Why? Because of this Canadian lawsuit against **Fortnite**:
> **Children stopped sleeping and eating to play Fortnite – lawsuit**
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> **A Canadian judge has approved a class-action lawsuit brought by three parents who say their children became addicted to the video game Fortnite.**
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> The plaintiffs say their children would forgo sleeping, eating and showering because they were hooked on the game.
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> **In court filings, they noted that the World Health Organization recognised video-game addiction in 2018.**
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> The lawsuit is against the game’s maker, Epic Games, and its Canadian subsidiary.
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> In a statement, Epic Games said it had “industry-leading parental controls that empower parents to supervise their child’s digital experience”.
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> “Parents can receive playtime reports that track the amount of time their child plays each week, and require parental permission before purchases are made,” the company said.
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> “We plan to fight this in court. We believe the evidence will show that this case is meritless,” it added.
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> The popular online game has amassed more than 350 million players online.
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> While the game is free to play, players pay to use in-game money called “V Bucks”. The game has reportedly made more than $9bn (£7.3bn) worldwide.
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> One of the children cited in the lawsuit played over 7,700 hours of the game in less than two years.
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> **Quebec Superior Court Justice Sylvain Lussier ruled the lawsuit was not “frivolous”.**
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> **He likened current understanding of video-game addiction to early awareness of tobacco addiction: “The harmful effect of tobacco was not recognised or admitted overnight.”**
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> **He ruled that players who live in Quebec and experienced symptoms of addiction after playing the Battle Royale edition of Fortnite since 1 September 2017 can join the legal action.**
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63911176
Given bolded parts are reasons why this lawsuit even got approved in the first place, wouldn’t this mean that Epic Games is surely going to lose this lawsuit and every single countries will officially codify video-game addiction as a disease, leading the video game reputation to plummet to the level of tobacco smoking to a point where only adults are allowed to buy or play video games, ultimately causing all but games strictly for adults getting shut down due to severe lack of users? I mean, once every single country passes laws that only allows adults to play video games since they view video games as harmful as tobacco, wouldn’t that result in Universal Studios/Nintendo collaboration to get thrown out entirely, **Pokemon** series to permanently cease to exist, and **The Super Mario Bros. Movie** to get scrapped entirely?
Keep in mind, this is apparently why this lawsuit got approved in the first place:
> **Quebec Superior Court Justice Sylvain Lussier ruled the lawsuit was not “frivolous”.**
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> **He likened current understanding of video-game addiction to early awareness of tobacco addiction: “The harmful effect of tobacco was not recognised or admitted overnight.”**
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> **He ruled that players who live in Quebec and experienced symptoms of addiction after playing the Battle Royale edition of Fortnite since 1 September 2017 can join the legal action.**
…and the lawsuit is even using WHO recognizing video game addiction as an official disease as an evidence:
> **In court filings, they noted that the World Health Organization recognised video-game addiction in 2018.**
Wouldn’t that mean the court is going to side with parents no matter what, which would open the floodgate of parents suing Epic Games and other game companies all at once, ultimately resulting in every single video games to completely cease to exist aside from ones that are strictly made for adults? And keep in mind, Canada a very liberal country when it comes to video games and Quebec is one of the most liberal states in Canada, so if such a liberal country’s court sides with parents, then wouldn’t other countries follow the suit as well since it would set a precedent that leads to a massive floodgate of parents all over the world making similar lawsuit considering that most countries are apparently far more conservative than Canada when it comes to video games? Nintendo would be the biggest victim since their games are mostly for kids and teens, meaning that they will need to get absorbed by Illusion to stay in business.
by Block-Busted
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u ok dude
lmao no
the things people in this sub come up with out of absolutely nothing is wild
Is this by the same guy who said Nintendo would go bankrupt in six years lol??
Even in the highly unlikely timeline that all games become adult only, why would Nintendo sell themselves to some random porn game company, and not just up the age rating on all of their games? It’s not like Nintendo games are exclusively played by little kids.
Also, Pokemon would not cease to exist. The games are not the flagship of the Pokemon media empire.
