Every company is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, genuinely wanting to determine how many will be allowed to be consumed without resistance.
They spent years feigning to cater to customers whims, now their big bets on acting shitty and cruel and see if it’s profitable.
In the best-case scenario, they believe they can treat their customers like Ike treated Tina Turner and still reap the benefits.
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.
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”.
Strange they’re not offering an offline mode. They already have AI implemented for single player mode.
Nintendo - you have to pay me full price for games that are over 15 years old, no exceptions!
Also Nintendo - Sorry gotta kill this game after 7 years and take your money, we don’t plan on supporting this anymore 🖕
To their credit, the game used to be quite playable even for non-subscribers and now that they are shutting it down, they stopped charging and are giving all benefits to everyone.
Just Kill Games.
so weird to me that they don’t offer a paid, offline version like they did with animal crossing pocket camp…
Seriously, when Mega Man X Dive Offline became a thing I was sure that would become the norm for these types of games.
It would be cool to still have, but was anyone still playing it? I gave up quickly and out of all my friends that tried it, not one has played it in years.
Also:
Perhaps the lack of an offline version is down to the fact that Mario Kart World is seen as a key driver for the uptake of Switch 2 — and Nintendo would much rather you purchase a console to play that
Who is playing a bad mobile MK game instead of playing a console one? I feel like these two circles in the Venn diagram never overlapped. And if someone really wants that, get a used Switch lite and MK8. A good amount of the tracks were ported over to that game with better graphics, performance and no online requirements.
Does it matter? It starts with the mobile games, but that’s how these big publishers boil the frog. Always gotta start with low heat and ramp it up slowly until-
Oops, no more disk drives! Don’t like it? Too bad! Buy our new product!
It was surprising that Nintendo even tried mobile games, their consoles have always been their thing
Who is playing a bad mobile MK game instead of playing a console one
I was. The mobile game is totally different from the console, but that doesn’t mean it was bad.
