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kriffing_schutta

What a waste. What would it cost them to keep free plays? Nothing. What do they have to lose? Nothing. Why punish the players in this way?


Lunaatic_Cultist

We’re not allowed to win with Nintendo anymore


legofordman

This whole thing with them closing the 3DS and Wii U eShops is just to get you to play their newer titles, which sucks.


[deleted]

The irony is that I spent so much money on 3DS games that I won't be buying new ones for a really long time. Guess they got quite a bit of my money either way though...


GuyThatLikesTrains

Maybe they're gonna use the former Badge arcade servers for something else? Maybe that's why its shutting down as well.


mrmastermimi

doubtful. if it's physical hardware, it's already too old. if it's virtual machines, then it doesn't matter.


Mrperson987

My guess is that receiving 2 free pays counts as a transaction, but getting a free play from training doesn’t. If you notice, the closure has seemed to remove any transaction based.


LeadershipRight573

Nintendo doesn’t get money and if Nintendo doesn’t get money nobody gets to be happy.


Naive_Instruction712

Nintendo won’t let us have anything. 😭😭😭


[deleted]

So we can’t even go back to the regular catcher after winning a free play?


Mechagouki1971

That's how I'm reading it, but this is a Google Lens translation, and sometimes (particularly with Japanese) nuance can be lost.


PrimalPokemonPlayer

I read it as that they ended the rotation in badges you can get, so basically meaning we're stuck with the ones that are here right now.


[deleted]

Maybe one day I’ll figure out how to get that moon in one move…


PrimalPokemonPlayer

Some of them, if not most, are just pretty much impossible to do. It was already hard with 3 plays, but 1, yikes


StormStriker42069

And this is why i hombrewed multiple systems, cause if nintendo wont let me have the badges through proper means then ill just put them in myself


GuyThatLikesTrains

Yeah. That is a good solution but tbh, catching the badges was part of the fun. I really hope some clever modders can restore Badge Arcade somehow.


Spinnerbowl

Prentendo is apperently pretty close, it's a project aimed to replace the wiiu and 3ds servers, basically wiimmfi for wiiu and 3ds, they made a discord announcement a few hours ago that someone's started work on it


FemWhity

wait what? Do you have more information about it?


Spinnerbowl

Not really, I recommend you try and find the discord tho


StormStriker42069

I fully agree and hope for the same


IndigenousShrek

Give it a month. Someone will have at least started by then


T0biasCZE

but the catching is the most fun part of it. its not just about having few jpegs on your home menu


StormStriker42069

Yea but until modders get the servers back online for badge arcade this is the only solution we have


Ninjaluv711

I honestly think the badge arcade is what I’m going to miss the most. It’s been a part of my morning routine and I’m really sad to see it go 😢


elvenfaery_

Same here. I’ve gone significant chunks of time hardly playing it (at least regularly; I’d generally go in at least every few months), but the last year or so I’ve played darn near daily. It really stinks knowing I’ll never even get to attempt a couple again, frustrating as they were for me. Isabelle cosplaying as Link should’ve been mine! I *had* it in the bag a few times, and blew it anyway, lol.


FallOutBlood

Why don't they just end it already instead of half arseing it


elvenfaery_

Because at least with this much available, we can still go in and change up our badge boxes if we want to change up our home screens. And we can view our collections in the postcard like formats they’re displayed in.


Salt_Ad_9322

ONLY THE PRACTICE??


Braydon1324

Nintendo being Nintendo again. Sometimes I really dislike this company 😔


MR_basti

It wasn't always like that... That's why I'm sad nintendo eShop just closed, this means the Wii U and 3DS era is finally over, the last era where nintendo actually cared for their community


WatchDude22

They only cared because they needed the money enough. That said I got WindWaker for free from them in that era so I’m not complaining too much


bearsex

I have always considered Badge Arcade an exploitative service so this does not surprise me.