Op sorry but you are…crikey.
Nintendo have the most valuable franchise on the planet. They could operate at a loss for over 100 years and still be in profit at the end of it.
Are people really this disconnected from reality?
Brain worms
Hey OP, can you tell me what you make of this image? Specifically, the chart?
https://i.imgur.com/Uval9OU.jpg
This has gotta be bait
Is your brain being eaten by maggots as you posted this crap?
Op I’m gonna go ahead and give you a little tip. You are posting something that is hilariously poorly thought out, which just suggests you are either a child, a simp or a troll.
You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how games companies (and to an extent, reality) works. This is one of those threads you will think back to in a few years and either dig your heels in with how you thought you uncovered a conspiracy (which you haven’t) or feel deep regret and embarrassment for being a laughing stock.
Honestly? Just delete the thread and retreat. No one is on your side of thinking here, because it’s just so poorly thought out. You are right now aligned with dark souls guy at the game awards, in that you are just spouting utter nonsense.
Ok, I’ll take this seriously if only to entertain you, OP.
Yes, gaming addiction is a thing, according to the WHO. Some kids get addicted to Fortnite, and sue Epic…
**Does that mean anything for games in general?**
It’s very likely this lawsuit will just end with Epic paying some compensation, and that’s it. Not many lawsuits end in laws changing; they’re supposed to apply the existing ones, not make new ones.
If anything, it’ll set new case law for similar lawsuits in the future, maybe pushing games companies in the future to avoid certain addictive elements in their games.
Because even the WHO report of gaming-associated addictive behaviour points at “particular patterns of video gaming” and its overlap with gambling as the potential cause for addictive behaviour. Not video games in general.
That’s why it’s usually games like Fortnite or Candy Crush that get people hooked like this. Not, say, Metroid or Kirby.
Several countries in Europe are taking steps to regulate loot boxes, for instance.
**But WHAT IF games were regulated as an adults-only form of entertainment?**
Well, you and the judge liken it to tobacco, but video games are not a substance. If they were to be compared to anything, it’d be gambling.
Gambling is regulated almost everywhere, and considered only suitable for adults. And still, it’s a VERY profitable business.
All in all: Nintendo won’t go out of business just because one judge likened gaming to tobacco…
Nothing you suggest will occur at all and you have a poor grasp on the way industry and law works.
Setting aside the things other people have already discussed, purely from a legal perspective: what makes you think a a Canadian lawsuit would have any bearing on any other country’s laws? It absolutely wouldn’t. The concerned people would need to raise a lawsuit in every other western country to attempt to make a dent in anything.
Also the WHO has no power anywhere. They are observers in just about any context. They can make recommendations but rarely does anything they do have any real impact except charity work.
And, the legal precedent here is about addiction which ties into loot boxes and “gambling”, which is a very small part of the gaming industry. This lawsuit might shut down fortnight or the card/deck games, and other games that use chance for advancement but there are zero Nintendo games that use those mechanics. Nintendo (and Sony, and Microsoft) would be unaffected
This is lawsuit that is approved in a single providence it isn’t like this lawsuit would apply to all of Canada. Even if the judge ruled unfavorably against Epic Games I would imagine Epic Games would appeal the lawsuit to the next court level higher or Epic Games could make an out-of-court settlement to avoid a judge making a ruling.
Plus Canada is a significantly smaller market than either the US or Japan when it comes to video games. Even if the Canadian Parliament passed some laws that made it that only people above 18 years old could play video games I would imagine that would happen is retailers in Canada would require people to show a photo id to purchase a video game. I imagine that most video game consoles allow parental settings that limits how long kids can play. I know the Switch allows for some restrictions, but I have never bothered with the parental settings.
