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To be fair, they're cancelling events because they're using emulation to play Melee. They've previously allowed it at events. Not saying that's necessarily the
by vlunkr 6y ago
To be fair, they're cancelling events because they're using emulation to play Melee. They've previously allowed it at events. Not saying that's necessarily the right choice, but it's important to get the facts straight.
Also, there's been lots of serious issues with the Melee community leaders recently with sexual misconduct, so it's also possible that Nintendo just wants to distance themselves from the whole scene.
- CarVac 6y agoThey canceled the stream for a Splatoon 2 tournament because the players had names supportive of Melee. And the sexual misconduct was mainly in the Ultimate scene. Very few prominent Melee players were involved.
- mactrey 6y agoOP is referring to Nintendo cancelling a Splatoon tournament because competitors were using the #FreeMelee hashtag https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/12/nintendo_cancels_splatoon_2_na_open_livestream_free_melee_believed_to_have_played_a_part https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/12/nintendo_cancels_s...
- vlunkr 6y agoEven the article states that's just speculation. > There were no further details, but some fans seem to think they might know what's going on...
- NoodleIncident 6y agoThey previously "allowed" it at Evo 2013 after massive backlash from trying to shut down the Melee stream, years before anything related to sexual misconduct was talked about. There is nothing recent enough about how they treat the Melee scene to blame emulators or sexual misconduct, it's been documented to be happening since the scene was revived post-brawl. The evo shutdown was presumably attempted to avoid any comparisons between their newest game (Brawl) and Melee; similarly, the recent shutdown probably has more to do with how bad Ultimate's online is compared to emulated Melee, rather than the mere fact that they're on an emulator in the first place. Other emulated online Melee tournaments without Ultimate have gotten away with it so far.