> put EA higher on the evil scale. I don't like where nintendo is going, but yeah, the EA thing is a whole new kind of 'fucking gross' the irony is EA started as a company that would (gasp!) CREDIT THE DEVELOPERS. Because previous companies didn't - there wasn't any credit given to anyone anywhere. EA said 'come program for us and we'll put you in the credits!' and it worked. But then sometime about 8 years later they'd become the EA we all know and hate and things really haven't changed much since.

Romhacks are not copyright infringement if you don’t distribute the ROMs. They only distribute patch files and users need to acquire the ROMs through _legal backups of their own copies of the original games_. It is not illegal to patch software, and it is not illegal to distribute a detailed list of all the things you’d change about a copyrighted work in order to make it into something else.

Nintendo, you mean the law firm?

Which AAA game dev isn't?

Larian is alright

It's debatable if La

> It's debatable if Larian is AAA What's debatable about Larian being a AAA studio?

They are not that big, and they are independent. Larian has less than a 1000 employees, while the likes of Ubisoft number in the multiple thousands.

I just discovered the FOSS pokemon called tuxemon. https://tuxemon.org/

So true, Nintendo, Disney, Nickelodeon, pretty much any institution I really looked up to as a kid has turned out to be pure evil.

Hello Games with No Man's Sky?

Did somebody forget about Microsoft?

Its just 6 giant supervillains fighting each other over the ruins of tokyo.

Ubisoft is a publisher, not a game dev studio. They publish games made by their child studios. They don’t produce games themselves. > Larian has less than a 1000 employees Yes, they have 500 employees which would be quite large for an Indie development studio. DICE (studio behind the Battlefield games), for example, has 700 employees. CD Project RED, (Cyberpunk, Witcher games), has 615 employees. If budget is the qualifier for AAA, Larian has put out multiple massive budgeted games in both BG3 and Divinity 2. I’m not sure which metric would disqualify Larian as being a AAA studio.

Nobody should ever look up to companies.

To me Larian would be a AA studio.

Maybe they are just a company... Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it

> Ubisoft Paris Mobile, Ubisoft Ivory Tower, Ubisoft Nadeo, Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Owlient, Ubisoft Da Nang, Ubisoft Paris, Ubisoft Toronto, Ubisoft Quebec, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Chengdu, Ubisoft San Francisco, Ubisoft Milan, Ubisoft Mumbai, Ubisoft Düsseldorf, Ubisoft Mainz, Ubisoft Bordeaux, Ubisoft Montpellier, Ubisoft Singapore, Ubisoft Saguenay, and Ubisoft Bucharest to name a few are Ubisoft and they produce and publish games. Yes, these are all their children studios. Ubisoft Entertainment (colloquially referred to as just Ubisoft), as an entity, is [a video game publisher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubisoft). Does that make all their children studios AAA? A lot of them don't have massive employee numbers and their budget per game varies greatly lol.

I think it's important to separate Nintendo's legal department from product development. While the products are expensive, they are high quality and are generally enjoyed by their target demographic. Their legal department is a supervillain, sure, but that's a separate thing entirely from the product development side IMO.

I understand the sentiment, but why is this an important separation? The legal department speaks on behalf of Nintendo more than any other branch in the company. It's all a trickle effect from the higher ups and the type of culture they want to develop. As a consumer, whether or not their actions come from legal or product development, it should still reflect on the company as a whole and impact my decisions on what to spend my cash on.