[AD-FREE] What a Weird Week for the Pokémon Company | Firelink Podcast
Added 2025-10-17 15:00:25 +0000 UTCThis week on Firelink, KC, Nick, and Marty chat about this week's big news, including the passing of Tomonobu Itagaki, a major departure at Rare, more drama from the MindsEye studio, and the very strange week that The Pokemon Company has been having.
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I think most responses are willfully misconstruing what Nick actually said. Nick said that content creators who set out deliberately to: a) dox specific employees, b) lie about sales data to damage a company's brand, or c) lie about business dealings to damage a company's brand, are a net negative to the industry and could be a target for litigation from companies moving forward. However, the responses to Nick's post characterize it as advocating for all critics of these companies to be silenced. You *can* make the argument that setting a precedent that companies can silence content creators for doxing employees opens the door for these companies feeling emboldened going after all forms of criticism (like the example of Yahtzee's criticism in your comment), but that type of censorship is not what Nick advocated for in his LinkedIn post and very clearly not something Nick would support. Obviously this gets more complicated when companies have opaque finances and sales figures which means content creators have no choice but to speculate and infer, but (to me anyway) Nick's post was quite clearly referring to folks with malicious agendas centered around the spreading of misinformation. Characterizing it as anything more is disingenuous in my opinion.
ergotpoisoning
2025-10-17 19:02:04 +0000 UTCCancelling my membership. I do not support Nick Calandra calling for companies to silence critics. What if Naughty Dog had tried to keep Yahtzee from calling out their shitty, unfun game? Independent critics are just as valuable as game journalists, if not more, Nick. Check Nick’s LinkedIn to understand what I’m talking about.
Chungle
2025-10-17 16:41:36 +0000 UTC
