Recent content by Paquito

Your thread title is kinda click bait, because the opening post is more nuanced. You're not really asking if PM's dead, you're asking if it's a good thing that PM is now like Melee and Smash64 where we have a stable product that a meta can confidently form around. I don't mind either way. I...

I was just pondering how, if the PM team were really going to do it, they'd create a stand-alone fighter. Particularly, what platform could they host it on to ensure the speed and responsiveness we love about PM? Like, they really can't go the Rivals of Aether route and create an online game on...

"Fighting is Magic"'s case is different... they were earning revenue off of the IP. That they were donating it to charity didn't make too much of a difference here

That example isn't remotely realistic. The point of IP laws like copywrite is to prevent people from inappropriately earning monetary profit from someone else's work. The litmus test over whether or not a violation has occurred has been, historically, whether or not someone is charging money /...

If this were legitimately a concern, the PM devs would never have given their blessing to host mirrors of the existing version on this website. At this point, it's certain that someone outside the PM is going to grab their source and do something new with it. So I guess we'll see. But, IMO, it...

They stopped hosting the PM downloads, but seem to have no problem allowing a stickied thread here to mirrors that provide the downloads. There's absolutely no reason why a bug-fix only version of PM, produced by unaffiliated developers, would expose them to any more legal risk than mirroring PM...

The point of his post was he didn't want to see the community divided over different versions of PM. I see absolutely no reason why the community would be divided over a version that is released *strictly* to fix bugs. Further, a bug-fix only version wouldn't be introducing the new content that...

They said they weren't, but it seemed plausible this wasn't true for reasons I went into in the announcement thread, but won't rehash here. Did really they imply they weren't working on a standalone fighter though? That's a bummer, but if they were all hired by a company that's working on a...

For what it's worth, the fact that there's a stickied thread pointing to users to where they can download PM supports the notion that they weren't contacted by Nintendo. I'm more convinced that this move is related to not wanting to expose their new stand-alone project to legal liability, which...

*Preorders new system*

If a group were to release a 3.7 that was *strictly* a bug-fix build, I don't think that would split the community.

MELEE ISN'T DEAD????? I THOUGHT ALL THOSE WEEKLIES WERE HAUNTED FOR YEARS More optimistic speculation: Even if the new characters (Knuckles, etc) were almost complete, introducing them to the roster would effectively amount to a commitment of one or two more years of development, due to bugs...

Like I said, that was an optimistic reading :) The abruptness of this announcement is definitely suspect. But here's more optimistic speculation: 3.7 would probably be at least 6 months more of volunteer work on a project they've already spent 6 years of their lives on. If they're willing to...

Oh, they do have an attorney already. Here's a tweet claiming they received no legal notice from Nintendo. Optimistically reading this: they really have decided to throw all of their effort behind a standalone project, and don't want to introduce undue risk to that new business by continuing to...

Just keep playing PM. Melee hasn't changed for over a decade, right? It still has bugs and issues. But it's an amazing game, so people keep playing it. No reason not to treat PM the same way. So long as weeklies continue to host PM, I'll be there. Also, we really should make an effort to keep...