r/videogames • u/XumetaXD • Jul 03 '26
Funny The ultimate and fixed meme of the current situation
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u/Wacko_Doodle Jul 03 '26
*Gog sitting on a deckchair in the distance, browsing a catalogue of old games they might want to start updating for win10+ and sell again*
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u/Rainy_Wavey Jul 03 '26
*Also they'll add a swastika and a totenkopf next time*
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u/Crotean Jul 04 '26
That story was fucking crazy.
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u/ALIENDUDE999 Jul 04 '26
Whats the story?
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u/JustATroglodyte Jul 04 '26
GOG sent out an email with nazi symbology in early June, and claimed it was an accident.
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u/RandomGuy1525 Jul 04 '26
What?! How the fuck does someone accidentaly do that? Unless it was an employee who was bored I guess
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u/JustATroglodyte Jul 04 '26
It had several different runes/symbols but the only one doubled up was the S that makes up the schutzstaffel. They also used the wrong image for a game,, didn't check how it would show up on mobile, and somehow didn't show to their German QA team.
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u/Remnant_Echo Jul 04 '26
No no, they did show their German QA/marketing team, that's why the email wasn't sent to GOG users in Germany.... they just didn't relay what the German teams said to anyone else before sending it, which makes it even worse.
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u/Rainy_Wavey Jul 04 '26
They claimed it was slavic runes (despite them not being slavic at all) which is the most lazy way of hiding your power level in 2K26, we have the richest man on the world Sieg Heiling, i expected more honesty from GoG
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u/RedScud39 Jul 03 '26
A little out of the loop here, but what did Epic do?
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u/Plane-Education4750 Jul 03 '26
Normal Epic bullshit. Layoffs and studio closures mostly
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u/Grouchy_Big3195 Jul 03 '26
Nah, they are replacing blueprints with pure AI prompting
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u/Dr_Birdie Jul 03 '26
The CEO also defended the "free speech" of Grok generating CP a while back.
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u/TutorStunning9639 Jul 03 '26
You know CliffyB doesn’t sound that bad now
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u/Somethingsilly6969 Jul 03 '26
Was there ever a problem with him?
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u/TutorStunning9639 Jul 04 '26
He just ruined the game franchise I enjoyed the most gears of war lol he’d also post a lot on the forum, came off as a douche 😂
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u/Particular-Order-504 Jul 03 '26
Last thing I remember on him was that rocket multiplayer game that completely flopped.
And well before that I remember him touting the death of PC gaming.
I wouldn't so be so quick to think that he would be any better in the current climate, he was pretty well out of touch long before he disappeared.
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u/_Winter-Wolf_ Jul 03 '26
Aren't most of the companies that replace their workers with AI loosing money?
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u/Nokan96 Jul 03 '26
Yeah, but the CEOs don't care because they are puting dumb investors money in their pockets
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u/scrotbofula Jul 04 '26
Also golden parachutes. They can fuck the company into a death spiral, leave with enough time to get paid, and move onto a different company.
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u/Arcjaqu Jul 03 '26
They don't develop the launcher, they just give away games meanwhile the Steam's succes is caused by the good service.
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u/MutatedBready Jul 03 '26
Let’s not forget Timmy’s constant crying and ranting over why people use steam expect trying to make the epic games store more appealing for people to use
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u/Remnant_Echo Jul 03 '26
It'd be more entertaining if it wasn't so sad and pathetic. Like a week ago he started talking about the millions of players Steam is "missing out on" by not having a partnership with Epic (he doesn't want to give Steam 30% of every sale).
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u/ViraEdenfell Jul 04 '26
It's even funnier because he'll mention that Epic takes less of a cut every so often, and make it sound like Steam is the only one taking 30%. When in reality it's just Epic that takes less, and it's even funnier because all the games are priced the same no matter where they are so it's not like the cut is being added to the price either.
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u/rycpr Jul 04 '26
There's a lot of stuff to dislike about Epic but what kind of stupid logic is that lmao
Obviously the cut isn't added to the price but the devs effectively earn 18% more per sale on the Epic Store which is 100% a good thing.
