Anyone else sees Nintendo as predatory? - And other large game companies as well

[bocchan]

Haven't seen a recent thread about all the bullfuckery Nintendo has done (maybe because I'm the only one that cares). I respect their craftsmanship, but the business actions they take are questionable at best.

Nintendo recently sent a cease-and-desist to The Big House, organizers of a SSBM tournament. Due to the 'rona, the tournament organizers were forced to move online and use a program called "Slippi", which made it possible to play Melee online. That program is the reason why Nintendo sent a C&D to the tournament organizers in the first place. I don't play Smash games like that nor do I know much about the tournament organizers, but it just seems very unnecessary for Nintendo to shut down operations of a game that's legal to fuck.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/20/21579392/nintendo-big-house-super-smash-bros-melee-tournament-slippi-cease-desist

I guess if you have your two cents on game companies DMCA'ing their fans (or maybe the opposite in which they encourage fanmade content), post below. Also, I'm a newfag, so sorry if I offended the culture of this place by doing sumn dumb or retarded.

 

[Prophetic Spirit]

I'm gonna trying to forget this thread, not only of the bullshit you posted (Nintendo being bullshit with everything isn't new) but the Owl House image profile too.

 

[bocchan]

I'm gonna trying to forget this thread, not only of the bullshit you posted (Nintendo being bullshit with everything isn't new) but the Owl House image profile too.

If they put me at a stake for being an owlfag, then so be it!

 

[Toolbox]

Oh wow, a multi billion dollar tech and software business does predatory things to make money? Please tell me it isn't so.

 

[Marissa Moira]

How can they be predatory when you can make the choice not buy it?

If they put me at a stake for being an owlfag, then so be it!

go back to /trash/.

 

[Hypnopedosnake2]

Melee pedophiles deserve everything that comes to them.

 

[Exigent Circumcisions]

How can they be predatory when you can make the choice not buy it?

Autism isn't a choice.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Melee pedophiles deserve everything that comes to them.

Everything is not enough IMO.

 

[The Last Stand]

You thought Nintendo was your best friend, did you?

 

[Marissa Moira]

You thought Nintendo was your best friend, did you?

I never thought of game companies as my best friend, but the illusion of being a competent company broke for me when they released the gamecube.

 

[Quijibo69]

Nintendo always felt like the Walmart of consoles after the SNES.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Nintendo is predatory because they don't want people raising awareness of emulator programs? Not on my life.

The only predatory thing Nintendo has done recently was Mario Kart Tour and we all know well enough to stay away from that piece of shit.

 

[Pixy]

I am thoroughly convinced that Kirby and its continuing support is proof of Nintendo's pred fetish.

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

They're a family-oriented business with an image to protect.

Their only option is to be Hitler.

 

[wholetthegodsout]

Nintendo has to protect their IPs and brand. What do they have without it?

 

[Toolbox]

Nintendo always felt like the Walmart of consoles after the SNES.

Microsoft's the Walmart of gaming, Sony is Target and Nintendo is Whole Foods, trying to act like they're above the others.

 

[bocchan]

Nintendo has to protect their IPs and brand. What do they have without it?

They're a billion dollar company who shut down a tournament for a game that's not commercially sold anymore. Most pirates and emulators buy legally anyways, so I don't really see what's the big idea.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

I never thought of game companies as my best friend, but the illusion of being a competent company broke for me when they released the gamecube.

Why though wasn't the gamecube good

 

[Jimmy Durante's Ballsack]

and Nintendo is Whole Foods, trying to act like they're above the others.

Yeah but unlike Whole Foods, Nintendo actually is in a league of its own above the competition.

 

[Toolbox]

Yeah but unlike Whole Foods, Nintendo actually is in a league of its own above the competition.

The Switch has proven to me they're no more competent than their competitors in any area other than marketing. While a handheld/home console hybrid is a neat idea, the inflated prices of their controllers since launch, major drifting issues existing on every controller they've manufactured since 2017 and their refusal to acknowledge that, and a lack of any sort of quality moderation for their digital games store is ridiculous. They also removed any personality from their System UI that used to exist and it now basically just looks like mobile Xbox. Plus multiple of their franchises have begun to lose quality and fast.