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Nintendo is literally a depressing company right now....

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 80 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are very few companies that are able to reach my only if used or stolen classification. Nintendo has managed to reach the not even if used or stolen classification.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 39 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I have Nestle marked as "die before using their products".

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And that's why I quit buying and playing their shit. They're so shitty they don't deserve my money. 🖕

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 25 points 6 months ago

I started emulating Switch this year and played Breath of the Wild for the first time on Yuzu through with 130 hours. And I'm proud of it.

[–] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I dream of one day Nintendo going bankrupt and being forced to sell their IPs to the highest bidder.

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Which to Nintendo, wouldn't matter a bit.

The assholes managing these megacorps are in it for the buck. When they squeeze the final scraps of profit, they go do it somewhere else, having padded their bank accounts and their resume with tales of how they are able to extract maximum returns...

Honestly, I think we are entering an era where via a prompt you will be able to ask AI to make you any experience, show, game, book, VR, song etc etc. I say this as someone who is a VR developer and knows my days are numbered. So are Nintendo’s.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago (2 children)

And this Nintendo is why people pirate your shit... cause you're a shit company.

[–] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I was recently thinking about buying a Switch since I wanted to play a couple Nintendo games, but after this most recent bit of bullshit they're pulling, in conjunction to all their other bullying, im not buying another Nintendo product again. Why would I support this shit company.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 months ago

Emulator on Steamdeck is unironically the best way to play Switch games. I say this as the owner of multiple Switches.

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago

Buy a SteamDeck and emulate instead lmao

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I skipped the new Zelda for this kind of shit.

I have owned every title since the late 80s, purchased limited edition games when possible, limited consoles, etc.

I’m done.

It bums me out. This wasn’t hurting Nintendo. It isn’t like someone will load up Garry’s Mod and decide, “well, gee wiz, I guess I don’t ever have to buy a Nintendo title again!” It wasn’t hurting them at all.

This move right here has cemented it for me. I am done with Nintendo. I have purchased every console they’ve ever made in my lifetime, stating when my parents got me the NES. I won’t be buying any more. I’ll find something else for my children to grow up with and later be nostalgic about.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just get a Steam Deck, install EmuDeck, and run Ryujinx or Yuzu. It runs like a dream on the SD. Like it literally runs better than the actual Switch, with options like unlocked frame rates, mods, and cheats.

I say this as someone who owns two Switches: Just get a Steam Deck instead.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Question for those that do: do you also pirate indie games? I am also inclined to just pirate Nintendo games as I already do on my 2DS, but I'd kinda feel bad about not giving money to actually good developers like Supergiant Games

Edit: Not sure about the downvotes. I'm asking a genuine question

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Most indie games are priced properly. I buy a lot of my titles, but Nintendo has a bad habit of never dropping the price of their titles.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Piracy is a literally victimless crime. Definitely support indie devs if you can afford it, but no one should feel guilty for downloading and running software.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 39 points 6 months ago

It's Nintendo. I'm not shocked it happened... just that it took this long. Its fairly common hear about some fangame or mod via gaming news, and then two weeks later see the headline, "Legend of Mariotroid has been DMCA'd"

[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo isnt a company at this point it's a mafia of below average games.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's living off zelda and mariokart

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo really doesn't know how the Internet works, do they?

[–] sickday@kbin.social 40 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I've just assumed they don't care. They've done scummy shit for years, and it doesn't really matter because they'll still sell massive amounts of their first-party titles. So any bad faith they garner with a subset of their audience or old fans is just dust in the wind since it won't ultimately impact sales.

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[–] atocci@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow, Garry is a real person?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

God that makes me feel old. Yeah, Garry's Mod is literally named that because it's his mod. He started making it as a teen, released it for free for a long time, and then leveraged it into a job and company (FacePunch, they also made Rust a lot later).

I think Garry's Mod 10 was the first paid release, and he and his team have just been updating the paid version since.

The game's official site used to just be his blog, and I believe he still posts semi-regularly about game development, running a company, and life stuff. Always seemed to be a real stand up guy.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I miss the FacePunch forums.

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[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s hilariously pathetic that a bunch of lawyers convinced the people at Nintendo to waste their time doing this shit.

There is zero percent overlap between janky Garry’s mod custom assets with Nintendo sales of their polished AAA games except to probably drive sales of Nintendo games to a degree.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (25 children)

I think the issue is Mario being used with guns and other stuff, it’s detrimental to their image.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Man, did they recently hire a bunch of Disney lawyers or what?

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 27 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They've always been like this, just ask an emulator developer

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or fan game developer. Or data miner. Or gaming youtuber. Or game tournament staff. Or the former actors of their various official "news" video segments. Or former American contractors for them (lots of "fun" stories from the 90's and 00's).

And how can we forget? Their 11th hour backstabbing of Sony on the planned CD addon for the SNES, choosing instead to go with Phillips to make the CD-i, is the whole reason Sony even entered the console wars. Out of fucking spite. The Playstation was originally planned to be a SNES addon like the Sega CD.

So I guess that's one upside to their shittyness.

[–] kbin_space_program@kbin.run 7 points 6 months ago

This. Look at their recent move against the Smash Bros tournament scene.

Look at their love/hate relationship with Splatoon and how their lies and abuse have killed off a once vibrant community and budding e-sport that at one point had several major tournaments.

[–] VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or rom sites. I think it was Nintendo that had Emuparadise shut down.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Emuparadise just got cold feet after another one bit the dust, it's why they are still up, just not hosting roms.

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Do GMod servers work at all with 3rd party asset providers, or does everything have to come from the Workshop?

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 4 months ago

I am amazed at how evil a company can be. Well, if pirating any company‘s content was ever morally justified, its nintendo‘s.

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