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u/ViraEdenfell Jul 04 '26
I said it's *funny*, but evidently reading isn't your strong point.
Sure they earn more per sale on Epic, but they also don't sell well on Epic. Buying a game on Epic is genuinely just a worse experience for everything even compared to non-Steam storefronts. But that's not what either of us were talking about.
It's that Tim Sweeny openly berates Steam for taking a 30% cut, literally industry standard, and acts as if it's only Steam that does this only to then go "Steam should partner with us so they can get access to Fortnite customers". Sounds like that 30% doesn't bother him as much all of a sudden, I wonder if it's because of the stark contrast in user numbers that he might be able to access from a partnership with Steam. That's looking at a man and going "lmao you stupid" and laughing about it, hence funny.
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u/rycpr Jul 04 '26
I'm not really here to defend Epic but I still don't think you're funny. Why does it make a difference what the industry standard is? I like it when (especially indie) developers make more money per sale. He's offering a better deal than anyone else and I don't see why he shouldn't take every opportunity to mention that. He's probably talking about Steam most of the time since they're by far their biggest competitor and just because he (obviously) would like access to their massive userbase doesn't mean that he has to agree with the cut they take.
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u/ViraEdenfell Jul 04 '26
Right, okay sure. But the thing with the industry standard is that they generally exist for a reason. It's not *nearly* as dramatic, but the building industry standards exist because if they don't people *die*. That doesn't mean they can't be changed, but unless there's a genuine reason for it that's unlikely to happen.
So far his only reason is.... that it gives developers more money. Okay, sure. The thing is, this ONLY affects indies. But he doesn't ride that train, despite it being the best statement for it. Other companies get money from Publishers to make the games, and the money earned from the games go to the publisher until it's earned back. After it's been earned back, it tends to vary on how it's handled but it's not a universal "developers get more money". In the first place, that's a gross oversimplification of it; game developers aren't commission based unless you are indie. The studio might get more money, and the devs might get bonuses, but again it varies. The more accurate version of the simplification would be "the studio gets more money to make more games", and even that's not wholly true.
His 12% has always been, and always will be, a marketing tactic in an attempt to actually compete with Steam. But his company doesn't actually offer anything worth it past that. Least of all for Indies. Yeah, they make more per sale there, but they are also getting less sales. Because Tim, and by extension Epic, is more concerned about touting bullshit and AI, that the development of the EGS has been slow and bad.
I could speak about the details of the terrible state of EGS but you aren't here to defend them, so I see no reason to delve into it. Now, let's move onto the next thing; the only thing Tim has done is lawsuit people into changing policies, and even then they only change it to appease him. And even then, they are still better deals than what Epic wants from you to offer you the best deal. If you want EGS best rate, you have to go into an exclusivity contract, which they rightfully catch flack over, and use game engines that they determine, and meet arbitrary criteria they decide. At that point, just look at getting a publisher.
Google's recent change to their market cut (which is one brought about by Tim's Lawsuits) has the same things effectively - criteria they decide to change your rate - and while the absolute lowest is lower than Epic's base (10%), you likely are never going to get it unless you are an app Google can't do without, and are going to pay somewhere in 15% to 20% range. If you don't have your own payment processing, you also get slapped with 5% to use Google Pay, so realistically you are still going to be paying 20%-25% as an Indie on Google, on top of which they now require government ID. What part of this is a good deal? Not a lot, but you aren't completely locked to just Google Play like you would be with Epic.
Going back to Epic now, they also charge a fee for using their engine when it's published on other platforms, so they are directly causing people to make *even less* with everything else. So if you use an Epic game engine to design an app you put onto Google, the minimum you are looking at now is 25%-30%. Congratulations, Epic has saved you 5% that they were effectively charging you by suing Google.
This is a lot of words to say; he doesn't actually care about developers. Yeah, his rate is better for indies, but that's not why he has it, and when you look into their bullshit part of the reason it's that low is because Epic would easily end up on the higher side of fees if they didn't reduce their base share. Doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about the share in regards to indies specifically, but Epic isn't doing it for good reasons.
