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Gamescom Scraps Best Nintendo Game Award Because It Has "Too Few" Games (www.thegamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] zfirerose@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What does that even mean...? Sue them for an award?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They sued people for competing in a competitive game they made, so they're not above it.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this true? What's the story here?

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Super Smash Bros. has a long history of contention with Nintendo.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Enough for something to actually end up in court? Because that's pretty specific

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Nintendo shuts down Smash World Tour ‘without any warning’

Said tournament was going to have the largest ever prize pool of $250,000.

Given the company’s aggressive copyright enforcement, this isn’t the first time that Nintendo has forced grassroots competitions using its games to stop operating, having similarly shut down a Super Smash Bros. tournament in 2020. Nintendo also notably ordered Evo — the world’s largest fighting game tournament — to shut down a planned Melee event in 2013 before reversing the decision.

The Smash World Tour said it will lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the shutdown but reassures all attendees of the canceled events that they will be issued full refunds.

[–] limitedduck@awful.systems 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not a lawsuit, but I agree that's pretty nasty

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

Presumably if they didn't comply it would have been a lawsuit

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

More like waving around legal orders against people who comply because they can't afford to challenge them in court. For this and other reasons, fuck Nintendo.

[–] zfirerose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I know but the joke doesn't make sense in that context. They would not be using their property; they would recognize them for it.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I would be unsurprised if Nintendo tried to sue a Patent Office for looking at Nintendos name on their own damn patent submission.

At this point they'd probably sue their employees for uttering character names outside of work.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't need to make sense. It just needs to paint companies in a bad light.

[–] zfirerose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean whatever, if you hate Nintendo that's one thing but the joke is such a stretch, lol

It's not a matter of whether you hate them or not

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world -1 points 3 months ago

You seem to have misunderstood what I said. I was being sarcastic, taking the role of the person making the joke.