Lol what on earth are you talking about
Fun fact most Nintendo games are played by adults
https://www.shacknews.com/article/127542/nintendo-discloses-switch-age-demographic-data-for-first-time
>wouldn’t this mean that Epic Games is surely going to lose this lawsuit and every single countries will officially codify video-game addiction as a disease, leading the video game reputation to plummet to the level of tobacco smoking to a point where only adults are allowed to buy or play video games, ultimately causing all but games strictly for adults getting shut down due to severe lack of users? I mean, once every single country passes laws that only allows adults to play video games since they view video games as harmful as tobacco, wouldn’t that result in Universal Studios/Nintendo collaboration to get thrown out entirely, Pokemon series to permanently cease to exist, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie to get scrapped entirely?
No, no it doesn’t. There are so many assumptions and leaps of logic you’re making here that this comes off as either a bad troll or just a very misinformed concern of an actual child.
This is the most brilliant troll I’ve ever seen
No.
There are ~17 Canadians in the world. Even if this wasn’t all silly, they’d just leave Canada and it wouldn’t matter to their bottom line.
Rofl
People have been trying to talk Nintendoom into being a thing for many years. Just another theory on the pile
the money epic games and nintendo have will put this case to rest just like every other one they’ve had.
OP at minimum you should watch Pepsi, wheres my jet? on netflix
It’s Quebec. No one cares about what Quebec does. This is the province that won’t let people participate in sweepstakes but the rest of the country is allowed.
Quebec has a habit of blaming everyone but themselves for their problems. Even if it succeeds in Quebec, the Canadian Supreme Court would probably throw it out as the parents didn’t take any steps to limit use even though there are warnings about taking breaks.
Hell you can’t play a Mario game without it asking if you want to take a break every fifteen minutes. Nintendo already does more than other companies so they’re not under threat here.
This is Epic Games problem and it’s a long shot at best for the parents.
Your theory is based on five assumptions.
1. The Canadian lawsuit will be successful.
2. This lawsuit will lead to an unprecedented flood of similar lawsuits from parents.
3. Those lawsuits will lead to **every single country worldwide** to **make it illegal for children to play video games**.
4. Nintendo will cancel all of its non-video game ventures.
5. A completely unrelated business called Illusion will absorb Nintendo.
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but the jump between 2 and 3 is hilariously unrealistic. Most people already know about video game addiction. At worst, there will be some additional regulations, some anti-video game commercials, and a shiny new warning label on the box. will
And even if video games are banned for people under the age of 16, 18, 21, or whatever… it isn’t like kids are going to stop playing video games. There are tons of games that you have to be 18 to buy… kids still get their hands on them. Hell, kids still get their hands on tobacco, alcohol, and whatever else… but video games is the one society is going to crack down on. And enough adults play Nintendo games that the company would be fine, even in your dystopian fantasy.
To begin with, all of that is if the lawsuit in Canada even goes anywhere. It won’t. You’re losing it lol, take a breather and recollect yourself.
https://youtu.be/GGn25URIss8
So a company won’t exist because of a lawsuit game that isn’t published or developed by them and has very little involvement from them?
That doesn’t make any sense.
Just like Nintendo was going to cease to exist after the Virtual Boy. But if not then, after the Wii U. /s
80s kid here.
They’ve been saying this as long as there have been video games.
The early 90s panic was really something else…
Title needs work, didn’t even read article. jk
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But, What??
Didn’t bother to read to know title is bullshit.
Like it or not, being this upset about video game addiction is a right wing thing. All efforts to study it have issues in their methodology and are clearly gunning for a “video game bad” verdict.
No country worth its weight in salt would negatively impact one of its largest industries that carries few, if any side effects with it. Even if they did, Canada is a Western country and its people would not side with such a ridiculous perspective.
Imagination cannot afford Nintendo. Fuckin’ *Microsoft* tried to buy Nintendo before launching the Xbox, and failed.
I think you should throw this into r/playstation, r/xbox, and r/pcgaming. Loved to hear what they think about it.
In I don’t mean to be rude but this is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read.
Nintendo is one of the oldest video game companies. Why would parents now all the sudden sue them? Ridiculous lawsuits against having companies is not a new concept.
Additionally, why would this mean that Nintendo would cease to exist even if some idiots sue them? All big corporations have been sued. That’s nothing new.
None of this makes sense. This is bait.