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Which game series had the worst anniversary celebration? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world
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Rockstar didn't even acknowledge GTA IV's tenth anniversary. Only by removing several songs from its radio stations.

Sega celebrate the 15th anniversary of Sonic by releasing Sonic 06.

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[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo released Super Mario All Stars for the Wii. It was just an emulation of the SNES game from years before. It was released for $30 even though you could buy all of the original games on the Wii shop for like $21 total. It just reeked of "We know you've already bought these games like 4 times, but please buy them again". They did do a better job on the 35th anniversary though.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 39 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They did do a better job on the 35th anniversary though.

No, they didn't.

For the 35th anniversary, they did all this.

  • They removed Mario 3D All Stars from the eShop and stopped selling it in stores to get FOMO sales so people would care less that it was a lazy overpriced cash grab collection.
  • They removed Super Mario Bros. 35 from the eShop and shut down the servers, making it completely unplayable.
  • They removed the ability to upload levels in Super Mario Maker 1.
[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

The way how Nintendo has a complete inability to understand modern, usually online, entertainment services, is truly an achievement. Just creating an NNID for your console is already a colossal pain in the ass, but it doesn't begin or stop there. The way how fairly modern games got their entire service lineup completely shutdown is just unacceptable

[–] Zarxrax@lemmy.world -1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well I mean, they also ADDED Super Mario Bros 35 to the eShop, for free. You can't just mention the removal as if it had always been there. I agree it was shitty for them to remove it though, it was one of my all time favorite games. But I'm at least happy that I got to play it.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

You paid a subscription for it. It wasn't free. Just like any other online game, there's no reason it has to die.

[–] JowlesMcGee@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

Is the 35th anniversary the release of 64, Sunshine, and Galaxy on the Switch? I'd say the artificial scarcity aspect to induce fomo wasn't any better. It might have even been worse.