#FreeMelee and #FreeSplatoon

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I think you are aware of what happened but if you aren't, I'll explain.

A few weeks ago, Nintendo shut down the Big House Melee tournament which used a tool called Slippi which allows online play, and as you know, we're currently under lockdown. They said Big House supposedly used "Illegal copies of the game and used a mod of the game" which is actually fake, everyone used a legal copy of the game and Slippi is not a mod. Melee fans use the hashtag #FreeMelee to show the scummy acts of the company.

Recently, for the NintendoVS Splatoon tournament, teams used #FreeMelee as part of their names to show support for the Smash community. Nintendo, in a hateful response, cancelled the live stream because they didn't want to show the hashtag. Now, they have #FreeMelee and #FreeSplatoon. In response, fans organized their own tournament which raised more than $28000 in a single day, $25k for the price pool (which NintendoVS didn't have), and the rest for charity.

This story is yet to be concluded.

#FreeMelee #FreeSplatoon
 
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Nintendo isn't looking good here.
 
Nintendo has gone a bit too far here, despite not playing Splatoon, I feel like if it wasn't a mod, then Nintendo shouldn't had took it down.
 
Nintendo is known for being a scummy company at times, hell, they even took down (temporarily) the biggest Smash event of all time!
 
Trab The Halls said:
Nintendo has gone a bit too far here, despite not playing Splatoon, I feel like if it wasn't a mod, then Nintendo shouldn't had took it down.
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Honestly, even if it was a mod, who cares? I've never seen any game developer be as hostile toward the modding community as Nintendo and it makes no sense.
 
I really think Nintendo is wrong. They're so stubborn they can't think that this event can make Ultimate and Melee sell (even) better!
 
I think one of the reasons they don't wanna be affiliated with the Melee community is because of the overall.... reputation of the community.
 
they took away the only way to play melee in tournaments during the pandemic! lemme elaborate! and then ever since then they keep making more and more stupid things its almost comical lmao but also sad
 
Instead of collaborating with us, which will make us want to buy their games and so and so, they constantly hate us, making us hate them.

We don't fit in Nintendo's wallet.
 
What is happening at Nintendo isn't the fault of their developers and studios, It is the fault of the higher ups who keep the money.