I’m really more bemused by the “pot, meet my friend kettle” aspect of this. One of the things they are complaining about is that they’re upset that someone else could use their work without their permission or any say on how that is used.

The fact that this is EXACTLY what those modders are doing THEMSELVES seems lost on them.

Modders complaining about not being able to dictate how their work is used and who is allowed to use them is NOT an angle that I’d think I’d ever see.

These arguments kinda fall flat because on a visceral level, it’s still “theft.” Just because you would have never bought a Ferarri doesn’t mean you should be able to take one and drive it around.

There’s really only three things that will get the Ninty Lawyers coming down on you like the hounds of hell:

Not for copyright, but it ABSOLUTELY can for trademark (ex. Kleenex or IBM).

Fuck Waluigi.  Bidoof for Smash.

It is actually a LOT cheaper to get an artist or artists to whip up recreations from a handful of screenshots than it is to get programmers to reverse engineer code from fragmented sources (like consumer side product).

It’s not quite as simple to “reverse-engineer” assets as you might think. It takes enough work that a group like SquareEnix clearly decided it was easier and cheaper for them to fudge it and assume that players weren’t going to care that much.

My guess is that they don’t even have the original assets for these games anymore, and they’re trying to kludge it together to make something that kinda sorta looks like the originals.

Guess what? That’s the “gamer market” now. They want to experience games with others, and actually get a little bit upset when the option for multi-player isn’t there.

Part of that problem is that he keeps trying to placate fans with these various endings, but when you have such a massive varied audience, it’s never going to work, and none of them are going to accept some sort of multi-universe multiple-timelines compromise.

I could see Nintendo doing something like advertising one of their other IPs in a game’s loading screen.  But yeah, it’d be a cold day in hell before they let third party advertisements sully their brand.

The irony being that by the end of it, gamers were hailing ME3's multiplayer as it’s saving grace.

I’d say Nintendo is more controlling than greedy. They’ll happily leave a ton of money on the table if they think they’d have to ease their iron grip on one of their IPs.

It did... but at this point, it’s more a convenient excuse.

Because that costs money for a hypothetical that may never arise.

You’d think if the last decade taught us anything, it’s that gamers can’t comprehend subtle, tongue-in-cheek hyperbole reliably.  We will, by and large, take anything we read literally.

Come on, everyone knows the real problem on Twitch are “thots” stealing views and subs from “honest streamers!”

A few reasons.