Okay, well first I'm not upset. I can't settle down because I am settled.8bit wrote:This topic has gotten out of hand IMHO. Some people need to settle down. There is a concept called supply and demand that drives our free market. Maybe yall should remind yourself what that means.
If a company wants to try to overcharge for something that people in general agree is too much, then they won't buy it. If the company is driven to make more sales to those not buying they will bring the price down.
Plenty of people think $349 is too much for a new Wii U. So they will not buy it until the price comes down. Nintendo knows this and the price will come down eventually if or when they deem it necessary. They are not forced to lower the price but the market is speaking to Nintendo when they do or do not make a purchase. It's the companies job to listen to this feedback and make adjustments as needed. Or like in Apples case, they want to carry a premium brand and part of that brand is their very well thought out pricing scheme. Just because you think $999 is too much for their entry level laptop that does not give you the right to steal one.
IGN covered the the topic about having to repurchase media across platforms very effectively in this recent article. Its worth the 3 minute read. http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/26/ ... tally-fair
I also don't know how many times I have pointed out that I am not advocating piracy. None of my points are meant to encourage someone to steal because of the problems I have with copyright law. Supply and demand has little to do with the reality of how these companies work. Hardware such as the Wii-U is a different story. It costs very little to press and package optical media. One could argue that if the company chose to sell at a more reasonable price then demand would increase, driving up sales, driving up profit, increasing the workforce, building a larger fanbase, etc..
In any case that doesn't factor in with the twisted "You own it, but you don't" attitude. Anyway, I don't know how it seems out of hand or out of control...simply a discussion from my point of view. I'm not angry and I am not insulting anyone and neither has anyone else. Polite discourse should be embraced. Unless you are referring to my joke, which was just that and nothing more, it wasn't meant as an attack at all.
As for the IGN article I don't disagree with that. If a game is made for Wii-U and also made for 3DS, I don't feel entitled to both as they obviously had completely different development cycles. I also don't mind paying a small upgrade fee to move my "intellectual property" from one platform to another. I don't agree with being sold "access to a game" and then being denied access to the exact same game on a different platform without paying full price again. If the game has been upgraded, enhanced, or changed in some way that required effort and work then that does not apply. If it is emulated then I should have access to it after I provide proof of previous ownership, with perhaps a small update fee to cover the minimal cost and effort put into bringing it to the new platform.
