Actually the pieces are junk. I unlocked them and it only has three ability upgrades where's the gear I'm using now has up to four in total. Sure the outfits look cool but they are not that great later on.

Their are also only a few weapon scrolls that you get. One from each Amiibo. Also the weapons only matter if your actually planning on using those particular weapons. The only thing about the weapons that are different is the sub and special not the actual stats themselves. Last but not least you can unlock little mini games while waiting for your matches to start/play at the hub world. Once again not that big of a deal.

From what I have seen a lot of people prefer what Nintendo has done with the Splatoon Amiibo. The author of the article is just trying to find problems with Splatoon/Amiibo/Nintendo.

That was actually funny : "I don't care much for Amiibo, I only have four" that is just to say how successfull Nintendo are with these little toys.

I'm basically like you, don't care much fore these and yet I got three (Kirby, Link and Luigi). Two of them are gifts, yet I like to have them, and I expect to get some of the splatoon amiibos if they get cheaper some day - which is why I kinda agree with this article, it's gone too far to pay 25/30€ for a single one, shouldn't exceed 10€/15€ to my eyes

Except these "microtransactions" from Amiibo do not impede progress, which is the biggest reason why people hate MT's to begin with.
"Oh, you want this item to refill a resource you need to continue playing more quickly, and you don't want to wait 24 hours to let it replenish on its own?
Ok, 5 gold coins!
What's that? You don't have them?
Well, that's ok!
You can buy them for real money! A buck a coin, it's a steal!"

Amiibos aren't the same as microtransactions.
They don't impede progress and in many cases they aren't even needed.
They're there for little extras, not for needed content, and what's more they work across multiple games instead of just one, so you never really need to buy multiples of a character to take advantage of them across multiple games.

The biggest issue with Splatoon isn't Amiibo.
It's the number of stages within each 4 hour rotation, and no way of using voice chat in friend matches. (public matches would become cess pits if it were in those, though)

Really, this game's problem is content, period. There just isn't enough included, and it's clear that Nintendo released the game before it was finished. They're desperate for revenue, so they came up with the sleazy approach of releasing an unfinished game, then saying that "free content" would be coming out later. Plus they set a ludicrous price ($60 MSRP) for a game with a meager amount of content. This game really should have cost around $20, for the tiny amount of content included.

As usual with Nintendo, it's all about that greed; any way that they can fleece their loyal fans, and get some money coming in, they'll try it.

Look at the anemic specs and outright missing features in the Wii U; same story. Deliver the very cheapest possible hardware, keeping manufacturing costs to a bare minimum, to keep their profits high. That's all Nintendo has been known for, in over a decade of gaming hardware releases. Hard to believe that anyone falls for these kinds of scams anymore, but I guess there will always be a small core of diehard fans that must have more Mario games, at all costs. Very sad.

Not just full price, but $80 when last gen it was $60… and $70… which, don’t get me started on that.