![]() ![]() The situation varies in the Tabletop RPG world some licensed games are pretty poor, but many are okay and some are famously good. ![]() Pinball games tend to avert this, as it's very hard (but not impossible) to screw up pinball. This is most obvious in Video Games, but it also applies to Board Games and Trading Card Games. Given the built-in customer interest and sales potential in a licensed property, there's considerably less incentive for developers to make an actually good game. Or, they could just buy into an already-popular property via licensing permission to build a game around a TV show, or a movie, or a comic book, or a work of literature, or anything really ( and we mean anything note Although the last one was pretty good.). video and card game developers could take some time to develop an original property made with care, imagination and the ultimate goal of developing a brand new franchise. Most games that sell fall into at least one of the two categories. There are two ways to sell games: Quality of game, and reputation of name. This week’s lawsuit appears to be in line with Nintendo’s overall efforts to curb piracy of its games and on its platforms.The problem is that Licensed Games tend to be mediocre at best. Nintendo is also known to send out cease-and-desist letters liberally - it issued a takedown notice for 562 fangames in 2016. In November 2018, Nintendo reached a $12 million settlement with the two ROM sites, and, it previously sued over similar allegations. “This decision will help protect the UK games industry and the more than 1,800 developers worldwide that create games for the Nintendo Switch platform, and who rely on legitimate sales of games for their livelihood and to keep bringing quality content to gamers,” a Nintendo representative told Eurogamer about the high court ruling. This week, Nintendo won a United Kingdom high court case that will require five internet service providers - Sky, BT, EE, Talktalk, and Virgin Media - to “block” or “impede access” to four different websites that offered pirated Nintendo Switch games or information pertaining to the action, according to a Eurogamer report. Nintendo appears to be cracking down on piracy worldwide. Nintendo has not responded to Polygon’s inquiry by publication time. A RomUniverse representative declined to speak with Polygon. The ROM site appears to list both new and old Nintendo games, as well as movies and books. The company says in the lawsuit that RomUniverse is “among the most visited and notorious online hubs for pirated Nintendo video games,” with nearly 300,000 downloads for the offered Nintendo Switch games and “more than 500,000” downloads for Nintendo 3DS games. The membership allows users to download “an unlimited number of pirated games, with higher speeds than non-members,” Nintendo alleges. RomUniverse reportedly offers memberships to its site, priced at $30 per year. Nintendo says that the pirated games display “counterfeit copies of Nintendo’s trademarks” when the games are played, as well as infringing the copyright of the works themselves. The company is seeking damages in the amount of $150,000 for each copyright infringement, and up to $2 million for each trademark infringement. 10 against the owner of ROM website RomUniverse. Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit on Sept. ![]()
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