 Earlier today we told you guys that Tears of the Kingdom has leaked and look I mean it's everywhere if you really really want to find it if you know the known places it's all over the place man it's, look I'm not going to say it's hard to avoid spoilers because I've been able to avoid them even though my entire well not my entire but a huge chunk of my discord server in the spoiler area is talking about it somehow I still barely know anything about this game so if I barely know anything then it really isn't that hard to avoid the spoilers that being said what I will note is Nintendo's not happy no surprise hey the game leaked you know the Monday on the week before the game came out yeah Nintendo's not happy they're very upset about it they probably knew it was going to happen and even then they're upset and they're going nuke happy and they have gone after one particular person who is at least partially responsible for the leaks and this is quite interesting to dig into but before we 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servers because there's been a lot of discord servers responsible for distributing the game and Nintendo's not happy about that as well so Nintendo's doing their best to nuke everything they can of course the game is out there it's not that hard to get your hands on if you want it spoilers are everywhere etc etc etc Nintendo couldn't stop the floodgates even if they wanted to once things get on the internet they take on a life of their own but what Nintendo can do as at least discourage the same people from leaking in the future and while certainly Nintendo's trying to figure out who is the exact person that got the retail copy that ripped the game and put it online yes they're trying to chase that person down we found out through our good friend Nintendo talk who is gonna be coming on our podcast this week so I can't wait to maybe expand on this a little further with him we found out from him that one particular leaker Nintendo has already gone after in at least a minor capacity we'll see how big of a capacity it becomes and that is the guy that was selling the copies on mercury so this guy on mercury sold like five copies of tears of the kingdom one for a hundred four more for 300 each and what's interesting is that Nintendo actually got a hold of one of the purchasers of one of the games one of the guys who spent $300 on the game and he got a canceled email and the email just is your typical hey your order is not gonna be fulfilled here's a refund on the behalf of a car e etc etc etc and get your money back right show the email screen there you guys saw it's all good but here's the thing within the email and obviously going through the exchanges it turns out that this was canceled by mercury themselves not by the seller so it wasn't like the seller was selling fools gold no no no in fact the seller had already shipped the item that's gonna come into play in a moment so mercury cancel this order due to a third party interaction so this means it wasn't due to the seller it wasn't due to the buyer and it wasn't due to mercury themselves a third party requested that they cancel the order so who could that third party be who could actually care if these games are sold Nintendo of course that's a job of doing a substance Nintendo I don't know who the hell else it could be but yeah Nintendo probably went ahead and got a shut down and right now three of the orders have been entirely canceled by mercury I'm sure the other two are on their way to being canceled as well but here's the crazy thing because the guy actually shipped the items so the order status said there's a chance that this guy not only got his 300 plus dollar refund is also potentially going to get the game as well as it might have already been sent out now this seller might be in a whole bunch of trouble at this point anyways I'm not really worrying about that game because obviously there could be some legal problems you know getting the mercury your store shut down in general might suck for them because there are five star seller who has sold a lot of things on the website so mercury could potentially shut his account down that would already probably hurt him financially but who knows if Nintendo wants to go after me even harder or maybe Nintendo just wanted to use this to scare him get a hold of the seller and then find out how he got his hands on these copies like hey what retail outlet gave you those copies we need to know so we can deal with that retail outlet Nintendo usually likes to go after the source rather than the innocent bystander like if you're just a customer who walked into a store the games around the shelf and you said hey can I buy a handful of these and they say sure and sell them to you you're not really a fault the store is and so in this case maybe Nintendo just wants to store or maybe this person stole the copies we don't really know how they got their hands on them but we do know that Nintendo seems to be involved in getting them canceled so you add this to the list of Nintendo nuking a whole bunch of other things and you're starting to realize you know how Nintendo is gonna handle this situation I'm sure you know I don't know if they'll ever find the original person who leaked the game there's multiple versions of the game apparently out there now I'm being told so it's not just one leak anymore it's multiple and I don't really know what to think about any of this other than to say that one it kind of sucks the game leaked for those of you out there that are that are emulating it doing your thing I'm sure you're all happy and all that but for the rest of us we're just because this has been next week instead like I said like Wednesday of next week would any of us be that upset I think we could just you know whatever turn off the internet for a couple days and come back on Friday to the Internet front live stream we're gonna be doing at 8 a.m. central but look I don't really know what else I can say about this guy's other than it's unfortunate that it happened and Ten was gonna continue to go after people if they happen to file any suits or go after any of the other leakers I'll let you know right now I do know they have nuked several discord servers or gotten discord to nuke those servers I guess I should say they have gone after several different individuals who are live streaming it although you know the extent at which they've gone after besides shutting down the streams we don't know and now we know they're going after this Mercari seller forcing them to refund all his copies and like they do an investigation there as well so look Nintendo is gonna do the best that they can do to try to contain this as much as possible and it's pretty much impossible to do it Nintendo you know if we learn anything out of the situation is that if Nintendo wants to avoid this in the future they might do some things that we don't like maybe it's DRM again we don't like it but things like this happening is what encourages them to maybe look more at DRM this also could lead to them just not releasing physical copies of games for everyone out there that's a massive support of physical copies of games leaks happening because of physical copies actually hurts the argument to keep physical copies around so I just want to point out that this actually sort of hurts that as well and on top of all of that yet to consider that maybe Nintendo might in the future release the digital version first like they did with Metroid primary master right we have the $40 version first right on the e-shop and then wait two weeks and release the physical what did Nintendo do the same thing hey we're gonna give you the digital now and then after the digital copy comes out then we'll ship the physicals because then they also wouldn't have to worry about leaks if they did it that way too so again it's not what we want but it is a solution to a ongoing issue that's gonna continue I don't even know when I mean the next platform is gonna get hacked eventually too right we just hope it doesn't happen in the first six months anyways guys thank you so much for tuning in I'll catch you in the next video