By broadcasting spoilers and making playing the game pointless.
He literally could have contributed to lost sales from potential buyers watching the games before they were released.
By allowing them to be better informed of what they would otherwise have purchased?
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
There’s never a point in playing a game if you can’t beat it the same day it is released, by that stupid argument.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
When you play a game on release date that wasn’t leaked, spoilers and stuff surface on the internet at an average pace. Players who wait a long time to play the game will have this similar experience.
Leaked content spreads like wildfire as the posters know it’ll most likely be taken down, and well, streisand effect. All communities for the game will be flooded with untagged spoilers before the game is even out. I bet that streamer was basically speedrunning the games to leak as much as possible, which most players who just enjoy the game won’t do.
Either way, the money asked for is a lot, yes, however pirating and broadcasting unreleased games is a very stupid crime.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
You can avoid these kind of spoilers without much difficulty.
I still don’t even know what game he was playing when he got caught.
gamer@lemm.ee 13 hours ago
This argument is nonsense. Why don’t they go after regular review channels and streamers? What difference does it make that the game is streamed before release vs after?
Nintendo isn’t your friend. Every minute you waste defending their honor online can instead be spent finding real friends IRL
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Before release is before everyone gets a chance at playing it themselves. This person also isn’t a professional reviewer or journalist so their content isn’t beneficial to the consumer either. Before also releases spoilers that will be near impossible to avoid once they’re out. And what’s the point of playing the hot new game if you already know the story?
I call Nintendo my angel of salvation and the mother I never had, but I’m just being realistic. Streaming (actually) pirated new games actually does cause damage. Most likely not as much as Nintendo is suing for, but damages nonetheless.
If they were suing for streaming Super Mario World romhacks, especially in 2025 where SMW is old enough to be a dad or the United States President, and is NOT being actively sold, then yeah, I’d disagree. Even if one were to pull “but it’s on Switch Online” or some silly nonsense.
gamer@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
I call Nintendo my angel of salvation and the mother I never had, but I’m just being realistic.
Upvoting just for this.
echodot@feddit.uk 14 hours ago
Well yeah, that will be their argument and legally it’s a good argument.