The Smash Bros. Community is done with Nintendo

Honestly, not entirely Nintendo's fault. They are REQUIRED to protect their IPs. Even if they don't want to take action, they have to. It sucks, but that's just how it is. That said, would be nice for Nintendo to perhaps release a port of Melee on Switch with online functionality. It would probably sell well, too. Using a ROM you downloaded somewhere, even if you own a physical copy of the game, is still against the law. It's bullshit, I know, and I wish that wasn't the case, but it is. If you download a rom, you are breaking the law, that's just a fact. The only way you can legally obtain a rom is to get it from a physical copy you own, directly, and even then, you can only legally do so for archiving purposes, not to play your console/handheld games on your computer(fun fact: Nintendo claims you can't even archive your games, but they are lying about that; it's the ONE thing you can do legally). Again, I think that's bullshit, but oh well. My point is that you can't say they aren't pirating the game when you don't know where they are getting the roms from. If these people are downloading the roms from somewhere, they are ABSOLUTELY pirating the game, no ifs, ands, or buts. If they are using their own extracted rom files, then they're merely infringing the copyright by using them to play the game instead of archiving(jn other words, it's not Fair Use). Still illegal. Either they're committing online piracy AND copyright infringement, or they're only commiting copyright infringement. So, obviously, knowing that, it makes sense for Nintendo to step in. Like I said before, they HAVE to protect their copyrighted works, or they risk losing said copyrights. This is a combination of flaws with copyright law, and weird limits that exist within the whole Fair Use arguement. It's shitty, and it certainly MAKES Nintendo look like they're a bunch of evil asshats, and sometimes they aren't the best when it comes to... certain business practices at times. But it ultimately isn't their fault, aside from not seeing a clear demand for a port of Melee with online features. Wanna blame ol' Ninty for something? Go with that, not their cease & desist. They didn't have a choice in that respect. It's pretty clear that "The Big House" was breaking the law. It's a shame that what they were doing IS against the law, but it 100% is. Can't deny that. Just wanted to clear that up. Sorry about the long post. (^^)/)

I don't care about Nintendo at all, but that is a major dick move. I'm just here for Conor, and of course Zach's cat.

Corporations should basically lose all rights to an IP rights or claims to a game or franchise if they haven't provably been working on or have sold a product utilizing that copyright in the last 5-10 years. Because that's why copyright laws exist, so the rights holders can make official products using it without having to compete with a thousand of knockoffs using their own brand names and art, etc. But if they're not selling it anymore, that becomes a moot point. Company's should no get to own these things in perpetuity. In an obscure example, Activation-Blizzard owns the IP rights to Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, a game sold 17 years ago, that they have not used since. The actual original creator of the IP who was publishing under Activision at the time expressed interest in making a sequel despite the games mediocre sales, but Activision wasn't interested. He then offered to BUY BACK his own IP from Activision so he could work on it with his own company using his own money, and Activision just refused. And they sat on it. And they haven't used that IP in a single product or likely even promotion since. That's fucking criminal, or it ought to be. This is an original setting with a lot of work put into it, that Activision has no interest or desire to continue using, but they get to hoard it like a dragon and prevent anyone else from ever using it including the people who fucking made it in the first place then seemingly no better reason than spite and the kind of shallow greed only satisfied by owning something others aren't allowed to have. In conclusion fuck Activision-Blizzard wait shit no I mean, in conclusion the IP and copyright laws currently on the books are an insane overreach, a travesty of creative suppression and a massive corporate overreach and need to be torn down to bedrock and reworked into something better fit for the modern digital information age. And also fuck Activision-Blizzard and Nintendo.

Smash also has one of the most toxic communities out there right now. Heck, I've seen it worse then the League community this past two years. It's shitty. If it's a fanbase that won't stop crying over a character reveal because it's not who they want, why would they even care to appease that group who is being assholes publicly and sending death threats to their employees. They don't owe the players anything at this point, even if the game is old. The Smash community is a bunch of children at this point, there's no reason they have to give into a tournament if they haven't been respected in return the past few years or so.