Just Kill Games.

Nintendo - you have to pay me full price for games that are over 15 years old, no exceptions!

Also Nintendo - Sorry gotta kill this game after 7 years and take your money, we don't plan on supporting this anymore 🖕

It would be cool to still have, but was anyone still playing it? I gave up quickly and out of all my friends that tried it, not one has played it in years.

Also:

Perhaps the lack of an offline version is down to the fact that Mario Kart World is seen as a key driver for the uptake of Switch 2 — and Nintendo would much rather you purchase a console to play that

Who is playing a bad mobile MK game instead of playing a console one? I feel like these two circles in the Venn diagram never overlapped. And if someone really wants that, get a used Switch lite and MK8. A good amount of the tracks were ported over to that game with better graphics, performance and no online requirements.

Who is playing a bad mobile MK game instead of playing a console one

I was. The mobile game is totally different from the console, but that doesn't mean it was bad.

To their credit, the game used to be quite playable even for non-subscribers and now that they are shutting it down, they stopped charging and are giving all benefits to everyone.

so weird to me that they don't offer a paid, offline version like they did with animal crossing pocket camp...

Does it matter? It starts with the mobile games, but that's how these big publishers boil the frog. Always gotta start with low heat and ramp it up slowly until-

Oops, no more disk drives! Don't like it? Too bad! Buy our new product!

Strange they’re not offering an offline mode. They already have AI implemented for single player mode.

It was surprising that Nintendo even tried mobile games, their consoles have always been their thing

I don't think this is at all "to their credit". It will still get shutdown, who cares if everyone can play it for free until then? It will be gone for good unless someone hacks/copies/pirates the server.

Every company is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, genuinely wanting to determine how many will be allowed to be consumed without resistance.

They spent years feigning to cater to customers whims, now their big bets on acting shitty and cruel and see if it’s profitable.

In the best-case scenario, they believe they can treat their customers like Ike treated Tina Turner and still reap the benefits.

Not everyone has a nintendo console or knows how to emulate

I played the game years ago.

It's a gambling simulator where you pretend to drive but the final result is almost already predetermined according to how much time/money you spent on gear. Maybe you can get 1-3 positions higher than expected by timing the activation of power ups at the right time, or manually drifting, but the kart drives automatically, for the first levels you can even win without input.

The most exciting part of the game is shooting the firework from the pipe to open the loot box.

Once you take out the loot box system and you take out the pay to win subscription and you unlock all the gear, then where is the "fun" in the "game"? There's no single player mode to preserve.

This game could totally have on offline mode with little to no extra effort but I guess you have to kill everything that isn't profitable

Yeah, I went from being kind of excited to be able to play some Mario Kart on my phone (with a bit of hope that maybe quality games will come to phones after-all), to being completely disinterested in about 3 minutes.

Seriously, when Mega Man X Dive Offline became a thing I was sure that would become the norm for these types of games.

And ps: IMHO the "online racing" part is simulated and it didn't wasn't real multiplayer. I played "online" on a severely throttled WiFi connection (so slow that is unusable) and it didn't bat an eye. It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the "race".

I forgot to explain why they can't just leave it alone and just continue milking whales their subscription/coin purchases: every 3-4 weeks they change the courses with new "events" and SURPRISE! Your expensive gear now here is useless. You grinded for days and/or spent $1000s to have level 8 "beach costume Luigi" that requires to literally find ONE HUNDRED duplicates in the loot boxes? Sorry, those new courses unlock the max points multiplier only with the new "Pizza baking Luigi costume", go back to level 0 and climb the ladder again with the loot boxes, thanks for playing. Ah and the "Pizza baking Luigi costume" is a limited event, please find all the 100 duplicates in the loot boxes before the end of this month, or you will be never be able to level it again, thanks.

So Nintendo needs to pay a couple employees to think and create the new monthly events with all the new gear, takes a lot of effort, that's why they can't just abandon it and continue to just rake in the money from whales

The better the gear you have, the harder your opponents will be. What changes with how much you pay is how many points you get.

Points determine how many stars you get per race, but clearing up all stars in the tour is easy. The only part where the score really matters is on the weekly ranked Cups (the sets of 3 races) which groups 20 players and the top 3 best scorers get promoted to a higher level and 5-20 get sent one level down. There is also a "friends ranking" which doesn't give any prize but it's a nice way to get some friendly competition between your friends.

WIthout the ranked races (which requires a server to keep the leaderboard), there is no fun in offline mode.

Thats not a reason to leave it in a similar state to every previous Mario Kart game

The maps are apparantly already in MK8

All but one

good i didnt play that unityslop

All those Nintendo fans should take note. They aren't better than Sony.

Keep Killing Games.

It just downloads a list of usernames to pretend the computer-driven karts are real players, then uploads the lap times for ranking after the “race”.

Wow, holy shit.

Imagine somebody playing Overwatch or CS:GO and they made a bunch of bots pretend that they are real players. Fans would skewer them from day one.

worse?