I mean, all things considered, he’s not exactly wrong about this:

This is all very scummy and worth writing about. I question whether a review of Cyberpunk 2077 is the right place to do it. People are looking for a review of the GAME, not the PUBLISHER.

Of course, the far bigger issue is that a loud proportion of Cyberpunk 2077 purchasers (and indeed any other big-name game) don’t want reviews at all. They want reassurance. They paid for this game nearly two years ago, for whatever illogical reason (“I’m supporting the massive multi-million dollar company!”),…

and another dumb question.....is a stallion still a male horse?

Put your money where your mouth is and fix Ultimate’s GD netcode!!! Let us not forget that Smash Bros was painfully, glaringly omitted from Evo Online (before it was canceled altogether) for not being stable enough to hose an official tournament. This might be forgivable, if not for the fact that Ultimate is the…

Looking the other way sets legal precedent that they won't protect their IP. It sucks, but that's how it works. 

What’s absurd about Nintendo doing what they’ve been doing all the time? With the amount of article about Nintendo sending a cease and desist to someone over some IP protection published on here, I really don’t se why would anyone at Kotaku would call this absurd. It’s an organization using an emulator to run a…

Even then there are valid business cases. I hate fan-game takedowns as much as the next guy, but *trademark* law in the US and globally is cutthroat. You either fight for your trademark or you become another xerox, escalator, or heroin.

Okay, just so we’re clear on what happened here. This is how it played out, right?

Mostly the point I came here to make! Reading Nintendo’s statement, it sounds like they don’t even care about slippi. They care that slippi requires Dolphin and that Dolphin requires dumped ROMS, which leads to the provenance issue you described above.

Really weird to paint Nintendo negatively for, ya know, protecting their copyright and IP. They told the organizers to not use an emulator, mods, and pirated copies of the game. The organizers said no. The organizers decided to cancel the event instead of continuing with just Ultimate.

This. Melee was released on the Gamecube in 2001. Only two weeks after the launch of the console. It had zero online functionality, and for the time, understandably so.

Wouldn’t “nonexistent” make more sense than “Subpar” here?

Well at least it was an ‘absurd’ reason instead of a ‘tournament players bad-touching minors’ reason that competitive Smash is known for.

His argument was good if he stopped at "when rules are wrong you fight them". Invoking a comparison to the civil rights movement loses a part of the argument.

His (relatively speaking) minor inconvenience with one company does not warrant comparisons to a time where someone could not ride the same bus with a white person. Billionaire and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney’s plight of not getting his way in court and then reaching for “when the rules were wrongful, it was…

“i would have far more good will for him and what he’s trying to do if he just said less...”

His arguments are fine, but I take issue with him grabbing any moral high ground - let alone comparing to civil rights. Ash said it - “when in truth you are a billion dollar company trying to pay less money to a trillion dollar company.”

This is 100% about money.  Epic is trying to take a moral highground to win public…

arguments like this: “taken their 30% payment processing fees and passed the cost along to our customers” are bad arguments. You don’t “pass” fees along, the customer decides the price they pay. Aka they buy it or they don’t, games aren’t a necessity. Epic wants a piece of that 30% and they’re trying to make it out…

I get his overall message, but the way he chose to make it betrays how far out of touch he is with any world that doesn’t involve his wealthy white male privilege.