I’m actually surprised to see how many people want Samus in Fortnite. I just don’t understand, what does it matter? If you want to see your favorite character in something, you can go consume their media. What about shooting a gun and doing a dance makes it special?
I can’t kill you and teabag you as Samus in Metroid or as Kratos in God of War. Master Chief is the one that doesn’t make sense. You can kill and teabag each other as Master Chief in Halo.
So Epic games makes all that money because people want to teabag as their favorite characters?
Man we live in wild times 🙂
you can go consume their media
Can they, though? Can they?
Ok so Nintendo are definetaly anti-consumer but not wanting one of their characters in fortnite isn’t, acting like it is, is just entitlement.
As someone who doesn’t play Fortnite, this is good. Let my emotionally destroyed girl be smashin‘ with dread.
Honestly, if i created anything and cared about it I’d want to keep it away from forknife too.
I know half of everything is already in Fortnite, but not everything has to be in it. Nintendo is the one making the biggest loss on this, and I doubt anyone is going to lose sleep over it.
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Copyright ruins everything.
This would be trademark, not copyright.
And trademark is way better imo than copyright. Trademark is all about protecting against fraud, copyright is about protecting against access to content.
I’m totally happy with the trademark law we have, but I’d like to see copyright and patent law severely modified and their durations dramatically shortened (like 15 years for copyright, 5-7 for patents).
Common Nintendo L, proving to be the most anti-consumer company in gaming.
For this?! Hahaha
Ah, Nintendo fans.
Yes, this. Nintendo needs to stop locking their decent to good software behind awfully underpowered hardware. Its anti-consumer, and this is part of that. They wanted it to be like Rocket League, where some consumers can only access some content because they paid for the plastic box with Nintendos name on it. I dont care what the content is, that’s anti-consumer, plain and simple.
You’re not entitled to play Samus in Fortnite. Nintendo owns the IP and they get to set the rules on how their characters and trademarks are used.
Is it technically anti-consumer? I guess? However, if you’re going to stretch the idea of anti-consumerism that far, then literally any form of exclusivity is anti-consumer. You could argue that remasters are anti-consumer because people have to pay for the game a second time, regardless of how much work was put into said remaster. You could even argue that it’s anti-consumerist for an artist to pick and choose who they work for.
Nintendo is not obligated to share or license their IP to anyone.
At the end of the day, it’s their loss. They could have made buckets of cash from licensing Samus for Fortnite, but decided not to. That’s their choice. They can make that decision. They are not obligated to share or license their IP any more than you’re required to share or license the macaroni art you did in kindergarten.
You are not entitled to play Samus in Fortnite.
I’m not much of a fan of Metroid. I have never played Fortnite.
I think this is a dumb thing for Nintendo to do, because it’s going to do two things among a fairly young gaming demographic. It’s going to send the message that Nintendo properties are absolutely not for having fun with. And it’s going to cut off a perfectly free source of advertising.
“Hey cool skin, who is that?” “Samus, from Metroid.” “Metroid? What’s that?” “A sci-fi series from Nintendo, it’s pretty cool.”
Now, Nintendo had a girl swatted for drawing Pokemon fan art, so I’m never going to be a customer of theirs ever again. I can never forgive Nintendo for that. So.
I feel like you’re both right. It’s not anti-consumer in the sense of ethics and actual consumerism (you know, the normal definition); but it is kind of a fuck you to the consumers of Nintendo’s stuff. They certainly seem like they actively hate their fans with the choices they make, and this is no exception. Especially since even if they got their way, people would still be pissed.
