Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators

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• TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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    • TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • Grangle1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • AeroLemming@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How can they prevent you from hosting unofficial events? What legal basis do they have for it?

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  • IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was Sega. Because Sega does what Nintendon’t

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  • assembly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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    • Lanusensei87@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • spriteblood@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    anyone who would send a threat has a dumb reason.

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  • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m guessing some hyper-triggered gamer who saw there was a girl playing or something equally stupid

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    • TheSadPineapple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably still mad that Mario’s big booty was shrunk

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People are just the worst.

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  • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right you are fellow Algorithm!

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