Is Nintendo Safe (from being sued successfully)?

[archer9234]

Fei-Hung said:
I think there are some genuine things to take into consideration:

1) many countries have a form of child safeguarding policies and laws;

2) logic isn't what always wins in courts. Sometimes it is emotions that win the day especially if a jury gets to decide;

3) it can be argued that warnings aren't sufficient and more should have been done since the game encourages you to explore beyond your home;

4) it can be argued that the app allows you to harass people by attracting Pokemon to their home / business and therfore cause a disturbance;

I personally think it's a good thing Nintendo are distancing themselves from the app as much as they can. It might be partially due to some of the things which have happened and at least now they can say they are not responsible and have pointed it out on several occasions.

1. The game was released in those countries. So shouldn't there be a check system in place. To see if the app abids by these rules, to begin with.

2. You're right. But this doesn't really have anything going for it. Most, if not all the problems are caused by the person themselves. Or lack of supervision/teaching, by parents.

3. Should their be an unskippable police warning, at the start of the game loading?

4. A person's doing that. Not the creator. Telemarketers still exsist. And they should be banned. How would this be fixed? You'd have to remove the function completly.

naruball said:

archer9234 said:

It won't work anyway. What people do, during their phone use. Is their fault. Because, the lawsuit can easily put blame on all the companies who's built the phone, too. By this shitty logic. The one thing I've learned from the court system. It's damn easy to file paper work to start a lawsuit. When you try to use this form of BS logic. It will go out the door, from the judge.

The pedophile case. So what's the excuse for where the parents were? Did the parents teach the kids to not talk to people that make you unconfortable etc. It's the parents fault, to begin with. For all the injuries. Do you blame your car, when you stop in the middle of the road, get out, and look for Pikachu? The property owners really have to just call the police, or put a sign up stating go players aren't allowed. At most, file a complaint to Nantic. And have the stop removed. Not a lawsuit.

"Most importantly, what needs to be done for Nintendo to make sure they safeguard themselves?"

Put a generic warning on the bottom of the main menu. Just like how Mcdonalds had to put a retarded drink is hot bullshit warning on their cups.

What do you do for a living? Because it appears to me that you're using common sense and things in court are way more complicated than that. Just because something sounds BS to you, doesn't mean that the legal system will treat it that way.

I didn't say that. The court will treat the matter normally. But once all the complaints are shown as really people doing it to themselves. Or the lack of parental care. How many warnings do people need to be made? Till stupidity finally gets shown. The first thing I ever said about Pokemon Go. When it got announced. "I wonder how many people will go into the street. Or go into bad areas. Because people go into polls with normal texting, a lot.

XanderXT said:

archer9234 said:

It won't work anyway. What people do, during their phone use. Is their fault. Because, the lawsuit can easily put blame on all the companies who's built the phone, too. By this shitty logic. The one thing I've learned from the court system. It's damn easy to file paper work to start a lawsuit. When you try to use this form of BS logic. It will go out the door, from the judge.

The pedophile case. So what's the excuse for where the parents were? Did the parents teach the kids to not talk to people that make you unconfortable etc. It's the parents fault, to begin with. For all the injuries. Do you blame your car, when you stop in the middle of the road, get out, and look for Pikachu? The property owners really have to just call the police, or put a sign up stating go players aren't allowed. At most, file a complaint to Nantic. And have the stop removed. Not a lawsuit.

"Most importantly, what needs to be done for Nintendo to make sure they safeguard themselves?"

Put a generic warning on the bottom of the main menu. Just like how Mcdonalds had to put a retarded drink is hot bullshit warning on their cups.

You don't know the full context of that story, do you?

I just read it. Mcdonalds putting the coffe that high, is stupid. Fine them for that. But I'd also fault the people too. Why aren't you putting the coffe on top of your dashboard? If it's curved. I'd just put it on the floor, outside the car. I'd wouldn't want it to spill and ruin something in the car. I'd never put it in my lap. With something that's hot. Regardless if it can burn me, or not.