"Pay 99 Cents To Make Mario Jump Higher," Hedge Fund Urges

[Ldude893]

With all due respect, Fischer: your advice is fucking insane. From what I gather from your proposal, you're someone who doesn't know the meaning of respecting customers, you put profits at an excessively higher priority than actually making games worth playing, and you are ignorant of the backlash against microtransactions over the past years; ESPECIALLY with the recent Dungeon Keeper game by EA (and the prime evidence on how NOT to milk cash out of players in a game). Frankly, if Nintendo followed the model you're proposing it'll be better off axing itself fully before it turns into a Japanese version of EA Games.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher."

I did think of that. And then I threw up in my mouth a little.

Fortunately, it's highly unlikely that Nintendo- at least under its current management- would ever go this route. Unfortunately, it also seems like Nintendo would be unlikely to follow the much better suggestion made by several posters here and release some of its less-famous franchises for mobile phones.

 

[wulfy42]

You know, some Final Fantasy games are already on the ipad. Why not start putting out some other very famous NES games?

Duck hunt.....could be fun.

The original Zelda, and especially Links Advantures .....would be great.

Actually there is a huge list of games that would easily port over to the ipad at this point, and...there seriously isn't any reason not to do it. In fact, I think you could probably make software that is small enought to run as an emulator of NES games, that you could directly download on your ipad. You could then resell most NES games on the ipad and have a huge selection of games instantly available to everyone.

They should totally do it. Forget the stupid Wii U.....go retro and aim for the future.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think you're right to be scared. It's disturbing to see people practically begging for corporations to shit all over us. And as I said before, part of my fear related to Nintendo is that they're in a bad position right now and might feel the need to run this route.

Of course, people seem to forget the other half of the equation: corporations are supposed to want as much money as possible, and we're supposed to want as much value as possible. It is outright stupid of people to champion these business models because it's what corporations are supposed to do when they're the consumers.

It's really distressing that Nintendo is one of the last companies out there that is unwilling to pull these kind of shit business practices, but considering the dire straights that Nintendo now finds itself in that may not last for much longer. As mentioned it baffles me that anyone would be clamouring to see this happen. Oh sure, Nintendo games on smart phones, sounds great. Nintendo games on smart phones with microtransactions? Fuck no! Why would anyone defend this?
The day Nintendo starts using microtransactions is the day I abandon the company forever.

 

[Easton Dark]

Nintendo's probably laughing this guy away.

They would not dare to jeopardize their console business by losing game exclusivity after the Wii sold enough to buy them an island made of gold.

Mobile Mario is huge returns in the short term, which investors like. Destroys returns later on.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Go ahead, there are good mobile games. But you put microtransactions in there and you've fucked it up. You don't want that kind of shit on your record, Nintendo. Leave it to EA and the parasites that actually live in the mobile business.

 

[Yopaz]

I'm pretty sure only people who rated Dungeon Keeper Mobile as 5 stars would think this is a good business plan.

Turns out a good deal of those who rated Dungeon Keeper 5 stars were boxed in. They could either rate 5 stars or be sent to a contact form to send a complaint making it virtually impossible to rate the game lower than 5 unless you first rated it 5 then went back to edit your review afterwards.

New business tactic to hide bad reviews. Nintendo should do that too if they decide to put micro transactions in their games.

 

[Mortuorum]

Just think of paying 99 cents just to get Mario to jump a little higher.

Everything about that sentence makes my skin crawl. Seth Fischer is clearly a reptiloid.

 

[Aiddon_v1legacy]

Nintendo is structured in such a way that shareholders don't really hold that much power. Furthermore, this company has so little stake in the company that it matters even less. This is just a case of an idiot mouthing off. And you'd think people would find a different tune to sing after Nintendo shooting them down time and time again.

 

[loa]

Yes because alienating their consumerbase is totally not what brought them in this situation in the first place.

 

[Frankster]

Let's push this idea to its logical conclusion

The princess is in another castle! We hoped you enjoyed the preview levels, if you would like to unlock the next levels and rescue the princess, please buy the prenium add on for 3.99 $

You only have the mushroom power up, all the rest need to be unlocked by paying for them INDIVIDUALLY.

Bowser boss battles are eliminated from the game to "streamline the experience for a wider audience" but do not fret! Buy the Bowser Addon for 3.99$ you can relieve the epic battles!

Tired of playing mario? For 4.99 you can play the entire game as Luigi instead!

You can only complete 1 level every 24 hours, this game is meant to be experienced on the go and in short doses, it is NOT designed for intense playing sessions. If customers so desire it though, they can accelerate the cooldown by paying 1500 gems (gems are buyable in packs of 1000, buy 150 000 gems for 30$ for best value!)

Yet the fucked up part is all this still sounds better then paying 0.99$ for mario jumping higher. Guess this is why Im not a hedge fund manager. Or anyone financially successful for that matter.

 

[Cerebrawl]

Duck hunt.....could be fun.

Super Scope 6!

 

[Auron225]

"Man, I wish I could pay microtransactions for features that should already be present in gameplay!" ~ No-one ever

To me this is on par with him suggesting to Nintendo that they should all grow twirly moustaches and laugh manically as they tie women onto train tracks because profit.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh sure, Nintendo games on smart phones, sounds great. Nintendo games on smart phones with microtransactions? Fuck no! Why would anyone defend this?

Agreed on both counts. I'd love to see older games on the Play Store (Since I have an Android phone), but adding MTs just seems like a recipe to kill my interest. Maybe it works, though. They'll just lose me in the process.

They would not dare to jeopardize their console business by losing game exclusivity after the Wii sold enough to buy them an island made of gold.

Someone should probably remind them how that worked out for Sony.

Here's the thing: it's bad business for companies to lose money. Even if they made a ton previously. Eating your own assets is not good.

Now, that doesn't mean they should go MTs on their products, but laughing at people and going their own way caused them to start posting losses. So....

New business tactic to hide bad reviews. Nintendo should do that too if they decide to put micro transactions in their games.

Except for the "new" part.

Also, I think his point remains. The people who rated it 5 weren't forced to do so. The issue is that they gamed the system by making it harder to offer lower ratings.

 

[t00bz]

The day Nintendo puts in a Micro Transaction to make Mario jump higher gaming is dead.

Is Nintendo even really relevant to most gamers at this point?

 

[Yopaz]

New business tactic to hide bad reviews. Nintendo should do that too if they decide to put micro transactions in their games.

Except for the "new" part.

Also, I think his point remains. The people who rated it 5 weren't forced to do so. The issue is that they gamed the system by making it harder to offer lower ratings.

This is Nintendo we're talking about, new is relative. They can probably sell micro transactions as new when they can sell "New" Super Mario Bros 2.

Also fair point. No-one had to vote, but if it works like the system with some of the other games they have published with a "Rate our game" pop-up coming up constantly then I probably would have given it 5 stars just to make it stop. Well... I don't think I would have kept playing that game once I realized that the games is basically a "Give EA money" simulator that's a tad too realistic. I stand corrected then.

 

[Wackymon]

You know, I'm wondering if Nintendo would mind going to the Live-based system. Port games to Mobile devices, and you can pay 4-10 dollars to play it without worrying about lives, OR you could pay a quarter to a dollar to get a shot at playing one of the older games. You can install the game, but without any Lives, the app is dead, UNLESS you buy the Lifeless game.
I mean, look at some of their older games, maybe they would be useful. Heck, maybe simply allow people to buy Lives in the Original mario Bros.

Heck, maybe just make the original Mario games free, but allow you to buy extra lives. Seems like a simple method of making money.