…Yeah. I gave it a shot; but I can’t really beat this title and subtitle:
Nintendo shareholder meeting ‘disrupted by ranting Splatoon 3 fan’
THE FAN REPORTEDLY ACQUIRED OVER $3500 IN SHARES TO COMPLAIN ABOUT CUSTOMISATION OPTIONS
…but, like Neil Stevens, my sympathies are not with Nintendo. This guy paid for stockholder access, and he used it to bring up an issue that would be in fact relevant to a gaming company. Which was pretty explicitly within his rights.
In other words: it was a choice of put up or shut up, and my dude picked the former. Shine on, you crazy diamond. Shine on.
Moe Lane
PS: Now, there are people who were complaining that he picked an irrelevant topic, and that he should have yelled about their pet peeve instead. My reply would be: Then next time pony up the thirty-five hundred bucks yourself, Scooter McGee. Freeloaders can’t be choosers, either.
#commissionearned
…and a quote:
At the time, NStyles noted on Twitter that he was “worried that the number of game fans who misunderstand that ‘if you buy stock, you can push your demands to Nintendo’ will increase from next year”.
No… there’s no misunderstanding there. *That’s exactly what it means.* If you buy enough stock to pull yourself above whatever the threshold is, you absolutely *can* push your demands to Nintendo. They may or may not respond, but you can push just fine.
Now, current Nintendo market cap is apparently about 8 Trillion yen, so they might want to raise that threshold so that you have to own more than 1/16,000,000 of the company to get the right to harangue the leadership about your pet peeve, but that’s a matter of degree rather than kind.
What Nintendo should do there is set up a special comments/concerns department for stockholders – and pay attention to it. Because if somebody’s gonna buy in to the tune of thousands of dollars just to complain about an aspect of your game, perhaps the complaint should at least be taken seriously?
^This
You just described lobbying.
And bribery.
Or blackmail, depending or your bent.
Could even be all three.
The first of which at least isn’t an inherently bad thing.
Nintendo is a company nominally beholden to shareholders and market forces, so engineers and accountants will weigh in and if it’s not unprofitable give him what he wants.