Goddam it. I hate Idealistic Paladins. While I can appreciate the desire to point out flawed business practices, the "holier than you" mentality is something I despise. I'm sorry, But I'm going to cut you down. And I'm not going to hold back.
It's not a scam at all. My dictionary says a scam is a "dishonest scheme", and I don't think amiibos are dishonest in any way. You could say it's not worth the price but that definitely doesn't make it a scam. It would only be a scam if, for example, amiibos didn't have any functionality with a game at all.
Maybe. Doesn't mean I don't want to take a stab at it. Like I said, I hate anyone who thinks "I know everything, and this is how stuff should be done."
What is supposed to be the logic behind that? I can think of hundreds of ways to spend 15 bucks more efficiently. With regard to video games, I can buy an entirely new game, as for that matter. I don't know what you're even trying to achieve here. I'm not not buying the amiibo out of protest. I'm not buying it because it's of no value to me because I do not collect them. I've wasted money before too. I can criticize myself with regard to that too. I buy Samsung products although you pay a lot merely for the brand. Doesn't mean I cannot point that out, does it?
They decrease the quality of products but remain an unreasonable price knowing that people will actually buy them nonetheless. Practically speaking that is nothing but taking advantage of the market sitation, and again, any business that does not exploit its customers acts irrational. But the process of decreasing quality in itself is already a scam
I'm sorry, have you followed any of what I was saying? "Demonize"? It's business, like I said. A company exploits customers. They get away with it, they do it. I study economics myself and I will possibly land in a marketing department at one point of my career. I'd do the exact same thing. I'd do everything I can get away with. As long as people eat off my hand, I put in as little work as possible.
"Con artists"? I'm sorry, do you know how a company works? Every user here makes me believe more and more that this is Gamefaqs. A company does what they get away with as long as the customers are exploitable. There are no moral standards behind marketing. Nintendo is not a person. No company is there to entertain you. It is a relationship between principle and agent. Offering products and buying products. Nothing else.
I'm not trying to change your or anyone else's mind. Yes, I don't like these amiibos because I have no use for them. So I don't buy them. I don't have a personal relationship with the amiibos. They are objects. Useful, I buy them. Useless, I don't. That is all there is to that story. I'm not trying to change anyone's opinion. All that has happened is that people got aggressive over me criticizing as what I see to be a clear scam. That's not any different than anyone saying they enjoy the amiibo. Views can be negative, and I'm not going to sugarcoat a negative view. I had no high expectations either. I pre-ordered, waited for the result, the result was terrible so I canceled my pre-prder. I haven't lost anything. I'm getting my money back and don't have a reason to personally despise that certain amiibo. But I damn well criticize it.
That's fair. You're allowed to have your own opinion and not like the Amiibo and nobody has a right to try and convince you to suddenly like them, but the fact remains that the reason people started to argue with you from the looks of it seems to be the fact that you are calling it a scam and most people can't seem to see why? Sure, it has less than the other splatoon amiibo, but it's still good for quite a lot of people on this forum. From my knowledge instantly dubbing something a scam in public when a lot of people enjoy it / think otherwise going to spark some talk.
