12th June 2013, 10:50 AM
I would still like to find a definitive statement confirming that, yes, "sales thresholds" are a thing of the past, and publishers are getting paid on a regular basis (say, monthly) regardless of how many sales they actually made.
Another good move by Nintendo was twofold. They abandoned "Wii Points" in favor of real world currency (except Bitcoins, oh right, REAL currency, not "here's how you buy drugs without being tracked" currency), and further, you can pay EXACTLY the sticker price without having to pay for "chunks" of cash to be put in a wallet. Mind you, the option to pick "put in $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, or $20.00" is still right there as big buttons right on the purchase screen, but nestled right under those buttons is a sweet little "pay the exact amount" button that just pays exactly what the price of your items is. It is rather annoying to pay MORE than the listed amount, with the remained sticking around in purgatory like unspent Disney Dollars until the next purchase. Now, Playstation Network DOES allow for this as well, but only if your shopping cart total is over $5.00. (As a direct result of this, I forgo buying single items less than $5.00 until something else shows up on the store I can bundle with it to total over that threshold.) So, Nintendo recognizes now that fake currency never helped anyone. I suspect MS is abandoning "Microsoft Points" as well. Too bad everything associated with MS right now is toxic waste.
I recognize that I'm "on the band wagon", that I'm banded to this wagon, or perhaps it is a wagon for a band, and I am on it as a roadie, but the song they sing is sweet to the ears, and unobjectionable. I thus join them willingly and with thought towards their goal and not just out of a popularity for wagons per say.
Another good move by Nintendo was twofold. They abandoned "Wii Points" in favor of real world currency (except Bitcoins, oh right, REAL currency, not "here's how you buy drugs without being tracked" currency), and further, you can pay EXACTLY the sticker price without having to pay for "chunks" of cash to be put in a wallet. Mind you, the option to pick "put in $5.00, $10.00, $15.00, or $20.00" is still right there as big buttons right on the purchase screen, but nestled right under those buttons is a sweet little "pay the exact amount" button that just pays exactly what the price of your items is. It is rather annoying to pay MORE than the listed amount, with the remained sticking around in purgatory like unspent Disney Dollars until the next purchase. Now, Playstation Network DOES allow for this as well, but only if your shopping cart total is over $5.00. (As a direct result of this, I forgo buying single items less than $5.00 until something else shows up on the store I can bundle with it to total over that threshold.) So, Nintendo recognizes now that fake currency never helped anyone. I suspect MS is abandoning "Microsoft Points" as well. Too bad everything associated with MS right now is toxic waste.
I recognize that I'm "on the band wagon", that I'm banded to this wagon, or perhaps it is a wagon for a band, and I am on it as a roadie, but the song they sing is sweet to the ears, and unobjectionable. I thus join them willingly and with thought towards their goal and not just out of a popularity for wagons per say.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)