Oh, there's a ton to say about why Disney get a reputation for being a litigious nightmare but Nintendo gets more of a connection to beloved franchises in a lot of the gaming community, but that's precisely why they're a good counterexample to Steam when you're talking about branding associations.
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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoFuck Nintendo to death, after listening to the abominations they committed in the Team Xecuter episode of Darknet Diaries I’m never giving them another cent.
Luckily, Yuzu runs games infinitely better than my switch anyway, so that’s awesome.
MudMan@kbin.social 6 months ago
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Fuck Nintendo, but fuck Xecuter more.
Anyone that follows the homebrew and CFW scene knows that Xecuter repeatedly and unapologetically ripped off the GPL-licensed components in Atmosphere and its various bootloader stages. On top of violating the licenses of and stealing from the homebrew community, they also added console-bricking DRM to their CFW.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
ABSOLUTELY. But the guy whose life they fucked over had almost nothing to do with development. He was like a news site… guy.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh yeah, he was totally the fall guy and had his life ruined over it. He was made an example out of, while the rest and worst of them made bank and got away with it.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Absolute bullshit. But you’re totally right, Xecutor was mostly corrupt and shitty. I forgot about the switch bricking thing, what fuckery to do to people.