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Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Out of every esports event that could face issues I did not think anyone would be crazy angry about Nintendo. Did someone get blueshelled too many times in Mario Kart? I mean, what would drive people to get intense about Nintendo?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Smash (specially Melee) has always attracted questionable people. So if it had happened there I wouldn't be surprised... but this is for Splatoon of all things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Specially melee? When the fallout happened, it was significantly more ultimate personalities who were confirmed problematic, mainly due to the fact that someone younger is more likely to have been playing ultimate(melees an over a 20 year old game), which would lead to a higher chance of a negative interaction.

Splatoon also has some animosity towards nintendo as they were also behind the smash scene because they know that nintendo does not ultimately care about them, as caring about them leads to how Arms fizzled out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nintendo games might be very family friendly, but Nintendo as a company has a well-earned negative reputation in a lot of verticals including esports and community events.

The article doesn't clarify where the threats were coming from, so it may be for different reasons. And obv it doesn't justify harassing and threatening random employees though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Threats are obviously not justifiable and are not okay but Nintendo has been earning a lot of badwill with gamers recently with their decisions to disallow small esport events. They have also aggressively copyright struck videos in the past that realistically just gave their awesome games free advertising but that's not okay with them, etc

They seem to make a lot of really dumb business and especially community decisions despite making some incredible games. It's not too surprising some people would feel burned with that.