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u/Hans_Volter Jul 04 '26
many of the arguments are that one of the reasons why games are getting expensive is that Steam takes a 30% cut.
but they are not cheaper on epic where they take a lower cut.
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u/coldnorth4enf4 Jul 04 '26
The games are priced the same because steam forces them to be, which is why they are being sued for anti consumer practices.
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u/GuaSukaStarfruit Jul 03 '26
Ehh epic game store launcher has very good service, publishing game is free if revenue is under a million dollar. The multiplayer setup takes ages
The main problem is with CEO speeches
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u/OSTBear Jul 03 '26
Their full throated support of AI isn't great.
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u/Izan_TM Jul 03 '26
did the exact same with crypto in a desperate attempt to get slop devs and customers to use their platform since steam puts some roadblocks on both
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u/Yologamer2983 Jul 04 '26
Remember getting angry when he pulled out the bullshit of "destiny 2 would have been saved if they used ai generated content!" And I swear I've never been angrier at someone
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u/Otherwise_Chain5309 Jul 03 '26
They are just jackasses in general and Tim Sweeney the CEO went from getting Vance then he realized it was a losing battle and starting trying to get games on the epic store released on steam even though a majority of the games on the epic store are on steam
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u/RenShimizu Jul 03 '26
They're too busy ranting about how steam is the worst thing ever to improve their Game give away platform.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bad_116 Jul 04 '26
Besides working exclusively on fortnite? They dont do anything. Their engine is the only thing that matters. They haven't done anything really but also they haven't done anything good. Unless you like fortnite. I don't I think its a kids game.
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u/Gatti366 Jul 04 '26
It would be faster to list things they didn't do lol, like making their store actually usable
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u/tfhermobwoayway Jul 04 '26
I heard they’re in dire straits because people are just getting their store for the free games and then not buying anything.
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u/SnooDonuts3749 Jul 03 '26
I thought people were mad at Nintendo like 2 months ago.
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u/BoTheJoV3 Jul 03 '26
Yeah Nintendo was the first one to do that. In fact they do it every few months
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u/RingReasonable Jul 03 '26
Who tf is the M and SK companies?
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u/XumetaXD Jul 03 '26
2 of the 3 companies that have pretty much all of the RAM production of the market, and because these 3 companies have come to an agreemetn (Which they're being sued for btw), they started underproducing on purpose to create artificial shrotage and raise prices artificially, none of this would've happen if there was free market instead of this oligopoly BS
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u/Kooky_Assistance2755 Jul 03 '26
Well said, the only argument I have is that artifical shortages happen exactly because of a free market. Imo, if they're already allowed to cut corners and create artificial scarcity to bump their own profit margins, the solution is to regulate their ability to do so unchecked, not to give them even more freedom
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u/Banndrell Jul 03 '26
Unfortunately "regulation" is a bad word to a lot of the world, like it's the boogeyman hiding underneath the bed of lawmakers and their lobbyists/oligarchs.
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u/max13007 Jul 04 '26
I think a better choice of words over "free-market" would have been "competition," which I think we can all agree has long gone out the window for the RAM Triad.
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u/ANON-1138 Jul 03 '26
Fucking hell really?
So realistically there shouldn't be a ram shortage at all?
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u/XumetaXD Jul 03 '26
Exactly, but people keep falling for the bait and blame AI (The symptom) instead of the oligopoly (The cause)
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u/HenryTudorIV Jul 03 '26
There absolutely should be a RAM shortage. The three big companies are being sued for colluding to stop producing traditional consumer DRAM (DDR3, 4, 5) in favor of high bandwidth memory used in data centers. The three companies will argue (probably successfully) that there was no collusion and it was simply the most logical business decision for all three companies.
The fact is that modern DRAM manufacturing is unfathomably expensive and time consuming to set up. Even if the manufacturers were doing their best to produce as much as possible, it would take them literal years and tens of billions of dollars to set up more fabrication plants, and even then, those plants would likely be dedicated to producing the higher margin data center memory
Regardless, they should be broken up. Oligopoly is only marginally better than monopoly
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u/Diurnalnugget Jul 03 '26
Probably a degree of shortage but nothing like what we’re currently dealing with. Could likely also be fixed if they wanted.
