• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    The most worrying part about this to me, is that if Nintendo wins this lawsuit, they might start going after other games for “similar” mechanics.

    Enjoy a game where your character jumps? Oops, Mario does that.

    Like swinging a sword around? Green Tunic Twink Boy has that covered.

    I’m being hyperbolic of course, but once the door is open for this sort of thing, I think it will become much, much more common. Indie games are the only real threat to the big AAA companies, and the only real reason they don’t charge $200 a game, but if they can sue any indy company into bankruptcy, they’ll have no challenges to their overpriced slop.