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  • Rin@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Please choose one
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    18 days ago

    I don’t think blizzard gets as much hate as it should but I think the reason is simple. :/

    i want you to consider that fact that blizzard is a 30 billion dollar company meanwhile nintendo is closer to a 2.5 trillion dollar company. There’s going to be a lot more eyes at nintendo than blizzard which will bring more hate to it specifically :/

  • Rin@lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Please choose one
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    18 days ago

    It’s not that they want money, Nintendo is mainly anticonsumerist, but they’re also a terrible, evil company. Here’s a couple examples why i think so off the top of my head:

    • Locked down hardware. Well, at least they try to lock it down as much as possible.
    • Insane prices for hardware and games. (50 quid for base Animal Crossing fucked me off when I realised that the DLC costs 50 quid fucking more, i returned my Switch).
    • Shitty customer service (look up joy con drift)
    • Lawsuits left and right:
      • DMCA to strike down FOSS emulators because they included a 16 byte decryption key that’s literally public knowledge at this point. Funnily enough, they use a similar FOSS emulator in their own products.
      • Sued the small company that owns Pal World because they included some of their “patents”. We all know that’s bullshit.
      • Sued a journalist for writing for a blog about piracy and fucked his life despite him having no involvement in any of the development. (he was forced to take a deal to avoid them making things worse.)
      • Sued a guy who did in fact enable piracy. That’s fair. Taking 30% of his income for the rest of his life is fucking evil.
      • Fucked over streamers playing the game on release day because they were in an earlier timezome than japan…
      • Fucked over creators playing their games with an emulator.
      • Fucked over creators on all platforms in general for literally no reason.
      • Took down many MANY fan projects because they could.
    • They got mad at event organisers and pulled out last minute because the organisers used a mod to allow internet multiplayer, which caused the official Smash tourney to be cancelled during covid…

    meanwhile Valve:

    • makes the hardware as open as possible:
      • also literally wrote proton
      • also feel free to use any input device to play games
      • also your game console is a fully functional computer you can do whatever the fuck you want with.
      • also, your screen broke? Here, let me help you fix it.
    • charges reasonable amounts:
      • 30% from the developer is industry standard
      • has frequent sales
      • orange box costs like a quid on sale and the lastest halflife costs about 20 on sale.
    • you can “return” games if you don’t like them.
    • first class customer service.
    • got a guy arrested for hacking and leaking their source code, which is fair.
    • allows and enourages modding.
    • massive supporter and contributor of tournaments of their games
    • allows the use of their IPs in transformative ways (3rd party games, sfm, etc).

    but yeah. They’re clealy the same thing. no differences whatsoever.