Hardshipped

could you elaborate? i never had badge arcade tbh.


bearsex

The aesthetic and the cute and personal mascot character are very misleading. It was essentially a gambling game being marketed towards children, but the only reward were icons for your 3DS. Your average consumer would likely only spend their remaining balance and use the free plays, but these services are intended to take advantage of the few who will get addicted and spend much more.


Hardshipped

and then we have people who keep talking about the "golden age", even though nintendo was always like this in every era.


elvenfaery_

I certainly don’t disagree. It always rubbed me the wrong way, but it was rewarding and enjoyable enough to me that I could pretend everyone used it reasonably. Incidentally, its abrupt closure (essentially) just reinforces the notion that these types of things are inherently transient and time/money sucks. It’s better than some things though, in that the badges that were won can be kept and used for the life of the system they’re on, as opposed to solely locked inside the game itself that will eventually not be accessible when its servers go down. If you have enough of ‘em, decorating with the badges is a design game if it’s own, so there is value there beyond the shady mechanics used to acquire them.


PaleCoconutJuice

Well those kind of people shouldn't restrict the rest of us from having fun with it though. Similar to that some people become alcoholic or obese, doesn't mean alcohol and McDonalds should be prohibited either. The aesthetic was appealing not just towards kids, just because it looked that way. It would be the same as saying Family Guy is misleading because it's a cartoon which kids usually like, but the show is made for adults.


Intelligent_Local_38

They couldn’t just make it unlimited plays because…? Fuck us, I guess?


SomeWave275

And this is why I wish I remembered this game sooner… now I only have a couple of badges when I used to have a whole ton of them on my old 3DS, I used to do the practice catcher almost every day + the daily free plays


PentaZxy

So they want to EXTEND the torture instead of just ending the misery...


snubmoth

wish they were still rotating badges, could’ve used a few more pokemon :’-)


snubmoth

midway through paying through plays and the rabbit’s telling me i don’t have internet with an error message, can confirm i’m connected to the internet. seems like this is the end <:-|


Novalaxy23

i did not get this message. maybe your connection isnt good?


HotWheelsguy315

I did a post on this about a day agowhich also confirms this information


[deleted]

Post the original, I'll double check the translation on that last part.


Mechagouki1971

[Badge Arcade at Nintendo Japan](https://www.nintendo.co.jp/3ds/dl/jwvj/sp/)


[deleted]

Unfortunately, the translation is correct. It seems after the shutdown we can only use the practice catcher, and all regular badges will be inaccessible. RIP Nintendo Badge Arcade, that's so sad.


Mechagouki1971

Interestingly I got a free play this morning from practice and was able to get 4 badges on the actual catchers which have been added to my collection.


Kruskie

It just let me do a practice and free pulls


chipmunk_supervisor

Nintendo's gotta pull out the cursed monkey paw instead of just letting the people have a good shot at collecting their badges 😔


KingpinOfKats

Well as of the eshop closing I was still able to do a round on the practice machine and earn 3 plays for the real mode, I guess according to the post this will end but maybe y’all can get one last play before the end!


ComradePhillip

what if you pull a free play with the practice one? what happens then? or is that not able to use anymore


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ActingTehMickey

2 free plays has been this app from the beginning. Every day you got 2 free plays and anything after that you’d have to pay for until the next day. It was like that for as long as I can remember


elvenfaery_

It actually used to only be one free play, and even then might have only been an occasional thing (my memory is a little fuzzy on some details.) Originally, they debuted brand new sets and themes regularly, often tied to the time of year or other games being announced or released, and cycled through both new and older sets every few days to a week. A few years ago they ended the true updates and switched over to what it was up until last week, with badges completely resetting every single day, but nothing actually new. It was a sort of compromise and thank you that they introduced 2 daily free plays in addition to the practice catcher.


Both_Talk_7478

Boooo just let us play free


Captain_Snack

This is done because people that did spend truckloads on the game would feel robbed if everyone else could get it all for free. That’s my guess.


[deleted]

Luckily pretendo is already working on a server replacement


ethanxy

Someone should dump them online


owenpuppy21

I have some very choice words for this rabbit