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kane_magus) wrote2024-10-09 02:37 pm
kane_magus) wrote2024-10-09 02:37 pm
"Nintendo is shedding its veneer of kindness and embracing a new reputation: Vigorous legal bully"
"Nintendo is speedrunning the Disney playbook. We all know where that goes."
If, by "is speedrunning," one means "has been, for the past 20-30 years or so, slowly following," then sure. As is pointed out in several of the comments under the article, and which is pretty clear to anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention over the past three decades or so, Nintendo's aggressively litigious nature is nothing new.
As far as "passion projects" or "fan games" that specifically use Mario or Link or Samus or Kirby or any Pokemon or whatever go, well... Yeah, if you've got a Youtube channel or Twitter account (or whatever the kids are using these days after Twitter died and became 卐 I mean X) and you're actively publicizing your thing, or, worse, you've got a publicly available Kickstarter or Patreon or SubscribeStar page or something, directly making money off of the thing (not that not making money off the thing will save you), then that's just begging to get C&D'd at best or outright sued at worst, and I can't truthfully say I have any sympathy for you in that case, either. If I have heard about your thing (and, more likely these days, even if I haven't heard about your thing), then you can be damn sure Nintendo has heard about your thing, too, and their lawyer-ninjas are probably sharpening their swords and donning the black pajamas already.
And I'm just like whatever. If Nintendo wants to continue to chip away at and tarnish their own reputation with this shit, that's entirely their prerogative. They obviously don't care about that, or they wouldn't be doing the shit in the first place. In the vast majority of these cases, what they're doing is not "protecting" anything. The only effect it's having is to make people hate Nintendo more and more. And Nintendo seems to be fine with that. Go figure.
As for me, personally, I haven't (legitimately) played a Nintendo game in over 10 years now, and I doubt that'll be changing any time soon, though that's less an issue with Nintendo and its excessive lawsuits, in particular, and more just that I haven't been much interested in any consoles lately, Nintendo or otherwise. That said, if I ever did get back into consoles again, I'd probably start with the Switch/Switch 2, if only to be able to play the Zelda and Metroid games that have come out on those, none of which I've touched yet (legitimately or otherwise). I'm in no great hurry to do so, though.
If, by "is speedrunning," one means "has been, for the past 20-30 years or so, slowly following," then sure. As is pointed out in several of the comments under the article, and which is pretty clear to anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention over the past three decades or so, Nintendo's aggressively litigious nature is nothing new.
As far as "passion projects" or "fan games" that specifically use Mario or Link or Samus or Kirby or any Pokemon or whatever go, well... Yeah, if you've got a Youtube channel or Twitter account (or whatever the kids are using these days after Twitter died and became 卐 I mean X) and you're actively publicizing your thing, or, worse, you've got a publicly available Kickstarter or Patreon or SubscribeStar page or something, directly making money off of the thing (not that not making money off the thing will save you), then that's just begging to get C&D'd at best or outright sued at worst, and I can't truthfully say I have any sympathy for you in that case, either. If I have heard about your thing (and, more likely these days, even if I haven't heard about your thing), then you can be damn sure Nintendo has heard about your thing, too, and their lawyer-ninjas are probably sharpening their swords and donning the black pajamas already.
And I'm just like whatever. If Nintendo wants to continue to chip away at and tarnish their own reputation with this shit, that's entirely their prerogative. They obviously don't care about that, or they wouldn't be doing the shit in the first place. In the vast majority of these cases, what they're doing is not "protecting" anything. The only effect it's having is to make people hate Nintendo more and more. And Nintendo seems to be fine with that. Go figure.
As for me, personally, I haven't (legitimately) played a Nintendo game in over 10 years now, and I doubt that'll be changing any time soon, though that's less an issue with Nintendo and its excessive lawsuits, in particular, and more just that I haven't been much interested in any consoles lately, Nintendo or otherwise. That said, if I ever did get back into consoles again, I'd probably start with the Switch/Switch 2, if only to be able to play the Zelda and Metroid games that have come out on those, none of which I've touched yet (legitimately or otherwise). I'm in no great hurry to do so, though.