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Post by Dub H on Dec 7, 2020 0:50:43 GMT -5
And now for a third PR/fandom snafu for Nintendo, they've sent a cease & desist to the guy who was making custom sets of Joy-Cons for massive, and sadly late, Nintendo fan Etika's fanbase, the JoyCon Boyz, presumably because these custom shells did straight up have the term "JoyCon" on them. Edit: Nintendo's actions of late are making it starkly clear, if they are not the ones directly asking you for the money, they don't want you to. Which, yes, is within their rights as a company, it is their products and IPs after all, but outside of say Disney, there are few companies who behave this damn draconian about it. Just to clarify,this was back in semptember and dude used fullblown logo and trademark of the joycons. Like at least dont be dumb,dont use the official logo,pretty sure he could have changed then and keep out of trouble since third party controllers are way common and legal. This honestly feels more like he is using Etika's and the controversy as a combo of armor/marketing unless I'm missing something. Like I know Nintendo does some pretty f***ed up stuff with their legal rights,but this just seemed like something easily avoidable.This is STILL easily avoidable as simple as removing the Joycon trademark.
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Post by eJm on Dec 7, 2020 4:05:25 GMT -5
And now for a third PR/fandom snafu for Nintendo, they've sent a cease & desist to the guy who was making custom sets of Joy-Cons for massive, and sadly late, Nintendo fan Etika's fanbase, the JoyCon Boyz, presumably because these custom shells did straight up have the term "JoyCon" on them. Edit: Nintendo's actions of late are making it starkly clear, if they are not the ones directly asking you for the money, they don't want you to. Which, yes, is within their rights as a company, it is their products and IPs after all, but outside of say Disney, there are few companies who behave this damn draconian about it. Just to clarify,this was back in semptember and dude used fullblown logo and trademark of the joycons. Like at least dont be dumb,dont use the official logo,pretty sure he could have changed then and keep out of trouble since third party controllers are way common and legal. This honestly feels more like he is using Etika's and the controversy as a combo of armor/marketing unless I'm missing something. Like I know Nintendo does some pretty f***ed up stuff with their legal rights,but this just seemed like something easily avoidable.This is STILL easily avoidable as simple as removing the Joycon trademark. Yeah, if he was using logos...like, come on, man, you’re doing a good service at the very least, don’t be an idiot about it and act like you’re an official product when you’re not. I can go into my local game stores and get Switch controllers and they probably at least have no logos is anything. At least with knockoff toys, the consumer is at least wise to know that it looks like total crap most of the time. I don’t want to be defending big companies at all but man, some of this stuff is just so easy to do to not get their wrath. Other stuff like trademarking music or anything Twitch/YouTube does are both their fault and failings of a messed up copyright system nobody seems to want to fix.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2020 4:06:43 GMT -5
Hell, if you want to do that just put the Boyz part and let the Joycons speak for themselves.
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Post by eJm on Dec 7, 2020 4:23:08 GMT -5
Hell, if you want to do that just put the Boyz part and let the Joycons speak for themselves. Looking at it myself... Jeez that logo looks way too much like the Switch one for my liking. F***, I don’t even like defending Nintendo this much but what did you expect to happen doing that? Like you said, just have the Boyz part and we wouldn’t be talking about this.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 7, 2020 8:10:23 GMT -5
Part of the root problem here is that after a few dubious decisions in the past few years, is that even things like the custom JoyCon business which Nintendo is legally and logically right? A lot of the public is not really inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt or look at in rational manner because the perception is that the company has not engendered nearly enough goodwill to deserve it.
The response from a lot of people to stuff like this will be a sentiment roughly akin to "Well I certainly won't feel bad about emulating or pirating Nintendo products in the future". Whether that's right or not is irrelevant, there's more than enough resentment there to get people to feel that way.
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 8, 2020 14:22:31 GMT -5
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Dec 9, 2020 15:12:24 GMT -5
So about the whole Etika/JoyCons situation:
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Post by eJm on Dec 9, 2020 15:14:35 GMT -5
So about the whole Etika/JoyCons situation: Jesus. How are there so many “both sides are assholes” situations involving Nintendo right now? Because goddamn, dude...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 4:44:58 GMT -5
Really hope we get some news on the 3D World port soon. I'm leaning toward getting it, since between the increased speed and the online play that's my two biggest problems with the game addressed right there, but I really want to know what the new stuff actually is and the game's out in just two months.
My biggest hope is more playable characters (which'd probably be Toadette and Daisy since they could reuse existing skeletons, but I like those two more than their counterparts anyway so I'd be happy for it), but would also be happy for new levels or some kind of playing as Bowser mode or something. What I'm dreading is if it's just like the second half of 3D Land where it's a bunch of barely remixed versions of existing levels.
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Post by eJm on Dec 10, 2020 9:01:39 GMT -5
Let the speculation BEGIN!
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 10, 2020 9:08:41 GMT -5
Being announced at the Game Awards and not just a Nintendo YouTube reveal, I think it's gonna be a bigger name than the last two (Sorry Min-Min, love to play ya, but ARMS isn't that big a deal in the long run).
I'm still thinking it's going to be Crash.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 10, 2020 9:10:23 GMT -5
I'll guess Dante or maybe even Dovahkiin as a pseudo wild card.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 10, 2020 9:11:50 GMT -5
I have all these exciting possibilities in my mind... but watch it be some random Fire Emblem Character I've never heard of before today.
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 10, 2020 9:58:49 GMT -5
I have all these exciting possibilities in my mind... but watch it be some random Fire Emblem Character I've never heard of before today. There's speculation that Byleth was supposed to be revealed at last year's Game Awards but was held off either due to not being finished or that Nintendo figured their reveal would go over like a lead balloon at such a big ceremony. Hard to know one way or another, but I'll bet tonight's character is one of some significance given the platform (though I'm hoping its closer to a Sora than a Jonesy in types of popularity).
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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Dec 10, 2020 10:53:28 GMT -5
In non Smash related news Double Dragon Neon is getting a Switch port later this month:
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Post by chrom on Dec 10, 2020 11:19:21 GMT -5
I can already tell who it won't be.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 10, 2020 11:46:27 GMT -5
I can already tell who it won't be. Waluigi
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Post by Raskovnik on Dec 10, 2020 11:49:24 GMT -5
It’s me. And I’m just so excited.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 12:27:16 GMT -5
In non Smash related news Double Dragon Neon is getting a Switch port later this month: YES! DD Neon is a delight.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 12:54:50 GMT -5
This actually kind of annoys me because I want to see who it is but last year was the one time I watched the Game Awards and it was an absolutely miserable experience. Now I'm not sure if I want to do that again or if I want to try and find the trailer later without being spoiled on who it is.
Though I'm guessing given the venue it's not going to be someone I especially care for. A lot of the super mainstream picks like Crash and Sora I'm pretty massively meh on.
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