I mean, I could fill up this blog post with nothing but these gifs, because I'm literally at a loss of words here. (sorry, trying to curtail my improper usage of literally) But... HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? How does a microtransaction riddled mess of a mobile game like Mario Kart Tour trump a legendary and faithfully remastered kart racer like Crash Team Racing? I mean, Mario Kart Tour isn't even a fleshed out game! I'm not going to go into detail about why I don't think Mario Kart Tour is a good game. You can read my thoughts on it here.
Somebody's palm got greased at the DICE awards. That's the only thing I can think of. There's not a single rational person in the world that would dare give this... thing... Racing Game of the Year without being incentivized. It's no where in the same league as CTR. It's so far out of its league, it would need 100 Hubble telescopes perfectly aligned at their maximum distances to even see a glimpse of the galaxy that Crash Team Racing is a part of.
This is just one of the many, the plethora,the litany of offenses that have occurred during this generation of gaming that makes me feel this is the worst. The continuous onslaught of microtransactions and DLC, the lack of support of Xbox One, the boldface lies that from one Blizzard CEO's mouth, battle royale being shoehorned into every multiplayer game... and the ruination of beloved Nintendo franchises thanks to mobile games.
And since I'm talking about Nintendo mobile games, let me say that after three years of playing Fire Emblem Heroes, I finally quit due to the FEH Pass. I mean, I get that these free mobile games need to make money somehow, but weren't they already making millions from a small group of whales? Apparently, that wasn't enough. If the FEH Pass was just for a few exclusives characters and whatnot, I probably wouldn't have minded, but when I read that subscribers get a +2 bonus to all their stats, that's where I drew the line. Now, it became pay to win more than ever. I will not stand for it.
And people who already dump hundreds and thousands of dollars a month on orbs are now expected to pay 120 dollars a year to keep all the new perks.. it's just insulting. I don't get it. Why can't people say no to this shit? No one wants to spend a flat 10 dollars on Super Mario Run, but will spend 120 a year on a FEH Pass, 60 dollars a year on MKT's Gold Pass and 120 dollars a year on AC:PC subs?
I guess it would be easy to blame the publishers for making this the worst generation of gaming, but the blame doesn't entirely fall on them. It falls on the consumers who fall into these traps as well. You could try to argue with me about how companies spend millions of dollars on psychological research to manipulate people out of their hard-earned money, but everyone can say no. You CHOOSE to buy shit. You KNOW you buy shit. So yeah, if you buy into these shitty mobile games, you're part of the problem as well, and so is DICE for even putting Mario Kart Tour up for Racing Game of the Year.
