 All right, this is an interesting story and really just bodes poorly for a company called net ease games they are a Chinese video game company and They Someone at their company or multiple people in the as it seems Might have just screwed any chance net ease games has to work with Nintendo Especially in terms of releasing their games on Nintendo switch Which is a big deal for these smaller companies that might make mobile games and stuff like that because switch is Got a massive market for indie games a lot of indie games high quality ones sell very very well And it appears they might even have a high quality indie game in there it in their library because It appears that a bunch of fans were accusing net ease games of Essentially ripping off breath of the wild with one of their recent releases on smart devices Operation Wing cloud island now this game is not available in my area on our app stores So I have not been able to try it out and confirm these allegations We do have a screenshot here, but the screenshots kind of vague I know it kind of looks like selfie mode from breath of the wild fire guy holding them a peace sign Blah blah, but that's not enough to really say that this is a breath of the wild rip off But even if it was a breath of the wild rip off that would still be highly impressive and It's okay for games to draw inspiration to kind of sort of be ripoffs as long as it's not blatant Like you don't see the link and Gorons and Zora running around in this world Right and it appears to only happen on a single island whereas obviously breath of the wilds this massive game Anyways setting that aside because I can't confirm any of these allegations myself What I can talk about is net eases response to these allegations now You would assume there is really a few ways to go and responding one You could just choose not to respond at all because maybe it's true and you don't want to light the you know you don't want to fuel the fire and Whatever you just want to leave it alone and just let people think what they think and move on There's a lot of people that think a certain other indie games are rip off of the Wind Waker It's not it's different enough, but you know, that's just the way fans are You know, it looks like another game. Therefore it must be that game, right? So what we'll see what happens at this game if it ever comes out in the US? But what net ease so someone at these games We don't know who I went on one of their social media accounts in China. They use an application called tap tap It's one of the biggest social media applications they have in China and They went on that smartphone app to essentially fire back at consumers because obviously they can go back and forth like a Twitter like a Facebook business page etc and You would think if you're going to say anything about the situation You're gonna talk about how your game is fundamentally different from breath of the wild right that that's at least what makes the most sense to me But that's not what happened. What did happen is net ease went on to bash Nintendo fans He said things like Nintendo fans don't consider mobile games to be true games and that's why they're criticizing the game So basically they're criticizing it because it's a mobile game They are saying that PC games are vastly superior to essentially any switch game It doesn't matter what switch game you're talking about all PC games are better Then they started also basically name-calling switch fans saying a lot of words. I don't even want to repeat here They're pretty nasty about it and for some reason even though obviously it felt like it was Nintendo fans bashing their game This for some reason started bashing PlayStation 4 fans as well. I don't know why I don't know if there was a vendetta there with this Particular staff member. Anyways, it obviously doesn't look good. It's a company coming out publicly and just attacking consumers That's not ever gonna go over. Well, that's terrible PR and that's a way to end your company in a hurry However, it doesn't appear that someone else and net ease obviously eventually saw that this was happening And they deleted all of the the post all all the things that had anything derogatory said towards Nintendo or PlayStation fans and Then they decided to kind of sort of apologize in a way But not really they kind of tried to pass off what they said as a joke ha ha funny It was just a joke. You were just joking around. Yeah derogatory names and The very blatant biases you were trying to claim everyone has That's that's funny nice joke But what makes it worse is as they tried to pass it off as a joke And then they were talking about how we actually are all really big Nintendo fans And to prove that here is an image we took of Our switch and some of the games we have and in the image you'll as you see it now You see, you know some labo creations and you're seeing you know odyssey and the stacking games there It looks like there's between two in there one to switch Some other stuff you're seeing a switch there that has like those little paw things put on the sticks And you would think things kind of end there right like okay. Yeah, this was a really bad PR situation someone instead of saying that they were wrong and apologizing trying to pass it off as a joke Here's some proof the problem with that proof is this is the internet and they should have known better I don't know why they didn't just go home and buy a switch at least fake it Turns out this image is actually from a completely different outlet on the internet was posted a long time ago So they basically took an image from another outlet claimed It was their own to prove how much they like switch and There was actually a lie so not only did they come out and bash Nintendo fans And then try to pass off that bashing and PlayStation fans Let's be fair and try to pass off that bashing as a joke They then turned around and lied about how big a switch fans. They are by faking an image that isn't theirs This the only reason this even matters Because this this is just you know You could probably find this situation a dime a dozen