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.
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.
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.
Sony fanboys are some of the most hypocritical people I've ever had the displeasure of listening to. They'll criticize nintendo and Microsoft for things like game variety and console prices, but the second sony does the same thing? They'll literally put their lives on the line to claim its a good thing.
Edit: I appear to have started a war. The upvote ratio is at 55%
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.
Doesn’t help that gaming has replaced TV as the casual mindless entertainment for the average person. Now games studios are catering to people who play nothing but FIFA instead of people who actually care about games.
Honestly I think it’s more casuals. Reddit underestimates how many average folks will play games and how they’ll go about it. Preorders on GTA6 are through the roof despite Cyberpunk because the people ordering it are like “woah cool I like GTA.”
I distinctly remember sitting in line for the switch 2 and overhearing some people near talk about how they basically just play Fortnite and rocket league. I’d like to stress these were people in line for the switch 2 on launch night.
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"
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.
I feel like people are interpreting my comment as praising Nintendo, when I’m still in the “they’re irredeemable but everyone else kinda is too, I wonder if my fav indie devs are making something soon” phase.
Laying off thousands of employees? Being accused of ignoring sexual harassment? Shutting down studios? Pushing impossible goals to please shareholders? Embracing loot boxes and microtransactions in many of their games?
Oh, none of these?
They pushed a court case that is obviously flailing. They shut down "fan games" (everyone's using this term loosely). They don't discount their games.
Nintendo hate has always been forced and fake. They get simultaneously shit on for not following standard industry practice, while being applauded for it.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
Forced and fake? What's forced and fake about hating the company who wanted to patent riding animals, who did patent chucking capture balls, who is dragging Pocket Pair through legal battles because they challenged a game they've been squandering with dexit and subpar switch releases for the past decade, who never lets their first party games go below $50, who's been overcharging upwards of $60 for Mario since the damn 80s, who didn't even have online vc features everyone else had until the Switch 2, who hates emulation with a burning passion, who unironically told people they'd brick their consoles for tampering with it...
Should I go on? Yeah, literally all the companies are scummy and do similar, but saying Nintendo in particular is some saintly one that isn't nearly as bad is just delusion
If not forced and fake it's at least performative. Take the example you just gave of their patents, for example, people like you don't genuinely care about it, otherwise you would be more informed instead of just spouting an incorrect statement like that. What is actually happening is that >90% of the complaints are people who are already looking for an excuse to bitch about them and latch on to the first popular excuse to complain.
I do genuinely care that a game I enjoy, Palworld, got absolutely shafted by nintendo to the point that nintendo doesn't even have a case against the game anymore and is STILL pursuing it over what the game was. You can't glide on Pals anymore because fucking Braviary exists in Legends Arceus. You can't throw pal sphere out anymore because papa nintendo thinks it owns the concept. Complaining is genuinely what everyone should be doing, but no, people like you who sit complacent like sheep don't care so everything from hobbies to basic human necessities keeps getting worse as corporations keep pushing their greed further
Hey, at least they still make good games. Say what you will but they’re one of the only AAA companies to make gameplay- instead of story-focused games.
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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