Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
Look at all these people who are bad at video gamesI thought that at first, until I hit a match where 3 guys on my team had the roller and nobody on their team did and they mopped the floor with us. I had figured there were ways to overcome the paint roller, but not like that. Great game design might I suggest you not assume that all rollers is the best way to go
It's nowhere near that easy.
Then you're going to have to enlighten me because I don't see how it isn't that easy. Yes there are many parts and yes it's taking people time, but that's why you get more manufacturing companies to help so that you at least come close to meeting demand. In the mean time the stretch out time between waves so that you can make more copies of each one.
First, you probably shouldn't say snippy things like "please enlighten me", then two posts later tell people not to talk down to you.
It's not as easy to just "find a manufacturing facility" (or two). You have to find one that's set up to actually manufacture something in the same line of what you're making. Then, you have to book it in advance. Like, many months (sometimes, over a year) in advance. Depending on what you need, special equipment (or special modifications to existing equipment) may be required. And we're dealing with RFID toys - something fairly new in the world of toys. All kinds of government compliance checks are required. These deals and details are all planned out far in advance. In the cases of some characters (namely, third party characters - but even secondary characters - for example, did you know that Nintendo doesn't own the rights to license Kirby?), the contracts were probably signed long enough ago that clearly specified how many figures could be manufactured and when they could be sold. Then, even after they're manufactured, it's generally six-to-twelve weeks from factory to warehouse for Chinese goods shipped via cargo ship to US.
Nintendo could throw all this money at putting all of this together and by time the first restocks are on the shelves, folks could have moved on to something new/different/exciting. Marth first went on sold in November (and sold out almost immediately). It's half a year later and we still don't have the restocks on US shelves yet (and that's without trying to rig up additional factories).
On top of this, Nintendo is tied to retailer orders. Nintendo signed agreements (possibly a year or longer) with retailers to say "In May, we will ship you X amount of Y figure." - now, for something like the port strike, I'm sure there's language in the contract that gives them some leeway. But I doubt there's much wiggle-room for "Yeah, we'd rather make more Little Macs this month than the new ones we promised you."
Nintendo grossly underestimated demand of these figures to begin with - and that is their initial downfall. They need to do everything reasonable in their power to get things fixed as soon as possible. I don't know what that is, but I do know it's a whole lot more than just finding another factory or two.
I feel like they've already said something similar... several times.Yes they have and with no improvement.
There's such a thing as too much supply here. Retailers don't want tons of these sitting on store shelves, and Nintendo is producing them with that in mind.Sure there's such a thing as too much supply, but we're VERY FAR from that right now.
Don't act so high and mighty. I actually know a lot about economics and if you had read my post I never said doing this would make Nintendo more money. I said they could fulfill demand. You see they've made games where content is hidden behind a plastic figure (see codename steam, & captain toad) and now since we can't find the figures we can't use that part of the game. It's frustrating I really want to use Amiibo on codename steam, but since they announced that fire emblem characters are playable on the game IF you have the Amiibo I haven't been able to find a single one. I'm still 0-4. I'm ticked and it and I have only Nintendo to blame as they could have made more of them and they chose not to several times (the first time is absolutely understandable but they have no excuse for the other times)In this day and age it's not that stinking hard. All you have to do is find a second manufacturing facility and a third manufacturing facility and have all 3 of them producing at full capacity. Suddenly you're pumping out three times as many and maybe I can actually find the fire emblem characters in a store so that I can use them on Codename: Steam.
It's nowhere near that easy.
Then you're going to have to enlighten me because I don't see how it isn't that easy. Yes there are many parts and yes it's taking people time, but that's why you get more manufacturing companies to help so that you at least come close to meeting demand. In the mean time the stretch out time between waves so that you can make more copies of each one.
Many people believe the mistaken idea that the more items you manufacture, the more money you will earn. This turns out to be false even for simplistic mathematical models. Real life has many variables and factors that must be "factored into the equation" so to speak. There is a considerable amount of mathematics involved in economics. If you don't believe me check out this link to see how much of it is understandable. [size=78%]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_economics[/size]
In this day and age it's not that stinking hard. All you have to do is find a second manufacturing facility and a third manufacturing facility and have all 3 of them producing at full capacity. Suddenly you're pumping out three times as many and maybe I can actually find the fire emblem characters in a store so that I can use them on Codename: Steam.
It's nowhere near that easy.
OK you 2 in an attempt to continue enjoying this game so either of you have any tips for this poison floor boss I'm sure I'll be there soon
Honestly don't know how to guide you through Poison Floor Boss 'L' ('L' being the first letter of the boss' name). It has been too long and I felt that I was still over-leveled during that fight (It was so perfunctory that I didn't notice the poison floor until after the battle). So, maybe some grinding?
I was playing Melia for the majority of the end game as she does amazing damage in the hands of the player (the computer very not so much). If you're having a tough time in bosses, I would suggest changing characters to be more focused on killing rather than survival. If you haven't already, try benching Sharla for characters with light healing such as Shulk, Riki, and Melia. Then try stacking offensive characters such as Dunban, Shulk, Melia, and possibly SEVENTH. You might discover being able to kill faster is the path to success.
I do recommend to trying out Melia. Her auras and elementals are unique and bewildering, but do massive amounts of damage when learned. Key points are that you discharge your last summoned elemental and the lightning/thunder elemental is the one that hits like a truck.
Good show! Hope there will be only good news to talk about come one week from now.Where are these super frustrating parts of Xenoblade Chronicles that everyone keeps talking about?
Near the end of the game, the difficulty spikes up on the bosses. Of note is one where the game introduces poisonous floors along side a boss that hits hard. As a player who did much of the side content and was over-leveled for much of the game, even I noticed the spike in difficulty at the end of the main story.
Focusing more on the middle, there are a major points of story telling that could be a drag for some players. The first notable one for me are the events upon reaching the Bionis' head. Others include Sword Valley and what happens after. I can imagine these points being exhausting and restricting for some players.
D'awww. Always enjoy your kind words, Enner.
And yup. Poison floor boss is so bad that I might have quit the game had I not been reviewing it.
I'm eager to play this game after the demo (which I loved, even though it was easy), but part of me wants to wait and see if they'll issue a patch to speed up or let you skip the enemy turns, at least on New 3DS -- if it is indeed a processing limitation.I thought I heard you hold down select to speed up the enemy turns
I played the first few chapters of the demo, and aside from the reinforcements and having to get used to the controls the biggest issue was the camera. I'm left-handed, and the face buttons don't offer the same kind of movement the touchscreen controls gave me. I kept fumbling around and taking unnecessary damage because I couldn't react in time to some enemies. So this means having to invest on a N3DSXL or a CPP and those aren't high on my priority list right now.