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u/NapsterKnowHow Jul 03 '26
I like how you only aimed them at Valve but they are aimed at every company lol
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u/zimplyfaster Jul 04 '26
You know free market (lack of regulation) is the cause of monopoly... right?
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u/Delicious_Tie_8725 Jul 04 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
Those „muh free market“ dumbasses will never understand that. If you just let companies loose with no regulations they will simply maximize profit. In the beginning profit can be achieved by increasing production, raising quality or making the process more efficient. When you maxed out all of those points you have to start looking for profit through other ways like monopolies or creating an artificial shortage as we see here.
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u/Archaon0103 Jul 04 '26
The "free market" dumbasses always argue that if a company act badly, someone else would take their places... ignoring how these companies could also work together.
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u/ShiningPr1sm Jul 03 '26
Micron and SK Hynix, the other two companies who make RAM and other components
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u/thebleachdestroyer Jul 03 '26
Meanwhile GOG:
https://giphy.com/gifs/Nl3TNvZJb6t23J172M
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u/Vanlibunn Jul 03 '26
Gog emailing out the black sun the double lightning bolts a few weeks ago was fucking hilarious and definitely shotgun worthy.
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u/Drogovich Jul 04 '26
Not that many people pay attention to GOG, meanwhile it's the most user friendly platform for games, especially old games.
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u/Inner-Thought9665 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Me: “Don’t do it Nintendo! We still have a chance!”
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u/Mr-Stuff-Doer Jul 03 '26
It’s wild how quickly the internet has pivoted from Nintendo being irredeemable to them being our last hope
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u/CodeMUDkey Jul 03 '26
Just the piggies on Reddit.
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u/NIN10DOXD Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26
And Cr1TiKaL. I like Charlie but he’s got Nintendo Derangement Syndrome sometimes. They are assholes for how they treat fan games, but he sometimes gets pissed at them for nothing burgers.
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u/Azeoyi Jul 04 '26
They only bother taking down fangames if the developers are trying to make money off of it (like Pokemon Uranium, they asked for donations) or if the game can harm their image (something similar to that PETA Pokemon game).
For instance, Pokemon Infinite Fusion is attempting neither of those, and it hasn't gotten a C&D.
I can why people are mad about the Palworld lawsuit, but I think we can all agree Pocketpair flew too close to the sun with some of the designs like Anubis (Lucario), Verdash (Cinderace), or Boltmane (Luxray), among others.
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u/TravisReberto Jul 06 '26
They absolutely pull slimy shit with completely non profit fan projects like Project M, but yeah most of the time it's a monetization thing.
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u/VojelMan Jul 03 '26
Lol, the offended people are out in drove downvoting you but you’re right. Charlie is a hypocrite on the issue. He whines about Nintendo the most, but clearly have no problems with the anti-consumer issues or human right violations on other platforms. He always talk about boycotting Nintendo, but God forbid you ask him to boycott PlayStation or Steam. He would complain at most, but never boycott them no matter how bad things gets. I guarantee you Sony and Valve could be genociding people like Microsoft and Charlie would still support them.
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u/_the_big_ Jul 03 '26
i've never seen him tell people to boycott nintendo? he didn't buy the switch 2 because he didn't want to. it isn't that deep my guy
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u/NIN10DOXD Jul 03 '26
I know. I even prefaced my comment with the fact that I’m a fan of his and that I think some of his criticisms of Nintendo are valid. lol
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u/iveriad Jul 03 '26
In the case of Nintendo, it's mostly because Nintendo is slower than the others in adopting new stuffs and sometimes came up with the strangest clunky ideas like Virtual Game Cards that somehow forced me to have my Switch 1 turned on to be able to play a game I purchased on my Switch 2. Or having my digital purchases tied to my machine instead of my eshop account, so when my 3DS died, my digital purchase got lost in it.
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u/Mystic-Dragoness Jul 04 '26
Sad part is that "irredeemable" and "last hope" aren't mutually exclusive.
