“ I distinctly recall saying something to the effect that it felt like we were in Zombieland or 28 Days Later.”

I’ve played quite a bit this past week. B4B is definitely NOT the new L4D. I’m enjoying it enough, but it fails in almost every aspect that L4D does right. This isn’t just nostalgia on my end either. There are things in B4B that are just inferior to L4D2

I think it’s entirely because they barely won those cases on that argument that they want to play extremely safe here.

I’ve never played Left 4 Dead. I’m obviously aware of what Valve’s iconic shooter is all about—team up with friends and shoot zombies

like zombies feasting on cerebral miasma

This was my thought as well; If moving forward these sub-30 DLC packs are going to be part of the subscription, that’s actually a great model. If it stays as just this ACNH one then it’s pretty rough. I could also see a model where they rotate out the on offer DLC, but that would also not be a great move.

I’m guessing it’s because of potential scams. If someone makes an NFT game on Steam, sells a bunch of NFTs, then takes the money and runs, it’ll make Steam look bad. I don’t think the people who got scammed would have any recourse against Steam, but it’s not worth the negative attention.

Regardless of what you think or what’s going on with NFT’s, they do carry a real world value, as chips would at a casino. Makes sense for a store front like Steam cutting them out before it turns into another gambling headache for them.

“It’s pretty funny that Steam thinks that NFTs contain real value”

But it’s a bar

You should really play L4D then!

Do you mean for all systems overall, or just N64?

Gonna second this. The Genesis and Saturn Retro Bit controllers are pretty rad and work great with the Switch, have more features, and are cheaper than these, while also still being officially licensed Sega products.

They also have the benefit of being able to be used with the PC as well.

That would make sense, but Nintendo has earned something of a reputation for sitting on things that would seem to make perfect sense.

I was going to do this for at least a year, and then I saw that if your subscription lapsed you’d lose access to the DLC.

There are definitely people who’d spend more than 20 minutes playing some of these N64 titles. I just think it’s the price and the games as a service model that doesn’t make sense for accessing these retro games. Is it worth an extra $30 to play Mario Tennis or Star Fox 64 for a year? Just a really odd way of giving…

It’s like Nintendo thinks they have Switch users by the short hairs and they’ll pay anything to get their stuff.

Yeah... This isn’t great. I already feel ripped off for the $20 I’m spending as the online service is garbage. Adding $30 on top of that for games I already own? No thanks.

Nintendo has done their research. They know the majority of people will pay, anyways.

I have.. 3 years left on my membership. Yeah I took advantage of a lot of free/discounted offers. Curious to see what my upgrade will be.

But, seriously, if Nintendo wants to charge $50/year they need to be putting, at minimum, 3-5 games on it per month going forward. Not 2 sporadically every few months.

Mischief Makers or GTFO