[KaiserBlue]

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Originally Posted by gashatfreak

...okay I'm lost, what's happening with Nintendo? Some context please.

Well, two things are currently hitting the fan, the one im allowed to talk about is nintendo canceling a tournament for smash ultimate because they used a mod. Not a mod to alter the game, but one to fix the lag. The program was ironically named slippy, after the frog from starfox, and its creator worked full time all this year to finish it. What it did was use a type of netcode, called rollback netcode, to completely eliminate lag in matches, and had to be modded in. A lot of legit games use rollback netcode, but not Nintendo.

The controversy is not on them taking down the smash ultimate tournament, but going a step further and also taking down the smash melee tournament by the same group. This group is highly regarded and their tourneys the highlight of the melee community.

That incited rage in the melee community, which was pretty much built on quality of life mods for the game and online tourneys. They started the #freemeleee and then things really hit the fan when Nintendo canceled a splatoon 2 livestream tournament because the teams showed solidarity, through their names, with the smash community. 30% of the names referenced the smash cancellation.

And then another incident, which i can't talk about, Nintendo recently caused which put them in even deeper hot water. So they're pretty much being blasted on all cylinder by the gaming community at large atm.