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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: archie4208 on July 09, 2013, 07:11:14 PM

Title: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: archie4208 on July 09, 2013, 07:11:14 PM: http://kotaku.com/nintendo-wont-let-top-fighting-game-tournament-stream-724293474?rev=1373410732

(Sorry for the Kotaku link, SRK is down right now)

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Regrettably, we’ve just been informed by Nintendo of America Inc. that we do not have permission to broadcast Super Smash Bros. Melee for Evo 2013.

New Smash game coming in the future? Let's not try to hype it up whatsoever! :derp
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: thisismyusername on July 09, 2013, 07:31:45 PM: Not like most of Evo will care. Only Smashboards will be the one up in arms about the whole ordeal and they'll probably ruin their chances of returning next year like they did the first time they were at Evo. :lol
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Post by: nudemacusers on July 09, 2013, 07:38:15 PM: please understand
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Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: archie4208 on July 09, 2013, 07:39:52 PM: Nintendo understands the internet, but blocking the Smash stream and their Youtube shenanigans makes me think they want to bury their head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: thisismyusername on July 09, 2013, 07:48:36 PM: I dunno. Have you seen how bad the Smash Community can be at times? I don't think Nintendo wants to promote a Gamecube game with that community for their new title.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 09, 2013, 09:14:50 PM: FANDREX EXPLAIN
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on July 09, 2013, 09:16:12 PM: Quote from: archie4208 on July 09, 2013, 07:39:52 PM
Nintendo understands the internet, but blocking the Smash stream and their Youtube shenanigans makes me think they want to bury their head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.

Nintendo still has that mentality of the 80s and 90s where they have iron fisted control over their content. What they don't understand is that fewer and fewer people give a fuck about their content these days.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Purple Filth on July 09, 2013, 09:25:54 PM: Basically killed the main reason its an EVO flagship game (Whats the sense if you can't fucking watch it and get hype)
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Tasty on July 09, 2013, 09:48:06 PM: http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-allowing-for-smash-bros-melee-stream-at-evo-2013-after-all/

:miyamoto
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Purple Filth on July 09, 2013, 09:49:19 PM: Quote from: Andrex on July 09, 2013, 09:48:06 PM
http://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-allowing-for-smash-bros-melee-stream-at-evo-2013-after-all/

Well that was quick :lol

Now back to the hype
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Tasty on July 09, 2013, 09:53:52 PM: I have no misconceptions about what the Wii U is, lol.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: cool breeze on July 09, 2013, 09:56:06 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RvNS7JfcMM
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Trent Dole on July 09, 2013, 10:27:31 PM: Well, Ninty, you quit being feggits cause your fans called you out on your bullshit, good job, one which puts you on the same level as MS with the Xboneighty. :teehee
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Shaka Khan on July 09, 2013, 10:30:14 PM: So in other words, everything is back the way it was yesterday only Nintendo reminded us yet again of how backwards and out of touch they can be. Good show.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Akala on July 09, 2013, 10:30:52 PM: would have been better with pretty much any other game. watching smash spergs is like watching...something meh.

may watch the finals, but blerg. was more hilarious earlier.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 09, 2013, 10:31:07 PM: Quote from: Andrex on July 09, 2013, 09:53:52 PM
I have no misconceptions about what the Wii U is, lol.

Yet oh so many when it comes to Nintendo.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: thisismyusername on July 09, 2013, 10:37:14 PM: Quote from: Akala on July 09, 2013, 10:30:52 PM
would have been better with pretty much any other game. watching smash spergs is like watching...something meh.

Yep, disappointing. I'd rather have King of Fighters over Smash any day.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: originalz on July 09, 2013, 10:50:12 PM: I can only imagine the outcry they got, I mean this is both Nintendo fans and hardcore Smash fans (and ones who want Smash to be recognized as a legit fighter), two of the most annoying subsections of internet fandom. The complaining must have been unreal.
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Post by: Tasty on July 09, 2013, 10:57:33 PM: Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on July 09, 2013, 10:31:07 PM
Quote from: Andrex on July 09, 2013, 09:53:52 PM
I have no misconceptions about what the Wii U is, lol.

Yet oh so many when it comes to Nintendo.

Show me the error of my ways, Old Guy-san.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Damian79 on July 09, 2013, 11:00:55 PM: It wasnt probably due to the outcry, rather a miscommunication from Nintendo at the original message, it was too quick to be otherwise.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Damian79 on July 09, 2013, 11:10:05 PM: I see.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Tasty on July 09, 2013, 11:11:53 PM: Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on July 09, 2013, 11:03:05 PM
Nah, it was probably some cowboy in legal, and as soon as his bosses caught wind, they went in and corrected it.

That's what I figured too.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Oblivion on July 10, 2013, 12:59:36 AM: I'm still trying to figure this out. What was the original problem with just streaming the game to begin with?
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 10, 2013, 01:14:16 AM: This is like one of those things you look like an idiot for getting wrong on the first try, even if you fix it later. Free marketing, buzz, desirable demographic outreach...nope, fuck all that!
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Sho Nuff on July 10, 2013, 01:15:39 AM: Quote from: Oblivion on July 10, 2013, 12:59:36 AM
I'm still trying to figure this out. What was the original problem with just streaming the game to begin with?

Infringing on copyright of glorious Nippon softo
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Diunx on July 10, 2013, 01:38:59 AM: Good, more space for real fighting games.
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on July 10, 2013, 01:43:44 AM: Quote from: Diunx on July 10, 2013, 01:38:59 AM
Good, more space for real fighting games.

this would be a nice derail on GAF
Title: Re: Nintendo blocking Smash Bros. Melee stream at EVO. Please understand.
Post by: Human Snorenado on July 10, 2013, 01:59:35 AM: Quote from: Phoenix Dark on July 10, 2013, 01:43:44 AM
Quote from: Diunx on July 10, 2013, 01:38:59 AM
Good, more space for real fighting games.

this would be a nice derail on GAF 6 years ago, before all vestiges of humor were bleached from that horrible, sterile shithole

:mynicca