat manchildren

>>385610121
Not every game. Only like 2 out of 10 amiibos work across multiple games and even then the things unlocked are barely worth it.

You gotta look real hard for an Amiibo that's worth its price in what it unlocks.

>>385610121
>Isn't the point of Amiibos that it works on every game?
What gave you that retarded idea? If that would be the case, then Nintendo couldn't sell Link to you in 5 different poses.

>>385610309
How could they have stopped it you idiot? They didn't buy it if they ignored it, that's literally the only solution.

It's almost like amiibos are a shitty product that fucks over consumers who aren't willing to suck off Nintendo for everything they do.

>>385610309
I haven't bought a single amiibo and I've never supported this ridiculous concept to begin with.

>>385610385
>if they don't complain about it then they're with it
This black and white mentality is what makes this world a shitty place

>>385610374
>>385610364
>>385610189
Oh fair enough. All the ones I've seen on Amazon have had people in comments saying they do things in x, y or z game. Surely they've run out of characters by now anyway.

>>385610385
>>385610440
But you started complaining about it just now?

>>385610309
>>385610385
>>385610440
you could have not cause as some other anon already pointed out, most people buy the amiibo for the figures, not hte content.

if anything all the people false flagging on the internet about how "amiibos unlocks nothing worthy" are the ones responsible for this shit

>>385610508
>Surely they've run out of characters by now anyway.
How is that an issue exactly?

They're releasing another set of Mario, Peach and Bowser for Odyssey. This time with wedding costumes.

I believe to remember that when Nintendo first revealed amiibos, they stressed that amiibo would not unlock content but functionality instead.

That is the answer to your, question, OP!
>how would you fix it??

In Smash Brothers, all that amiibo would unlock was the amiibo menu. From within that menu, you were able to customize your amiibos.
Even if we'd have allowed players without an amiibo to access this menu, they wouldn't have had any use for it. In this case, the game gives features towards the figures, not the other way around.

The whole idea of training your lil' personal characters living inside those figures wouldn't have made sense without those figures in the first place. Those who do have no interest in amiibos, will not miss out on anything due to a lack of amiibos. Because everything that is locked behind amiibos is directly correlated to the amiibos themselves.

The stuff in Samus Returns doesn't have anything to do with amiibos. It doesn't write onto the amiibos, it doesn't playfully project your amiibos into the game world, it simply unlocks something that was previously most often unlocked by beating the game. And that is bullshit.

http://www.nintendo.com/amiibo/compatibility

people see amiibo as 1 time DLC, when (some) of em are an investment as new games (some) do unlock things with past amiibos

>>385610309

You do realize that just because a minority despises Amiibo as a whole, doesn't mean they're absolutely capable of dethroning the majority that buy Amiibo like flocks of sheep, right?

Do not ever judge the power of blind followings.

>>385610680
see >>385610567

>>385610560
Who?
Amiibos have always been complained about. Where have you been?

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>buying this cheap shit as collectables instead of paying a bit more and getting an actually high quality figure
Anyone who says they buy amiibos for the figures are mentally deficient.

>>385610827
Not an argument against my reasoning. You are arguing about how much worth the content amiibos unlock really is, but I'm saying it shouldn't unlock content at all, but simply unlock functionality.

The existence of DLC legitimately discourages me from buying a game. I feel like I have to wait for a complete pack later down the line, or I won't be playing the game properly.

>>385610867
Everyone started complaining about it ever since youtubers like Yong started doing it.
Where have you been?

>>385610964
Maybe not everyone has the money to buy a figma or whatever shit but still want a collectable

>>385611554
Then save that money instead and buy something actually good later. Fucking 6 year old kids can handle their money better.

>can't find the amiibo in stores anywhere except for scalpers
>can't unlock the content as a result
Shit is worse than DLC.

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>>385610964
>already have the Smash Bros collection Samus and Zero Suit Samus amiibos
>considered getting the new Metroid amiibo two-pack, but not sure yet
>having a much superior Samus coming in due to a pre-order of figma Corruption style Samus
>now due to the locked content, feel like I MUST buy the Metroid two-pack and an NFC reader as well as fiddle with the packaging of my previous amiibos so I can use them to unlock stuff

Feels bad man.

>>385607009
I "unlocked" all amiibo costumes for botw with hacks. This is why I pity anyone who buys a toy for a on disc content.
>>385611675
Also this.

>>385607009
Kys nintenc.uck