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When a Good Cause Gets Tainted

Original Gamer: "This June was an important month for Nintendo. At E3, they stole the show by showing that they, and the Wii U, weren't dead in the water. Prior to them winning the hearts of gamers across the globe at E3, they were in some hot water over a game that came out just a few days before. That game, Tomodachi Life, became the center of a world of drama that was not only unnecessary, but also filled with misguided rage spurred by professional antagonizers who hijacked a meaningful cause."

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randomass1714359d ago (Edited 4359d ago )

I had to stop reading when the article mentioned the "patch" in the Japanese version. It's really unfortunate how misinformation gets spread around. There was no patch, it was players dressing up male Miis with female clothes and vice versa to give the illusion of same sex marriages in the game. Nintendo never patched out any same sex glitch because it never existed to begin with.

http://www.gamnesia.com/new...

edit: Back on topic, the cause was not initially a bad one. But I think it lost its credibility when it tried to make Nintendo look less like a bystander and more like a bad guy. Calling out Nintendo for homophobia was not the way to handle it because it simply wasn't true. We might as well call every game racist for not having any of the existing ethnic minorities, or some games sexist for not letting you play as a woman. Publishers and developers are not bad people for omitting things like that and it doesn't really take away from the core experience of the game.

armycore4359d ago

If I'm reading it right, the link you posted said that there was a glitch and it was patched.

randomass1714359d ago (Edited 4359d ago )

My mistake lol. According to that link there was a patch to fix a game breaking bug that coincided with the timing of screencaps showing same sex marriages in the game. I forgot that there WAS a patch, but not to remove same sex marriages specifically. According to the link I posted the glitch concerned "clothes, relationships, and more—for players' Miis, and ultimately would leave the game completely unplayable." So okay, it was indeed patched out. That was an inaccuracy and I should have remembered to mention that so thank you for bringing it up. :)

edit: Sorry for that mix up everyone. Bottom line is the game still wasn't patched specifically to get rid of same sex couples, but instead to remove a bug that broke the game that happened to include marrying male Miis together. It basically added some ugliness to what was otherwise a non-issue.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7758d ago (Edited 58d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS57d ago (Edited 57d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer83d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi82d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure81d ago (Edited 81d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer83d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot82d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box82d ago (Edited 82d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno82d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay82d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno81d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK81d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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