Nintendo Halts Super Smash Bros. Brawl User Uploads

[Andy Chalk]

Nintendo Halts Super Smash Bros. Brawl User Uploads

Nintendo [http://www.nintendo.com] has announced that as of the end of June it will no longer be accepting stage designs and other user-created content for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl allows players to create their own "stages" and then distribute them to friends or upload them to Nintendo through Smash Bros. Dojo [http://www.nintendo.com/games/wifi] says the service will be coming to a halt at the end of this month.

"As of June 30th, 2009, the current service that accepts user-generated snapshots, stage designs, and replay data will no longer be available," it says. "Please note, however, that we will continue to distribute such data after that date."

Infendo [http://www.infendo.com/smash-bros-brawl/super-smash-bros-brawl-user-generated-content-service-ending/] has reported on speculation that SSBB players were uploading hacked stages that "borked the system" but Nintendo has not offered any explanation for why the service is ending, nor whether or not the "current service" might at some point be replaced with a "new service."

via: VG247 [http://www.vg247.com/2009/06/05/smash-bros-data-services-being-switched-off/]


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[Katana314]

Wow...I'm not even an SSBB player, but this already seems way too early to do this. Hooray for Nintendo once again not understanding the intarwebs.

 

[Aura Guardian]

I never really uploaded my stages. But not a huge loss.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

I haven't played Brawl in a while, and never did use Nintendo Wi-Fi connection except for a few lag-plagued matches one day, but "BOOOOOOO! WTF Nintendo!"

 

[Lonko]

To be honest, I'm wondering who's going to care.

 

[Tales of Golden Sun]

The people that uploaded them will, duh.

 

[Booze Zombie]

People are still playing this shitfest? Amzing what you learn from the news.

 

[Cubilone]

Not even them. Their stages will continue to be able.

 

[ZeroMachine]

Um... I haven't been able to upload/download stages and replays and the like for months, even though I can have matches over WiFi and stuff.

Weird. Guess my Wii is a prophet.

 

[not a zaar]

Not that I care about that game, but I cannot comprehend why Nintendo is either so stubborn or completely incompetent when it comes to online gaming.

 

[IrrelevantTangent]

Wait, what the hell? Wasn't making your own stages an important part of Brawl? Didn't the fans want it? Why in the name of the Hypnotoad would they take something like that away?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Wait, what the hell? Wasn't making your own stages an important part of Brawl? Didn't the fans want it? Why in the name of the Hypnotoad would they take something like that away?

Because the kind of players that would have made use of it played for a couple of months then went back to playing Melee.

Also people posting hacked maps might have something to do with it...

 

[Skreeee]

Who's the character under Samus in the picture? I don't own Brawl and don't remember seeing that one during the hype.

 

[Cucumber]

Who's the character under Samus in the picture? I don't own Brawl and don't remember seeing that one during the hype.

It's a charecter from an assist trophy. Don't know the name of it.

Anyways, I still play brawl regulary. But not online! Online + Nintendo = Fail...
Does me still playing brawl make me a social outcast? *whimper*

 

[Beefcakes]

Who's the character under Samus in the picture? I don't own Brawl and don't remember seeing that one during the hype.

Shes an assist trophy, like a pokemon style character that helps you for a while (most the time anyway...) them buggers off
I remember playing Brawl online, it was so laggy I never played or uploaded anything after 2 games online.
No loss for me

 

[KeyMaster45]

Sad to hear that, I never owned a copy myself but when my friends and I got together and....got....well drunk enough to think of playing it we saw some pretty interesting user level designs.

 

[WrongSprite]

To be honest, I'm wondering who's going to care.

The people that uploaded them will, duh.

Thats probably his point.

Thats not a lot of people.

 

[Mr. Fister]

Who's the character under Samus in the picture? I don't own Brawl and don't remember seeing that one during the hype.

It's a charecter from an assist trophy. Don't know the name of it.

It's Saki from Sin & Punishment.

And this news sucks, but it isn't a total loss. IGN still has their Smash Bros. site up if you want to upload stages, and there's more than a few sites where you can upload images.

 

[TheZaius]

Good thing there are OTHER WAYS to submit your stages online.

 

[calelogan]

This is sad news.

Games are not merely products but also services. We all know that legally the developers and publishers find ways to make it clear that they can stop providing a specific service at any time, but offering something and then taking it away is just an anti-consumer approach.

Though this might not be a total loss of content it definitely is a loss of credibility. Post-launch support needs to be taken seriously by whoever promises it.