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Nintendo pledges "action" over inappropriate use of its characters so players "not made to feel uncomfortable"

UPDATE 7/7/24: Nintendo's transcript of the question is reported accurately below per the company's own translation, bu…

^{Tom Phillips (Eurogamer.net)}

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nanoUFO

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Here comes the Nintedo IP Karen again.

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Carlos Solís

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Let me guess, will they put Minus8 to bankruptcy as an example?

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Feathercrown

in reply to Carlos Solís hace 11 meses

That cat is NOT dancing

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RightHandOfIkaros

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

And I pledge to never buy a Nintendo product again.

I can't believe I am actually saying this, but Nintendo, you make me wish I could cause more financial damage to your company than I am legally able to.

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Zahille7

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

What, those porn SFMs of Mario and other Nintendo characters fucking each other's brains out are gonna get DMCAd?

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Lemminary

Unknown parent hace 11 meses

I used to buy their stuff for years and also stopped over this shit. They've fallen from grace and smacked their face on every branch on the way down.

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Imagine trying to fight Rule 34 of the Internet. That's a losing battle right from the get-go. There's a reason for the rule and a reason why it'll never stop or be stopped so long as the Internet exists.

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KoboldCoterie

in reply to Dizzy Devil Ducky hace 11 meses

I really hope this leads to a drastic, many-fold increase in the amount of Rule 34 content of Nintendo characters. I hope people start tagging them on Twitter with it all. Nothing would make me happier.

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imecth

in reply to KoboldCoterie hace 11 meses

This would only serve to advertise their ips, just look at Overwatch. If you really want to fuck with a corporation, the best way is to forget about them.

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sugar_in_your_tea

in reply to imecth hace 11 meses

Yup, if you knew nothing about the game and only went to certain places on the internet, you'd think none of the Overwatch characters wear clothes.

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Microplasticbrain

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

God I fucking hate Nintendo, my first system was the 64, i had all their shit from the gameboy pocket until advanced. My friends try to get me to buy a switch and im like fuck that. If a company was the living embodiment of an asshole it would be nintendo, sometimes they put out good shit but it always smells.

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VerseAndVermin

in reply to Microplasticbrain hace 11 meses

I'm a PC player but I always wonder when people have this take. I dislike, hugely, their treatment of fans in the preservation space. However, as a company they seem to not do big layoffs, rarely buy companies or IP, and have a history of leadership falling on their swords (financially) during hard times to keep their employees.

I don't dislike them as a whole because of those elements that are dead at large.

I could be wrong, I'm not deeply knowledgable outside of a handful of articles over the years.

I would rank Microsoft way worse though and I used to be in their ecosystem as a big fan. Biggest pusher of owning nothing.

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Microplasticbrain

in reply to VerseAndVermin hace 11 meses

Credit where its due sure, but im mostly talking about how they treat their fans.

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sugar_in_your_tea

in reply to VerseAndVermin hace 11 meses

I totally agree. I think Nintendo is a fantastic company in terms of:

high quality games
frequent use of their IP
good treatment of staff

They're pretty awful when it comes to protecting their IP (emulators, merch, etc), but in terms of doing the actual company bits, they're one of the best.

I hate their legal side, and I'm not a fan of their pricing, but I like pretty much everything else about them.

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Scrubbles

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Oh yeah because this stuff is just everywhere on the internet /s.

You have to go looking for this stuff. No one feels uncomfortable by it because the only times people would see it is if they're googling it or already a part of a community. This is just Nintendo smashing the dmca button because their lawyers are bored

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Cris

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

I feel like a lot of people are missing the context that this was prompted by a Mario cosplayer sending inappropriate messages to a minor 😅

Nintendo is dogshit about their IP, but like I can't really fault them for being upset that someone used the family friendly nature of one of their properties to facilitate an inappropriate interaction with a child. If I were Nintendo I'd be pretty unhappy about that too

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AnUnusualRelic

in reply to Cris hace 11 meses

A hairy plumber that spends all his time stalking a princess is "family friendly"?

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Cris

in reply to AnUnusualRelic hace 11 meses

Yes, the cartoon plumber man who tries to rescue his girlfriend from the cartoon dino turtle monster thing is family friendly 😅

He's a character from a game thats widely popular with children.

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Jo Miran

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Nintendo called her Princess Peach. Rule 34 on 🍑 is on them.

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THCDenton

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Streisand Effect is gonna introduce so many to Waluigi

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Cris

Unknown parent hace 11 meses

Interesting, I actually didn't know that, thanks for the additional context! I still find it frustrating but understanding the issue better is always a plus

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I_Has_A_Hat

in reply to Lemminary hace 11 meses

I don't think their quality has slipped at all.

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Evotech

in reply to nanoUFO hace 11 meses

Ai has definitely made this situation a bit more problematic for them. There's mutiple entire chracter models trained on only like, Zelda and mixed with other models, well. Let's just say Zelda will do whatever

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sugar_in_your_tea

in reply to Evotech hace 11 meses

I really need to get a VR headset. 😀

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Evotech

in reply to sugar_in_your_tea hace 11 meses

Idk if there's much AI VR content yet

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sugar_in_your_tea

Unknown parent hace 11 meses

Not Sonic, but they have an exclusive games publishing agreement with Gamefreak for Pikachu. So yeah, Chris Chan's goose is cooked. Well, more than it already is.