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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (15 children)

That's fine. Nintendo would probably sue them for copyright something or other anyway. Like they do to everyone everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (14 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this true? What's the story here?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

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