Accidentally putting pressure on Nintendo again by telling the truth 😅<\/p>\n
Bro this company is going to hate me with a passion…but…they could just work with me and let me license their characters instead 🤭🙄 https:\/\/t.co\/JuVRGJnJR1<\/a><\/p>\n — CptnAlex (@Cptn_Alex) December 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Etika Joycons was a fundraising project in honour of Desmond “Etika” Amofah, a tragically deceased YouTuber who took his own life in June 2019.<\/a><\/p>\n Etika was a legend in the Nintendo community, he was someone whom people from the community loved and respected. His tragic early death was a huge loss, and it feels like something that could have been prevented.<\/p>\n To honour Etika’s legacy and show what he meant for the community, Captain Alex created a project of custom-made Etika-themed Joy-con shells, and proceeds from each Etikons sale were meant for the JED Foundation for teen and young adult mental health awareness.<\/p>\n “Etika’s early death highlights a major issue in the US today – our mental health care system,” Captain Alex explains on the project’s IndieGoGo page.<\/a><\/p>\n To minimize the production cost, the Joy-con shells would have been manufactured in China and all the money besides expenses would have gone to JED Foundation.<\/p>\n The project has been received positively by the community and it was a success, so people were expecting this to continue sometime this year, but that will not be the case because Nintendo has asked Captain Alex to stop with the production.<\/p>\n While legally Nintendo has the right to stop him from doing this because it can be considered to be illegal modding of a console for money, those were essentially just cosmetic Joy-Con skins. Joy-Con skins are being sold all around the world for profit, unlike this initiative which was meant for charity.<\/p>\n It goes without saying that the community has been outraged over this news, and reactions are overwhelmingly negative, especially in light of recent events with the Smash community<\/a> and the cancelled Splatoon tournament.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just a day after cancelling a Splatoon tournament over players’ support for the Melee community, Nintendo is once again in the centre of controversy. On…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":10628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","genre-fighting-games","content_type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Etika’s death was a big loss for the Nintendo community (Picture: Etika)<\/span><\/p>\n
(Picture: Captain Alex)<\/span><\/p>\n
(Picture: Captain Alex)<\/span><\/p>\n