with certain indie studios that you know People just can't handle the criticism can't handle the heat. They got to respond And I know what that's like I've been caught up in the wind of responding to people that I probably shouldn't be paying any attention to although I Think I've learned over the years that they're resorting to attacking them as people attacking their beliefs attacking their Their opinion their personal opinions on video games Is something that I have learned to kind of back off on but you know in my younger years? It was it was probably an issue when I was a kid Not that I can remember any specific situation that cropped up, but there's there's probably been times I've been this way the thing is That this company Wanted to work with Nintendo on future projects the president himself came out a while back Back in 2017 and mentioned how they wanted to work with Nintendo on future projects So basically in they wanted to bring future games to the switch that that was their long-term goal After this entire situation, I'm not so sure that Nintendo is going to approve of them Granted it didn't look like they were approved to develop for switch anyways as is but with this whole situation It's gonna be tough for Nintendo to look at it as oh So you attacked our fans and attached Sony fans and then lied about how big a switch fans you are and now you want to put games on Switch, I mean obviously why anyone wants to put games on switchers about making money the same reason Nintendo even made switch even makes anything It's all about making money, but it's one of those things where You can't allow a company that's blatantly attacking your own consumers To just come on over especially when they then turned around and lied to those consumers About how big a switch fans they are and this is the thing I'm not claiming that people in net ease There's not people within the company that aren't big switch fans I don't know how big the company is is it two people is it four people is it ten people isn't a hundred people I have no idea But what I do know is they are very disingenuous They lied right to people's faces And this is just not good This is not good. I Stories like this I think are a little funny because like net ease is destroying themselves before they even get an opportunity To do anything on switch, you know, they're basically destroying their own marketability on switch Even if Nintendo overlooked everything and approved them It's going to be hard to show support to a company that so openly went after the very consumers they're trying to sell products to And you know you combine this with following up You know the Philip story from IGN and how he stole stuff and then these guys stole an image I don't you know these stories. I think are a little interesting, but they're also a little sad I kind of wish that Obviously the Philip situation is entirely different because we're talking about stealing someone else's work and claiming it as your own and Getting paid for that and stuff of that I don't know if anyone was being paid for these these social media posts and it's in China So I don't you know, I don't really know the laws and all that but what I do know is that in this case Sometimes the best thing to do is not say anything at all Whether or not your game is a ripoff or not. There's really only two approaches you Don't respond at all or if you do respond It's deny deny deny and then provide evidence for why you don't think it's breath of the wild Why you think it's just an inspired by game because it's okay to create games that are inspired by other games That is a thing that happens in the industry and should continue to happen. It should be encouraged But anyways, I am kind of curious if the operation of WingCloud Island game does ever come over to US for to try it out Because if if the claims are true and people are calling your breath of the wild ripoff It might be one of the best mobile games on the market I've said, I don't know what's monetization methods. I don't know how long it is or anything But I definitely seem interested in trying it out at least based on the initial screenshot Which doesn't really tell you much again looks like a selfie mode the guy given a peace sign some palm trees in the background doesn't look that impressive, but I Mean breast of the wild with just a still image like that doesn't look that impressive So you gotta you got to try it out for ourselves and see what happens. Anyways, that's all I got for you guys in this video I do want to make one quick note at the end here as quick as I can make it anyways I I do apologize for not appearing on camera much lately Not getting prime news going again like I wanted to I talked about this a little bit in the comment section on a prior video I have been sick the past handful of days Really the past week. I've had a cold it might not be coming through in this video I think you know, I'm doing a good job of holding it in but as soon as I'm done recording There's gonna be hacking at my lugs and blowing my nose and all blah and when I feel like this I don't really like appearing on camera Because I just don't you know, I look washed out. I don't want people being concerned for my health just because I have a cold Right like the it's just not a thing that you know, you guys should really worry about We still are doing a podcast recording and all that I'll be on camera for that Today and then I might be making a video on our patreon More on that later when I actually make that video on that I'll be on camera that might be after I take a nap and I get some color back in my face And then I don't look so sickly So we can promote our patreon because it would be great to get that patreon growing again And help supporting what we do here at Nintendo Prime. All right folks. That's it. That's all I got for this video Hopefully by next week. We'll be back to doing prime news. How many you guys miss prime news raise your hand. Hi folks If you like the video, you know what to do if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more content And I'll catch you in the next one