• steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Maybe they are just a company… Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      because it made them feel feelings.

      same reason anyone has any parasocial relationship. apparently people watch people stream or influence and develop feelings for them.

      i don’t personally expereince any of this so it bafflest he crap otu of me… but apparently that makes me mentally ill in the current technology economy where it’s considered ‘normal’ to gift people 100/1000s of dollars to listen to them whine online.

      at least with Nintendo I am playing for a console and a game to play. not for the experiencing of living viscerally though somebody else.

  • horse@feddit.orgEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Gamers think they hate video game companies, when they really just hate capitalism.

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I think it’s important to separate Nintendo’s legal department from product development. While the products are expensive, they are high quality and are generally enjoyed by their target demographic. Their legal department is a supervillain, sure, but that’s a separate thing entirely from the product development side IMO.

    • Buffy@libretechni.caEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I understand the sentiment, but why is this an important separation? The legal department speaks on behalf of Nintendo more than any other branch in the company. It’s all a trickle effect from the higher ups and the type of culture they want to develop. As a consumer, whether or not their actions come from legal or product development, it should still reflect on the company as a whole and impact my decisions on what to spend my cash on.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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    17 days ago

    They have been for a long time now. They’re only going to keep getting worse until someone or something stops them, and I can’t see what that would be.

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I think we should support game development designed around “infringing” on some of their bullshit patents. I love Pokemon and they’re doing fuck-all with the franchise, so I’d love to see more indie devs’ takes on the concept. Have you seen all the really cool “fakemon” that have existed for decades on Deviant Art?

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Oh there’s more than just on DeviantArt, fan games like Pokémon Uranium are full of fakemons that can rival anything Nintendo is putting out.

        • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Yeah, but that’s actual copyright infringement. I want more Palworlds and Cassette Beasts and Monster Sanctuaries, and I want them to be really blatant about things like summoning your monsters to ride them.

          • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            17 days ago

            Romhacks are not copyright infringement if you don’t distribute the ROMs. They only distribute patch files and users need to acquire the ROMs through legal backups of their own copies of the original games. It is not illegal to patch software, and it is not illegal to distribute a detailed list of all the things you’d change about a copyrighted work in order to make it into something else.

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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            17 days ago

            I just hope someone takes Nintendo to court over that latest bogus patent so it can get thrown out.

  • BannedVoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    16 days ago

    So true, Nintendo, Disney, Nickelodeon, pretty much any institution I really looked up to as a kid has turned out to be pure evil.

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      17 days ago

      they’re pretty damned evil, dude. “but other companies are worse” doesn’t take away from their shittiness.

      • Visstix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Well yeah but they are not sexual harassment evil or driving people to kill themselves evil are they?

        • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
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          17 days ago

          I can’t tell if you’re defending nintendo or not, man. I am weirded out by consumers defending multibillion dollar corporations.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Its just 6 giant supervillains fighting each other over the ruins of tokyo. I think for a lot of people Nintendo is the favorite but if any of them win or if they stop fighting we all lose.

        This is just how giant corporations work in markets. Its when they start working together to destroy the city that things get really bad. (Look at what tyson and cargill did to meat prices in the US, for instance).

        And if you look at who is trying to do that, well which company has been buying up game companies with the hopes of corning the market on AAA titles?