The government outlaws the people.
As a game company, Nintendo has always enjoyed a high reputation, but its attitude towards e-sports events and the civil community is relatively indifferent. Recently, Nintendo has shut down a “Super Smash Bros.” organized by the player community without warning. (hereinafter referred to as “Super Smash Bros”) e-sports events.
As one of Nintendo’s signature games, the “Super Smash Bros.” series focuses on an easy-to-use party game style, but after continuous research by players, the game is still highly competitive, and thus came into being large and small Competitive events. Since 2007, EVO, the highest-profile fighting game competition in North America, has also used the “Super Smash Bros.” series as a competition event.
In 2021, after the EVO e-sports league was acquired by Sony, Nintendo announced that it would re-evaluate participation in EVO, and the last thing waiting for the players of “Super Smash Bros.” was the news that “The “Super Smash Bros.” project will never return to the game” .
At that time, people speculated that there were two reasons why Nintendo did this. On the one hand, the EVO event has been controlled by its competitor Sony, and it seems reasonable to withdraw; Nintendo has reached a partnership and will hold truly officially authorized “Super Smash Bros.” events in the future.
It is very rare to have a commercial license from Nintendo, but for games without a license, it may mean the consequences of being completely shut down. Panda’s announcement sparks Smash
World Tour (hereinafter referred to as SWT) organizers’ concerns.
Although SWT is a folk event, after years of support and development of community players, the scale can be said to be quite large. Last year, they organized more than 6,400 offline games, with as many as 325,000 participants, and the $250,000 Super Smash Bros. event The highest prize pool in history, this year’s prize pool is even expected to exceed 350,000 US dollars.
In SWT’s announcement, it was written that after Panda Company became the only authorized event party, they originally thought that SWT would be shut down immediately, but after contacting Nintendo, Nintendo’s open-minded attitude was beyond their expectations. Nintendo not only expressed its long-term concern and affirmation of SWT, but also promised that the authorization of the event does not mean that “one company dominates”. As long as it does not violate the relevant requirements, Nintendo will still allow other events to be held.
The conversation changed the organizer’s view of Nintendo.
Nintendo’s friendly attitude made SWT organizers think that all this was just a false alarm. They held the 2021 event with confidence and decided to officially obtain Nintendo’s authorization before the 2022 event was announced.
But things started to take a turn. According to the announcement, during the preparation stage of the 2022 event, the SWT organizers discovered that the CEO of Panda, Alan, was spreading the words that “SWT will be shut down”, which aroused the concerns of some participants.
CEO of Panda Company, Alan
Although Nintendo made another guarantee to SWT in the subsequent negotiations, Alan’s behavior intensified. He not only declared that SWT would be shut down, but also did not allow players who signed up for their own games to sign up for SWT, and at the same time tried to broadcast well-known The teams were all included in their own competitions, and when the team refused to violate the signed agreement, Alan even threatened them directly, and finally threatened to let Nintendo directly get involved in the matter.
“Never compromise”
At the same time, the time for the 2022 SWT competition is getting closer, but the organizers have found that the communication between Nintendo and them has become slower and slower, and the application for commercial authorization has not received a positive answer for a long time. Collaborators are also starting to worry, and Nintendo said that Panda, Alan, and various connections are starting to complicate the situation, and they are thinking carefully and trying their best to make things progress.
Although the commercial authorization could not be obtained in time, given Nintendo’s previous friendly attitude, the organizers continued to organize SWT according to the process. However, Nintendo directly stated that SWT cannot be held without commercial authorization. Regardless of whether it is this year or next year, Nintendo cannot guarantee that they will obtain commercial authorization, and cannot disclose the reasons and details.
Nintendo’s decision made it difficult for the organizers to understand, but they still did not forget to make the last “struggle”. They asked Nintendo whether SWT could continue as before, “pretending nothing happened” and reminded Nintendo Now, the prohibition of holding SWT will cause a series of waves, including various direct losses to the players and organizers, but the reply is still ruthless negative.
When the 2022 and 2023 SWT suspension announcements were issued, people’s disappointment and anger followed. Soon they learned about the series of behaviors of Panda and Alan, and after being confirmed by relevant industry insiders, there was “The Great Chaos” The “Dou” contestants immediately stated that they would never participate in any so-called competitions authorized by Nintendo, or competitions organized by Panda.
Some players launched a joint boycott against Panda, calling on people to refuse to participate in Panda’s Super Smash Bros. Now, under the tweets of Panda and Alan, many netizens have gathered, spurning the behavior of this company and the boss .
“No one will go to your games”
At the same time, many people can’t understand Nintendo’s approach emotionally. They think that for so many years, Nintendo has been almost indifferent to the construction and development of the civil community, and now this ruthless decision has destroyed the common spirit of the Smash Bros. community for many years. hard work.
We may not know the reasons that prompted Nintendo to make such a decision, nor the communication behind Panda and Nintendo, but the only thing that can be determined is that the players of “Super Smash Bros.” have been deeply hurt. And the precedent of the cancellation of this “unauthorized” competition has also made people worry about whether more private competitions will be ruthlessly shut down in the future.
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