I'm convinced that Nintendo is pretty much completely stupid in certain aspects. Their response to the campaign against region locking, their WiiU advertising campaign (or lack thereof), actively taking down YouTube let's plays, and this debacle, it says Stupid with a capital 'S'.

A smart company would enjoy the benefit of free advertising for the franchise.

A smarter company would post up at EVO themselves: set up their own stream, set up demo booths for the next Smash Bros, host a Q&A panel, reveal new characters.

Sigh.

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9172 Posts

July 10 2013 00:12 GMT

#423

well all you have to do is look at nintendo's deteriorating position in the gaming market and you have to begin to wonder why their moves are at all surprising or disappointing.

Noocta

France12578 Posts

July 10 2013 00:24 GMT

#424

Well Nintendo are a bit like Capcom, in the way that they don't seems Evil.
They're just really really stupid.

cHaNg-sTa

United States1058 Posts

July 10 2013 00:31 GMT

#425

Nintendo. Literally killing esports.

musai

Canada552 Posts

July 10 2013 00:55 GMT

#426

Good, P4A is more fun to watch anyways.

Duka08

3391 Posts

July 10 2013 00:56 GMT

#427

This whole thing is effed the hell up. I'm not even a smash fan and I'm incredibly salty over this. Not much more to say.

Artok

Netherlands2219 Posts

July 10 2013 01:07 GMT

#428

Evo pre-event stream showing melee, how do i contact nintendo?

neurosx

Luxembourg1096 Posts

July 10 2013 01:17 GMT

#429

Oh shit I was excited to watch some Melee

What the flying fuck Nintendo :/

templar rage

United States2509 Posts

July 10 2013 01:27 GMT

#430

I'm not much of a fighting game person, but I'm watching EVO and was most excited to see Melee. Tweeted them voicing my displeasure and will surely find other ways to contact them too.

Excalibur_Z

United States12243 Posts

July 10 2013 01:40 GMT

#431

On July 10 2013 08:24 thekoalaz wrote:
Ugh I hate Nintendo so much right now. Melee was the only game I was going to watch this weekend because it's the only Fighting Game I played much of but now I have nothing to watch.

Don't worry, there are a lot better games from a spectator point of view than Melee. I recommend watching a lot of the other games purely because you never know what will become Super Hype.

Really idiotic decision by Nintendo by the way. With a new Smash game on their new console, you would think they'd embrace the publicity which is going to be 100% positive for them with absolutely no downside. They'd rather alienate their current and potential customers.

Tosstriss

Canada334 Posts

July 10 2013 01:44 GMT

#432

Get hype SMASH IS BACK BABY.

Ablaij

United States74 Posts

July 10 2013 01:45 GMT

#433

On July 10 2013 10:44 Tosstriss wrote:
Get hype SMASH IS BACK BABY.
https://twitter.com/EvilMrWizard/status/354777712080072704

Here's the updated Shoryuken post

http://shoryuken.com/2013/07/09/changes-to-evo-2013-smash-schedule/

Tosstriss

Canada334 Posts

July 10 2013 01:47 GMT

#434

Damn Nintendo almost fucked up. I was planning to called Nintendon't.
Sucks ass for KOF13 and P4 though being so early.

YulyaVolkova

United Kingdom95 Posts

July 10 2013 01:47 GMT

#435

Utterly imbecilic. Also not at all a Smash fan but really quite angry over this. For me, its mostly the audacity of not mentioning this until theres <1week until EVO. Flights booked, tournaments arranged, stream schedules setup, people probably planning their weekend to watch what they want to watch, then fuck it, Nintendo decides that now is the time to bring up that they have a problem with it instead of 2+ months ago, or hell, as soon as they noticed their game was one of the candidates in the charity drive. Completely disrespectful.

^ Thank fuck :D

GARO

United States2255 Posts

July 10 2013 01:52 GMT

#436

There were 3 days left for the idiots at Nintendo to get this debacle fixed anyway, but the faster the better

Noocta

France12578 Posts

July 10 2013 01:54 GMT

#437

That's the quickest campaign ever rofl
Good that Nintendo reversed their policy, I really feared they would not.

itsjustatank

Hong Kong9172 Posts

July 10 2013 01:55 GMT

#438

nintendo is still dumb but good job people

Ognam

United States798 Posts

July 10 2013 02:03 GMT

#439

This makes me 100% convinced that the new Smash game will be just as bad/worse than Brawl from a competitive standpoint.

Such a shame. Melee is a really deep and technical game, but Nintendo is insistent on staying as far away from that as possible apparently.

thekoalaz

United States109 Posts

July 10 2013 02:08 GMT

#440

On July 10 2013 10:45 Ablaij wrote:

Show nested quote +

Here's the updated Shoryuken post

http://shoryuken.com/2013/07/09/changes-to-evo-2013-smash-schedule/

Thank god!

The shoryuken site seems to be flooded tho