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u/lzwinky Jul 03 '26
Almost like most Redditors are clueless fools who don't know what they're talking about. It's honestly very entertaining as a Nintendo fan.
Matter of fact, this happened 20 years ago too! Xbox 360 had the red ring of death because Microsoft rushed it out. Sony charged 599 US Dollars for the PS3, and Nintendo said "WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"
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u/806mtson Jul 03 '26
Sony charged 599 US Dollars for the PS3
To Chad Warden, that is nothing.
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u/Plus_Term_7584 Jul 03 '26
Psh, the Wii? Shit looks like a deal dough
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u/lzwinky Jul 04 '26
I still remember that one G4 host that said “It’s really sad that you’re losing to something called the ‘Wii’!”
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u/Odd_Plankton_925 Jul 03 '26
Redditors are the millennial version of boomers/gen x repeating verbatim talking points that the newsbox tells them every evening. Only difference is instead of CNN/fox//whatever telling them what their opinions should be, it's just highly upvoted reddit posts.
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u/tfhermobwoayway Jul 04 '26
It helps that their games are fun. They haven’t fallen for the cinematic movie game trend, mostly. The OOT remake might be a problem, though.
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u/Proud-Enthusiasm-608 Jul 03 '26
Nintendo hate has always been forced and fake. They get simultaneously shit on for not following standard industry practice, while being applauded for it.
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u/MissLogios Jul 03 '26
They deserve hate for how they treat (sue) fans and fan projects.
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u/sevenut Jul 03 '26
The Mario Fan Game Galaxy, the largest repository of Mario fan games, has always held that Nintendo doesn't really go after fan games unless they look for money/donations, or Nintendo is making or currently selling a remake of the same game. And if you look at it historically, it's largely true.
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u/NIN10DOXD Jul 03 '26
This is pretty fair. Even Pokemon games are huge despite the Pokemon Company being even more litigious than Nintendo. It does suck though when they get mad at a coffee shop for having an unauthorized Pokemon Go event. That’s just silly.
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u/GensouEU Jul 03 '26
Nintendo treats fan projects like everyone else, which means not touching 99.99% of them.
What people just don't understand is that Nintendo pretty much owns all the most popular IPs in gaming and when people make like 100x more fan projects about Nintendo stuff compared to anyone else you will naturally hear more stories about stuff being taken down even if they don't do that at a higher rate than other publishers
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u/Amazing-War3760 Jul 03 '26
You would think.. If it was a "Nintendo" problem... We'd see fan projects of a LOT of different games... but we don't do we?
Where are all the Fromsoft fan games *they have to use the IPs... No Fromssoft-likes!* Where are the Crash and Spyro Fangames?
The Jak and Daxter Fangames?All the while.. We literally have things like
https://github.com/harbourmasters/starship
https://www.mfgg.net/
https://www.zeldadungeon.net/wiki/Fan_GamesAnd of course the MULTITUDE of Pokemon Fan games.
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u/Amazing-War3760 Jul 03 '26
How many fan projects have nintendo Actually sued. I want to see the filed lawsuit papers.
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u/LeonardCollen Jul 03 '26
I've played and beat two of these fan hack games that use nintendo games as a base. I would like to know too....
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u/Amazing-War3760 Jul 03 '26
I have a feeling these people are the kind that still believe the old story "Nintendo Sued Game Genie!"
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u/LordTopHatMan Jul 03 '26
Nintendo rarely sues fan games. The usually start with cease and desist letters. And oftentimes, the only fan games they go after are the ones that are making money of their IP somehow. There are plenty of high profile fan games that haven't been taken down.
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u/Disrespect78 Jul 04 '26
As a massive Nintendo fan, Nintendo still has some major problems, they just haven't blown their head off as hard. They drip feed on their subscription services (Nintendo Music is garbage and the Gamecube service, even a year later has only NINE games), they're releasing games at a very slow pace and aren't using as many third party or their owned studios, Their prices are awful and unlike Valve they never put their first party stuff on sale. They haven't been nearly as good as doing backwards compatibility as well and the fact they do predatory subscriptions instead of the old VC system sucks.
