The subscription to the Gold Pass of Mario Kart Tour is the Greedside chess train from Nintendo

It is no secret that Nintendo was overwhelmed by the gains of some of his recent mobile phone titles. While Fire Emblem: Heroes and Dragalia Lost cost the money was Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Dr. Mario World in the eyes of Nintendo's executives a relative failure. They have not only limited themselves to switching their estimated franchise companies to mobile devices, but they do not deserve the money they had expected.

I suppose it's expected that the Mario Kart Tour will bring things a little at the front, but that's not what I wanted. Mario Kart Tour offers a gold-animal subscription, with which players can play and pay after a few cell phone games like Dota Underlords. At least that's the hope.

In the execution, however, the subscription plan of Mario Kart Tour acts like the exact opposite of the value we have seen from people like Super Mario Run. While this was a premium game offered a premium experience, this is a free of playable title, and it is questionable whether it offers a free game value at this time.

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The Mario Kart Tour Gold Pass offers fairly a two-week free trial, then it is 4.99 GBP per month. With the Gold Pass, you can expect more premium currency and gold bonuses, including more drivers, karts, gliders and more.

Honestly, I have nothing against the subscription model for live service games as long as it has a fair price and offers added value from the point of view of the consumer. If you sit down every night for several games by Dota Underlords or play regularly, I would not blame you if you subscribe to their services or buy a Battle Pass.

In my view, there are two main problems with the subscription offer from Mario Kart Tour, and the first is that this is already a Gacha game.

You must already earn and spend premium currency in this game to get more karts, drivers and gliders, and of course there are extremely excessive microtransception purchases available in business - more than a complete, much better copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe would throw you back.

This is a game that already has a typical monetization for mobile devices, and wants the players to subscribe to a recurrent monthly payment? Honestly, I am simply absurd before.

Then we return to the subscription itself. As long as the consumer offers added value, I can not argue. But £ 4.99 every month? This week, in which Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass were introduced at the same price and were offered by much more content?

It is simply unfathomable. At the moment there are never so many great games for such low buy-in price in the mobile area. Nintendo, however, decides to contradict again and start a subscription at the same price, which is far more disappointing content. I'm still shocked.

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It's not that Mario Kart Tour is a bad game. Personally, I am pleasantly surprised how much of Mario Karts nuclear experience was expertly adapted for mobile devices. Drifting, turbo and complete tracks that you remember from the main game are all here.

But that does not really distract the monetization, but makes it even more monstrous. Many of us are well adapted to the Nintendo game, including the Mario Karteneme series, and if you change from Mario Kart 8 Deluxe to Mario Kart Tour, the difference is obvious.

Even if you ignore the premium currency you want to buy for the game, you will receive 60 GBP for a single year. You can also buy an AAA game for the full price for this price or subscribe to Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass for the year.

It's just crazy for me that Mario Kart Tour demands so much from his players and apparently offers as little consideration. Nintendo had possibly disappointing profits with cellphone games in the past, but that? That feels just criminal, frankly.

For the longest time, it seemed as if Nintendo were the last cornerstones of the true value and the quality of all titles, but I think it's time to do this with the latest issue on mobile devices. While Nintendo's core business with consoles and associated games is still excellent quality, your mobile titles will not get a hype from me in the future.