It’s a gambling simulator where you pretend to drive but the final result is almost already predetermined according to how much time/money you spent on gear. Maybe you can get 1-3 positions higher than expected by timing the activation of power ups at the right time, or manually drifting, but the kart drives automatically, for the first levels you can even win without input.
The most exciting part of the game is shooting the firework from the pipe to open the loot box.
Once you take out the loot box system and you take out the pay to win subscription and you unlock all the gear, then where is the “fun” in the “game”? There’s no single player mode to preserve.
I forgot to explain why they can’t just leave it alone and just continue milking whales their subscription/coin purchases: every 3-4 weeks they change the courses with new “events” and SURPRISE! Your expensive gear now here is useless. You grinded for days and/or spent $1000s to have level 8 “beach costume Luigi” that requires to literally find ONE HUNDRED duplicates in the loot boxes? Sorry, those new courses unlock the max points multiplier only with the new “Pizza baking Luigi costume”, go back to level 0 and climb the ladder again with the loot boxes, thanks for playing. Ah and the “Pizza baking Luigi costume” is a limited event, please find all the 100 duplicates in the loot boxes before the end of this month, or you will be never be able to level it again, thanks.
So Nintendo needs to pay a couple employees to think and create the new monthly events with all the new gear, takes a lot of effort, that’s why they can’t just abandon it and continue to just rake in the money from whales
And ps: IMHO the “online racing” part is simulated and it didn’t wasn’t real multiplayer. I played “online” on a severely throttled WiFi connection (so slow that is unusable) and it didn’t bat an eye. It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the “race”.
I played the game years ago.
It’s a gambling simulator where you pretend to drive but the final result is almost already predetermined according to how much time/money you spent on gear. Maybe you can get 1-3 positions higher than expected by timing the activation of power ups at the right time, or manually drifting, but the kart drives automatically, for the first levels you can even win without input.
The most exciting part of the game is shooting the firework from the pipe to open the loot box.
Once you take out the loot box system and you take out the pay to win subscription and you unlock all the gear, then where is the “fun” in the “game”? There’s no single player mode to preserve.
I forgot to explain why they can’t just leave it alone and just continue milking whales their subscription/coin purchases: every 3-4 weeks they change the courses with new “events” and SURPRISE! Your expensive gear now here is useless. You grinded for days and/or spent $1000s to have level 8 “beach costume Luigi” that requires to literally find ONE HUNDRED duplicates in the loot boxes? Sorry, those new courses unlock the max points multiplier only with the new “Pizza baking Luigi costume”, go back to level 0 and climb the ladder again with the loot boxes, thanks for playing. Ah and the “Pizza baking Luigi costume” is a limited event, please find all the 100 duplicates in the loot boxes before the end of this month, or you will be never be able to level it again, thanks.
So Nintendo needs to pay a couple employees to think and create the new monthly events with all the new gear, takes a lot of effort, that’s why they can’t just abandon it and continue to just rake in the money from whales
And ps: IMHO the “online racing” part is simulated and it didn’t wasn’t real multiplayer. I played “online” on a severely throttled WiFi connection (so slow that is unusable) and it didn’t bat an eye. It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the “race”.