LogFAQs > #948018470

Nintendo has a bad history with the handling of Smash tournaments, and has made some questionable-at-best business decisions lately. But the Melee mod thing? Meh. Its commercially benefitting from a mod that probably breaks the game license and requires illegal copies. As far as I understand it, Nintendo is just acting like any other company in that legal situation, its not really an oh Nintendo thing like the limited run mass market games or their initial opposition to Smash being at tournaments at all. This just seems like standard practice. Now you could absolutely say that this legal framework is wrong and Id probably agree, but this just seems like a normal decision under current rules to me.

The thing is, if the Melee community just folded into the regular Smash community like it should have long ago, none of this would have ever happened. It would also probably reduce toxicity because being this underground thing to the side of the main community is a breeding ground for that. So yeah, Nintendo have done some bad things but for this? Just let Melee die already.

Also, comparisons to real people are usually very dumb, but Melee really is the Trump of video games, huh.

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