Do people not realize that the Big House tournament was using illegally copied versions of the game?
“Unfortunately, the upcoming Big House tournament announced plans to host an online tournament for Super Smash Bros. Melee that requires use of illegally copied versions of the game in conjunction with a mod called ‘Slippi’ during their online event. Nintendo therefore contacted the tournament organizers to ask them to stop. They refused, leaving Nintendo no choice but to step in to protect its intellectual property and brands. Nintendo cannot condone or allow piracy of its intellectual property.”
It's amazing to me that most people don't pay attention to this kind of stuff or even know about it, and it's entirely because of The Big House's control of the publicity of this particular situation. They immediately came out and said that Nintendo's primary reason was because of the use of a mod made for online play, when as far as I can tell Nintendo never said that was the primary reason and in fact even listed the illegally copied versions as the first major offense. It makes The Big House look incredibly disingenuous.
Not only that, but on the subject of the JOYCONBOYZ shells, the indiegogo campaign that funded them for charity already shipped the shells promised to the backers months ago. The only thing that's being stopped is the reselling of the product, as Nintendo never agreed with the use of their trademark to begin with. In other words, Nintendo actually already let a lot of those charity sales slip through anyways, months ago. Not to mention that the original creator only sounded upset about the ordeal right after the Smash Melee scandal, even though Nintendo not allowing for resale has been going for a while now, since September in fact. He's even edited the Joycon shellz, got them to be backed again, and is now selling them again edited, just without the word JOYCON. Yep, that's right, all he had to do was edit his shell slightly, but Nintendo is big bad for this. He even used the event as a publicity stunt for his business ( https://twitter.com/Cptn_Alex/status/1335963031180881920?s=20 ).
And on the subject of cancelling the Splatoon 2 livestream .... really ... when 30% of your major players are sponsoring the illegaly copying of your games (probably unintentionally), why would you keep the livestream up? It's not like they cancelled the event anyways, they just cancelled the livestream. Big whoop.
I don't mind people illegaly downloading old games, especially games where there is no convenient way to access them. But at the same time, I wouldn't try to get that illegal transaction sponsored by the company that's allowing me to hold an event. What the fuck logic does that make? What's dumbest of all is that, these pro players already have their own copies of the game. And ROM dumping is legal.
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