I'll be traveling to Europe over the Winter and would have loved to play this on the planes and trains. Too bad it requires data for all game modes. No use to me.
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'Super Mario Run' Launches on App Store for iPhone and iPad
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Why does this need a constant wi-fi connection?
Just curious. Seems like a daft idea and limits places to play.
Just curious. Seems like a daft idea and limits places to play.
When do I have lots of times for a nonsense mobile game? When I don’t have internet.
The online-only requirement makes no sense for the game.
The online-only requirement makes no sense for the game.
This is what I am afraid of. Will wait a day to buy for everyone else in my Family Sharing to see if others find away around that.
I thought forcing the game to run only when there's online connection was supposed to prevent this exact thing?
I can understand why Nintendo's worried about piracy (Monument Valley for iOS reported a 60% piracy rate for just a $3 game), but this truly makes it a no-go for me. I already have a backlog of video games (including for Wii), so I can wait on this. In fact, we'll add it to AppShopper and snag it if it goes on sale.
What's the point of this? Just charge me $10 right away instead of surprising me.
I'm not sure I'll buy this and I'm a big Nintendo fan. The times when I'd be playing this most when I'm out is when I don't have an internet connection (e.g. on an airplane). If I'm home, there are much better games I'd rather be playing. I also played this at the Apple store and this doesn't change my opinion of smartphone games... they're all gimmicks that don't hold my attention for more than a few minutes.
Weird that you do the intro then it goes into "data download" to pull down huge asset files, yet still requires a persistent internet connection. Ok.
Neat, but at $10 as a frequent flyer, I'm out. Oh well.
Neat, but at $10 as a frequent flyer, I'm out. Oh well.
Bam! I wish they didn't automatically jump over enemies though. That kind of takes away some challenge.
I don't understand the hype. It's just another ****** mobile game? So waht if nintendo made it, they lost their **** 1989
Meh, dumbed down version of an old game. I like to play old NES games every now and then, but I would love it more if Virtual Console came to the Apple TV or iPad along with Bluetooth NES and SNES controllers over this any day.
So much potential and yet Nintendo dabbles in mobile crap like this, but I really can't blame them for all the people rushing out to buy something they will play for 5 minutes and forget about. At the end of the day this is a Flappy Bird rip off, I see through it, not wasting money on it.
So much potential and yet Nintendo dabbles in mobile crap like this, but I really can't blame them for all the people rushing out to buy something they will play for 5 minutes and forget about. At the end of the day this is a Flappy Bird rip off, I see through it, not wasting money on it.
Yeah, because there is no public interest in Mario at all.....
How long has this been in development? The first two things I see:
- A help menu (that I accidentally tapped) where they ask if you want a 'customer service inquiry' - should obviously be 'enquiry'.
- The worse ever country picker that doesn't use the standard iOS rubber banding/momentum, which should be totally unnecessary anyway given the regionality of the App Store.
So can someone explain to me what for is internet connectivity exactly used for in this game. I simply refuse to purchase this game until they drop the always on requirement. This game is useless for me otherwise. When I commute I don't have internet access. When I don't commute then, well, I'm busy.
Then don't get it.
The 60% included legitimate purchasers who installed in on more than one device as they are entitled to do, so is meaningless.