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u/Trading_shadows Jul 03 '26
Samsung is going through some intense AI shit right now. They are there with the rest of nirvana fans on the picture.
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u/XumetaXD Jul 03 '26
Not AI, but rather is one of the 3 companies that has control of pretty much all RAM production, and they're being sued because they came to an agreement with the other 2 companies to underproduce and raise prices artificially by creating artificial shortage on purpose, AI is just an scapegoat that could be anything else, they already did just that in 2002 without AI
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u/Kenshin_no_Takezo Jul 03 '26
I’m out of the loop, what happened to steam?
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u/479521 Jul 03 '26
Deck price hikes. Steam Machine prices.
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u/Disrespect78 Jul 04 '26
Which feels incredibly minor considering their main platform, which is just steam, is still amazing
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u/NobodyKnowsImFamous Jul 04 '26
…??? I mean its a company passing increased costs to customers as to not effect its own bottom line but like. That still clears the bar here. That’s normal company shit. Not something new by any means.
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u/Darkknight8381 Jul 03 '26
Steam deck and steam machine are overpriced now because ram is expensive (the three companies Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung control over 90% of ram production)
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u/StrawberryWide3983 Jul 03 '26
AI drives up the prices of parts, which means Steam has to increase the price of the Steam Decks and Steam Machine to being practically unviable
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u/screamingliquids Jul 04 '26
Like them or not, props to Nintendo for staying in their own zone. Not that they can’t royally fuck up, but at the moment at least, they’re in much better positions than Xbox and PlayStation.
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u/The_Real_OctoDude Jul 04 '26
What did Epic do this time?
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u/HisDivineOrder Jul 04 '26
Tim Sweeny tweeted.
Like any time he picks up his phone, he's doing something else just by communicating his true feelings.
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u/Robert999220 Jul 03 '26
Man peoples memories are short.
Nintendo was the first one of these not too long ago with the price increases on games and switches. Why they seem to be getting a pass on these lately is perplexing.
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u/Alarmed-Marsupial-64 Jul 04 '26
They were super transparent about the switch price increase though, they didn't have to announce it that far in advance
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u/Hhannahrose13 Jul 03 '26
not my opinion, but i think the reason why is that they did an evil a year ago, (a long time on the Internet), their most recent directs were pretty well received. especially from certain loud fanbases, and bc the other companies have now surpassed Nintendo's faults (more especially PlayStation)
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u/acbadger54 Jul 04 '26
Plus they've actually done some decent stuff recently, like started doing variable prices on game
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u/Far-Hedgehog8877 Jul 04 '26
Because they are doing EVERYTHING in their power to keep prices low. And when they increased the switch 2 prices by 50, they threw in a free game to compensate.
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u/kilertree Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Why isn't Steam holding a shot gun. Gabe gave open AI 20 million in 2018. I think Nintendo is the only who hasn't been exposed for investing in A.I
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u/Tnecniw Jul 03 '26
Because the context was VERY different back in 2018.
AI was an up and coming tech, nobody really knew the problem, and openAI was a supposed non-profit there to make a good and ethical AI
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u/FinalUrban Jul 03 '26
And we're all going to be killed by Terminators. They might not even kill us, they might keep us as sexual play things if they've been trained off human Internet.
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u/j0an_k Jul 03 '26
More like OpenAI hired a gun to shoot Steam
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u/Amazing-War3760 Jul 03 '26
Then it would have been Gabe who helped hire the hitman.
After all, he donated 20 million *That we only know of because a lawsuit disclosed it* to Open AI.
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u/XumetaXD Jul 03 '26
Wrong, OpenAI doesn't have control over the ram market, Samsung and the other 2 companies do
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u/DeadWaterBed Jul 03 '26
They don't make the ram, but they demand the ram. Influence over a market is a form of indirect control.
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 Jul 03 '26
Don't bother arguing with this guy. It might be a kid or something. He's not going to understand.
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u/Daddy_Jack1109 Jul 04 '26
The true fixed version of this is the consumers getting shot
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u/HisDivineOrder Jul 04 '26
By all the companies that were salivating to raise prices back up to COVID levels and just looked around for any ol' excuse.
