Nintendo removing tool-assisted speed runs and rom-hacks on Nico Video
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[QUOTE=itisjuly;47330843]On one side they have horrible PR management, but on the other side they got Mario, Metroid, Zelda, Smash and so on.
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Please elaborate.[/QUOTE]
This is the only real thing Nintendo has been doing wrong. They still have had consistently fantastic first and second party releases on the WiiU and 3ds and that's all that really matters to most people.
Nintendo seems to try its hardest to completely remove any fanbase they have.
one of the most famous videos on nico is that automatic mario montage; this is a really dumb idea
[QUOTE=TheHydra;47331220]one of the most famous videos on nico is that automatic mario montage; this is a really dumb idea[/QUOTE]
That's exactly the type of gold I meant. I still have that one of the videos that I downloaded in YouTube in '09. I get a nice nostalgic feeling when I see that video.
Nintendo still lives in an era 5 years before the internet existed.
Well, if they decide to go further with this, there goes probably a third of AGDQ.
[QUOTE=NuggetWarmer;47330546]I don't know if anyone here uses emulators, but CoolRoms also was recently forced to take down all Nintendo ROMs hosted on their site. Sounds like a purge?[/QUOTE]
CoolRoms has always bent over for Nintendo.
Meanwhile emuparadise continues to give zero fucks, and it's not like most people don't already have a full romset downloaded and archived.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;47331588]Nintendo still lives in an era 5 years before the internet existed.[/QUOTE]
Nintendo is an old Japanese corporation; any sort of change in their structure or behavior is nearly heretical to them.
Nintendo at it again with their hate-boner against harmless videos that do free advertising?
It is a shame someone thought this was a good idea.
It's sad that people have an image of Nintendo as a whole being anti-consumer. On the games side of it, they're one of the few big companies that still cares more about delivering a quality product than trying to make a quick buck, and you can always expect quality from a Nintendo product. Their biggest problem is that they just don't understand this kind of PR and how the internet works, it's been a problem for years but don't ever compare them to apple who would sell your soul if they were somehow able to sneak it into the license agreement.
[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;47330516]It's a massively grey area and I'm 99% sure it's against the ToS.[/QUOTE]
ToS is not a legally binding agreement, it only frees the service provider of liabilities for damages you cause to yourself or your product and can potentially warrant termination of service if there's an ongoing service being provided (which a game on a carrier which you buy, isn't). It can't stop you from doing what you want with your product, it's just if you for instance managed to fry a console with a modified game, Nontendo can go "hah, no, you fucked with it, your problem".
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[QUOTE=Dr. Fishtastic;47330830]Nintendo is guided by its own hubris, and it's just pathetic how people try to justify those actions[/QUOTE]
Which kinda shows they can afford to be guided by their own hubris, as their target demographic is happy with the way it treats it's customers.
TASs are really important and cool
people use TAS tricks to use in normal legitimate speedruns all the time
Nintendo of Japan once again doesnt understand a single fucking thing about people outside of Japan.
[QUOTE=mark6789;47332754]Nintendo of Japan once again doesnt understand a single fucking thing about people outside of Japan.[/QUOTE]
it's more because they still have their 80's/90's mentality of not wanting people to "Cheat" in their games and to "play fairly", and to "preserve the game as intended"
they don't understand that they're basically saying "Play it how we made it" and that that is asinine.
even their consoles have always used older hardware. It's how they are.
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