This is too much, this has to stop. Can’t we do anything??
Don’t buy anything from a Japanese video game company.
No that vote with your wallet shit has gotten old and crusty. I can’t think of a single company that has worked for. There needs to be legal consequences for this, fight fire with fire
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen some instances of voting with your wallet having desired outcomes.
Hold on, you can sell made up pokemon that are slightly edited for $84 a pop?
What?
He’s selling modified game save files it sounds like. No Pokémon were hurt or genetically modified in this man’s pursuit of profit.
Ah so he was commiting temporal anomalies and risking a subspace collapse from tampering with multiversal duplication.
5 years in prison sounds too lenient (/j)
You can buy jpegs for 100k and sell them for 84 bucks too
Urls of Jpegs lol. Not the actual image.
Unfair Competition Prevention Act
How is selling modified save data is unfairly competitive?
Because Nintendo wanted to sell those upgrades instead of someone patching them into the save file?
It’s really insane if this story is true.
You use a program to create a file. You modify the file that you created with the program using a different program. Company sues you claiming they own the file that you created with the program you legally purchased.
I wonder what tool chain Nintendo uses internally. Could Notepad++ sue Nintendo for modifying a text file created by Notepad++ without always using Notepad++? They’re unfairly cutting Notepad++ out of competition by using vim on txt files originally created with Notepad++ then profiting on the results by selling games that used the modified txt files after compiling them into games.
Japanese copyright law is literally insane. It’s simultaneously completely lax and unapplied (doujin, i.e. derivative fan works) and so constrictive you can’t breathe.
Competition is unfair to monopolies, so this law prevents competition. /j
Next week: Paco Guttierez, age 9, arrested and sued for $200 million after building a cardboard Nintendo game because his family couldn’t afford the real thing
It’s a good thing they got that scoundrel off the streets before anyone got hurt… /s
Disgusting criminal scum!!! /s
Daily reminder that IP law is fucking stupid.
Nintendo please stop. I really liked you
The first mistake was liking a company.
They honestly used to be really solid. I’ve been there since the NES. During the GameCube days my house burned down. I had happened to order a cable and then it, of course, got sent back to them. I had completely forgotten about this and they called me to ask if the note was correct that the package was undeliverable because the house being gone.
They sent me a new GameCube and five games of my choosing.
You’re confusing Nintendo, the company, with the people who work at Nintendo (minus the corporativist scum). They absolutely have some of the best game devs in the world. They also suck and degrade the gaming sphere on a regular basis.
Ofcourse they have their inhouse developers but we musn’t forget the developers at other companies that helped make their systems great (Konami, Capcom, Sunsoft, Hudson, HAL Laboratory, Rare, Argonaut, DMA/Rockstar, etc
Funny how most of these companies are only a shadow of their former selves, with most of the old guard leaving to form their own studios and focus on good games instead of cashgrabs. I absolutely recommend playing Bloodstained – Igarashi is a genius when it comes to MetroidVania
Japan is not the Japan we think it is.
I think it’s a very safe place because it’s nearly a fascist dictatorship.
With a near 99% conviction rate, it’s pretty safe…because everyone is afraid of even being accused of stepping out of line.But the devil is always in the details, isn’t it? Unless, that is, you stop reading as soon as you hear what you want to hear, and don’t go any further in the article…
According to Professor Ryo Ogiso of Chou University, prosecutors defer prosecution in 60% of the cases they receive, and conclude the remaining 30% or so of cases in summary trials. This summary trial is a trial procedure in which cases involving a fine of 1,000,000 yen or less are examined on the basis of documents submitted by the public prosecutor without a formal trial if there is no objection from the suspect. Only about 8% of cases are actually prosecuted, and this low prosecution rate is the reason for Japan’s high conviction rate.
A racist xenophobic country that flattens nails and oppresses people for the benefit of the elite due to its hyper hierarchical culture?
Flattens nails? What, to make them difficult to use with a screwdriver?
Not sure why you’d use a screwdriver with a nail…
When I was in school, I bought a Gameboy XPloder for 80 bucks and cheated Mews in Pokemon Red. I sold the Mews to everyone in school for 5 bucks a pop and made back way more than I invested. I don’t care if Nintendo finds out because I was 12 when comitting this heinous crime. As a bonus, I also never taxed those business profits. Checkmate capitalists.
Checkmate capitalists.
You didn’t beat capitalists; you joined them!
Don’t be ridiculous, he seized the means of Mew production.
Holy shit man, Lex Luthor over here!
monocle pops off face in shock
I also related more with Team Rocket as a child.
So, you were goofy and always screwed everything up?