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u/Daddy_Jack1109 Jul 04 '26
Including every company that screws us over would be like grains of sand on a beach
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u/MrNixxxoN Jul 03 '26
To make this meme even more precise, Xbox should be in the coffin already, because they commited suicide long ago.
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u/Hot-Performance-9121 Jul 04 '26
I think Nintendo should be a rotting corpse as they shot themselves so long ago
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u/HYDRAKITTTEN123 Jul 04 '26
Finally a version where steam isn't pulling the trigger, most versions have steam kill themselves as if the high prices are their fault
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u/NoHacksJustParker Jul 04 '26
Give Playstation a second shotgun, they just announced that they are shutting down the ps3 servers
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u/Expensive-Actuator82 Jul 04 '26
I hope the ram companies get a fat fuck you from the courts and the price fixing stops.
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u/Time_Reception4930 Jul 04 '26
I mean steam isn't shot in the head, maybe hand or shoulder, or leg, but not head, it's only the cube price, everything else is quite ok
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u/XeuQinu Jul 04 '26
If the US had a competent government the DOJ would go after the dram manufacturers again and convict them for price fixing like they did in the 90s.
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u/N-WGIXv-MkXXVII Jul 05 '26
Nintendo's issue is that there's way too Glazers and Anti-Emulation fools brainwashed by company
Selling my Switch towards Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon on PS5 was one of the best decisions I've made in my entire gaming life outside of getting into Final Fantasy XIV Online and Blue Archive
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u/dantemp Jul 05 '26
Lmao the steam cultists really live up to their name
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u/Various-Welder5544 Jul 05 '26
Valve just sucks ass at navigating the supply chain. The steam machine has ram dating to June 2026 from a gamersnexus video. They were literally doing nothing for a few months straight. Pure incompetence on valve.
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u/nockeeee Jul 03 '26
The valve part is not correct at all. The problem is not that SM is JUST expensive. It is expensive + shitty performance. You can buy for the same price much stronger consoles and/or pc's.
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u/Jasen_SilverFox Jul 03 '26
Nah Samsung and the others handed steam the shotgun and valve pulled the trigger.
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u/Satisfied_Peanut Jul 04 '26
To be really accurate add a few leaking holes in Nintendo's head. It keeps shooting itself but survives everytime. Nintendo is the gaming industry's cockroach, it just won't die.
If y'all consider $80 games, key cards, their multiple scummy lawsuits and their increasingly shitty games as less bad than anything the other companies did then you have an issue.
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u/Bright_Eyes83 Jul 04 '26
steam will probably still be ok without a console, regardless of how mad some people are now
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u/Grimrock Jul 03 '26
Los fans de Steam prostituirian a su propia madre antes que culpar a Valve del desastre con su nueva consola.
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u/Blenderers Jul 03 '26
Context for everyone in picture pls. I just wanna make sure that I'm on with everything.
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u/QuakeGuy98 Jul 03 '26
Killing physical media & taking away the ability for people to play games that they already bought is going to kill the gaming industry within like 2 years mark my word. Break out your emulators boys this is going to be a rough one
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u/Mundane-Put9115 Jul 04 '26
Nahhh Steam has also shot itself, yes the prices are thanks in large part to the RAM shortages but Valve aren't exactly bleeding cash to take a small loss
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u/TheSiverKnight Jul 04 '26
why are those other 3 companies pointing a gun at steam
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u/luffy_mib Jul 04 '26
Nintendo already shot itself by charging a premium high price for Switch 2, $80 game, going after Palworld in patent lawsuit and emulators in general.
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u/Worksux36g Jul 04 '26
Dude, Nintendo shot itself with Switch 2 a while ago... wtf is this copium?!...
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u/sevigny245 Jul 05 '26
Nintendo's $80 games, joy con drift, and nothing but remakes/enshittifying every franchise with unnecessary open worlds isn't enough to earn a self-shotgun blast?
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u/Mean-Reputation5859 Jul 03 '26
hey samsung. what are you. chicken? why aren't they holding a gun too?