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Mario Kart World Faces Massive Backlash After Update, Online Racing Experience Ruined

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      Nintendo must just hate consumers at this point. Why else would they do all this b.s.

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        Not a great article. Lots of leaning on emotions with little to actually say.

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          I must say, even though I don't play much online, the lack of a traditional 3 lap grand prix is annoying.

          The roads between circuits are not so great a concept that they had to force it on every mode. Especially since a lot of them are very same-y, with only a couple rather cool areas. I was not a big fan of linear tracks that have appeared since 7, but 2 "laps" of random highway for only 1 lap on the actual circuit is worse.

          For that reason and a couple others, I still think 8 is the better game.

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            Nintendo must just hate consumers at this point. Why else would they do all this b.s.

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            Dude shut the fuck up and go back to your shitty PC

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              Nintendo Stays Silent

              Why would they say anything? We knew it would be a shitshow and people still bought it.

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                I must say, even though I don't play much online, the lack of a traditional 3 lap grand prix is annoying.

                The roads between circuits are not so great a concept that they had to force it on every mode. Especially since a lot of them are very same-y, with only a couple rather cool areas. I was not a big fan of linear tracks that have appeared since 7, but 2 "laps" of random highway for only 1 lap on the actual circuit is worse.

                For that reason and a couple others, I still think 8 is the better game.

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                I have only played one grand prix (and that too locally), so I can't say if World or 8 is better, but DK Spaceport is probably one of the most interesting track I have played.

                I have only played it once though, so am not sure if it was the nostalgia hit or if the track is actually good but its still pretty unique.

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                  Not a great article. Lots of leaning on emotions with little to actually say.

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                  The whole part about no review bombing on Steam made no sense

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                    I have only played one grand prix (and that too locally), so I can't say if World or 8 is better, but DK Spaceport is probably one of the most interesting track I have played.

                    I have only played it once though, so am not sure if it was the nostalgia hit or if the track is actually good but its still pretty unique.

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                    I agree this one is great. But there's another problem with World : it's one of the 3 tracks or so that are actually new. Almost everything else is an old track they remastered a bit. It's not badly done, but it feels stale.

                    Base game 8 already had a lot of fully new, very good tracks. And 8's DLC had some of the best ever, including a few cool crossover circuits.

                    Even World's music feels like they went exclusively for nostalgia. There is a lot of it, but every piece of music except this episode's main theme is a remix of a previous Mario Kart or Mario game.

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                      The whole part about no review bombing on Steam made no sense

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                      The entire site looks to be slop.

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                        This controversy is pretty much "You're having fun in a different way from what we intended. This is not allowed so we blocked it.".

                        Which is a very "Nintendo" thing to do. But hopefully they'll change things in the future and give a "classic" option or something similar.

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                          The whole part about no review bombing on Steam made no sense

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                          The article reads like it was put together by an LLM then edited (poorly) by a person.

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                            I must say, even though I don't play much online, the lack of a traditional 3 lap grand prix is annoying.

                            The roads between circuits are not so great a concept that they had to force it on every mode. Especially since a lot of them are very same-y, with only a couple rather cool areas. I was not a big fan of linear tracks that have appeared since 7, but 2 "laps" of random highway for only 1 lap on the actual circuit is worse.

                            For that reason and a couple others, I still think 8 is the better game.

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                            3 lap racing local co-op mode to unlock tracks and bonus content was the bread and butter for me. So few games have a co-op campaign. I also enjoyed local battle modes as well. They never updated battle mode once in MK8.

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                              I must say, even though I don't play much online, the lack of a traditional 3 lap grand prix is annoying.

                              The roads between circuits are not so great a concept that they had to force it on every mode. Especially since a lot of them are very same-y, with only a couple rather cool areas. I was not a big fan of linear tracks that have appeared since 7, but 2 "laps" of random highway for only 1 lap on the actual circuit is worse.

                              For that reason and a couple others, I still think 8 is the better game.

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                              Agreed. I’m pretty much completely over World at this point and only play if my kid asks me to. I think it’s technically impressive and gorgeous to look at, but the tracks are so utterly boring I have little motivation to fire it up.

                              I’m still salty about the lack of local multiplayer free roam too, but that’s another issue entirely.

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                                The article reads like it was put together by an LLM then edited (poorly) by a person.

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                                Wait a second, you mean "gamersplan.com" isn't a reputable, well-researched paragon of journalistic integrity? I'm shocked.

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                                  This controversy is pretty much "You're having fun in a different way from what we intended. This is not allowed so we blocked it.".

                                  Which is a very "Nintendo" thing to do. But hopefully they'll change things in the future and give a "classic" option or something similar.

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                                  From a gamedev perspective it wouldn't make sense to call what was happening "classic". It was unintended behavior.

                                  What would make more sense would be to make a setting to allow or disable the intermission sections of the race (they'd need to think of another name for them though because they call the wait time between races intermissions in the settings already). Allow players to keep or remove the long stretches.

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                                    From a gamedev perspective it wouldn't make sense to call what was happening "classic". It was unintended behavior.

                                    What would make more sense would be to make a setting to allow or disable the intermission sections of the race (they'd need to think of another name for them though because they call the wait time between races intermissions in the settings already). Allow players to keep or remove the long stretches.

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                                    What I meant by "classic" is an "official" option to stick to 3-lap tracks, which apparently have a lot of fans.

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                                      Nintendo must just hate consumers at this point. Why else would they do all this b.s.

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                                      Nintendo makes things for a very specific market and any spillover internationally is just a bonus. To be fair, that has worked out for them for decades now.

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                                        Agreed. I’m pretty much completely over World at this point and only play if my kid asks me to. I think it’s technically impressive and gorgeous to look at, but the tracks are so utterly boring I have little motivation to fire it up.

                                        I’m still salty about the lack of local multiplayer free roam too, but that’s another issue entirely.

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                                        I hadn't even thought of local coop free roam, but yeah, that would be fun too.

                                        What I had thought though was why the hell don't we meet random online people messing around, in that mode that's basically just about messing around? Anything to make it feel less empty and boring.

                                        I mean come on, they did random online coop in the latest actual main Mario game!

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                                          Nintendo Stays Silent

                                          Why would they say anything? We knew it would be a shitshow and people still bought it.

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                                          We knew it would be a shitshow

                                          We who? And how did you know?

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