[KaiserBlue]

I mean, the whole #save melee is non-political and not against guidlines as far as i know.

I don't get why Nintendo shutdown the tournament. I get they feel threatened because rollback netcode makes their delay based netcode look like garbage.

I guess more than anything, they're scared people will learn that they can do better, but don't want to, because they're cheap. Now they'v pretty much become full-blown totalitarian assholes who crackdown on anyone who tries to externally improve the experience or publicly defy them. Even going so far as to silence the splatoon community because their solidarity with the smash community, on a livestream, would make them look pretty shitty. Canceling it made them look even shittier.

Besides the netcode, i don't think they were employing any other mods, so it was a quality of experience thing. That makes it even more egregious that they charge so much for online, but deliver a discount store experience. Any other company would recognize their failings, maybe shut down ultimate (but not melee), and then either hire the guys to fix their own online, or improve it themselves. They've done stuff like this plenty of times after their online launch, still no improvements. So pretty much maintain systematic superiority by killing any and all alternatives, while doing nothing yourselves.

To kill melee was a step to far, its already legacy software that Nintendo has not done or plans to do anything with. To cancel that, is like a slap in the face to fans of the brand. There was no need, thats like if microsoft shut down OG Doom servers because of IP. Their IP, as well as their profits were unaffected by legacy users of melee, on the contrary, it did a good job boosting smashs' position in the professional fighting community, and thereby the wider gaming community. To kill that is an assault on your customers and the gaming community as a whole.