It was Sega. Because Sega does what Nintendon’t
Comment on Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators
TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It didn’t say in the article but why the hell are people sending threats? Knowing the types of gamers that send threats it’s probably a really fucking dumb reason, isn’t it?
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 6 months ago
assembly@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Out of every esports event that could face issues I did not think anyone would be crazy angry about Nintendo. Did someone get blueshelled too many times in Mario Kart? I mean, what would drive people to get intense about Nintendo?
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Smash (Melee specifically) has always attracted questionable people. So if it had happened there I wouldn’t be surprised… but this is for Splatoon of all things.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Specially melee? When the fallout happened, it was significantly more ultimate personalities who were confirmed problematic, mainly due to the fact that someone younger is more likely to have been playing ultimate(over a 20 year old game), which would lead to a higher chance of a negative interaction.
Splatoon also has some animosity towards nintendo as they were also behind the smash scene because they know that nintendo does not ultimately care about them, as caring about them leads to how Arms fizzled out.
spriteblood@kbin.social 6 months ago
Nintendo games might be very family friendly, but Nintendo as a company has a well-earned negative reputation in a lot of verticals including esports and community events.
The article doesn't clarify where the threats were coming from, and obv it doesn't justify harassing and threatening random employees though.
iAmTheTot@kbin.social 6 months ago
anyone who would send a threat has a dumb reason.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 months ago
I’m guessing some hyper-triggered gamer who saw there was a girl playing or something equally stupid
TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Apparently Nintendo doesn’t let small esport competitions to take place. They want to be the only ones. But at the same time that’s just as dumb a reason to send threats as what you said lol. There is never a good reason to send threats regardless
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
If they shut down other people’s events I don’t feel so bad that someone shut down theirs.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Probably still mad that Mario’s big booty was shrunk
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I need to preface this by saying it’s really stupid that anyone’s sending threats, but I think the reason they’re doing it is because Nintendo has made a very hard-line stance against small esport events. You arent allowed to host events without their permission
TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gotcha. I can see why people are upset. But threats? I guess I was right in thinking it was a dumb reason. Nintendo can go fuck themselves for sure. But at the same time if you are the type of person to send threats over trivial bullshit you are still a garbage human.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I fucking hate gamers, and I am one.
Remember when people started sending death threats to the CDPR over the Cyberpunk delays? People had been spending way too long sucking Witcher 3’s dick so they automatically though CP2077 was gonna be the next game of the decade.
They were right, in a way.
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 6 months ago
Threats are never justified, but I do see why they did it. “If we cant do it, you cant either” is a pretty common mentality, and this is a surefire way to completely shut down the official events.
The worst bit is now, if nintendo caves at all and pulls back their draconian behavior, these people will count it as a victory achieved via threats and likely encourage their use elsewhere.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nintendo is my favorite gaming company, but man, their IP lawyers are absolutely vicious. Granted they’re also in Japan, the poster boy for a corporate-owned country (I lived there several years, no joke, if you think big corps run the US you ain’t seen nothing yet) which makes American IP law look like Chinese IP law, but even for a Japanese company, they’re brutal. What I find rather ironic about it is that a measure they took to protect their image and that of their brands from controversy over bad gamer behavior, led to bad gamer behavior directed at them. But either way, to these idiots sending threats, it’s a classic instance of “this is why we can’t have nice things”, ruining even the fun we were allowed to have for everyone and probably making it even less likely that Nintendo will reverse their policy.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
To being it a tier higher, id argue South Korea is a tier higher for corporate owned countries.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 6 months ago
How can they prevent you from hosting unofficial events? What legal basis do they have for it?
hasnt_seen_goonies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Depending on your definition of “unofficial”, nothing. But at some point you need to make media to tell people about your tournament, or you want to stream the tournament, and doing either of those without using Nintendo’s copyrighted material/trademarks is impossible.
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I hate that. Thanks for the response.