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The Mario Kart World update was bad enough—but now even TALKING about it can get you banned. The game’s subreddit just silenced players for voicing frustration over Nintendo’s bizarre online changes, banning posts that criticize the latest patch. Fans are review bombing, raging over intermission tracks, and begging for basic racing modes… but now their voices are being shut down. Why are players being treated like the problem for giving feedback? Is this just another example of corporate silence and fragile moderation?
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what do you do when your favorite game
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gets a terrible update you complain
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right you vent you post online you try
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to be heard well in the case of Mario
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Kart World doing that will get you
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banned yeah banned for being too
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negative the backlash to this latest
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update has gotten so massive so chaotic
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that the subreddit for Mario Kart World
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which is home to over 17,000 fans
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basically told it community to shut up
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and move on and honestly that's a huge
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problem so here is the mod post says
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"Negativity post regarding the recent
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update are now banned the mod team have
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decided on this due to a flood of
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ranting and loweffort post about the
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update that made three lap tracks harder
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to select online we get it the update
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sucks." And we agree wow they they
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actually agree on this we've also
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unfortunately received messages from
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users that have left the subreddit
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over the toxic nature and rudeness of
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people in the comments from post
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regarding this topic so typical Nintendo
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fanboys you can't say anything bad about
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the Big N they left over that over
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criticism oh my gosh anyways continue on
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says "We don't want you to feel like
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you're being silenced or censored either
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so if you have any questions complaints
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or information regarding the 1.1.2
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update please discuss it in this thread
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rather than making a post about it this
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will help keep the subreddit tidier so
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basically they are locking any
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negativity or criticism about this
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update into a thread here's the thread
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the Mario Kart World 1.1.2
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update discussion thread and you can see
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they're saying uh that this is basically
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the place so that they can't feel that
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they're silenced right please discuss it
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here rather than posting about it since
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we've already had a flood of posts
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regarding this controversial update i
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get it you're a mod you don't want
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negativity to be around and all this
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stuff you can't say anything bad i don't
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understand why Reddit mods are always so
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censorship happy it's it's nuts in fact
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they got called out in a banger Reddit
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reply right here saying "I'm just going
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on the record censorship is not the
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way." And it's not it's a failure of the
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mods for not handling the situation
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correctly fortunately these niche
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subreddit isn't very relevant with many
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subreddits proving better quality of
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post while being more informative right
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they said "Note to any readers here pay
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attention to the upcoming firstp party
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Nintendo releases if you see a trademark
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made for a new title make the subreddit
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for it create the subreddit for it stop
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allowing these mods to collect power and
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abuse the public's goodwill moderation
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is not to be treated as a Pokemon card
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where you trade and swap positions and
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yet here we are mass bands are never the
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answer right and they said neither's
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harassment as the effective police
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officers of the subreddit it's your
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obligation to rise above the frenzy and
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behave correctly and sometimes that
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means taking one on the chin if you
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cannot do that then you are in the wrong
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position step down immediately what you
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guys do is not difficult in any way
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shape or form many of you moderate for
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the wrong reasons in fact the majority
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of you do i mean this is a huge call out
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a lot of people that are Reddit mod
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Discord mods they get power hungry they
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said what the moderation staff is
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showing us is pure laziness
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i mean I banger response there guys this
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Reddit keep an eye on it cuz it's it's
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it's on fire right now so here's the
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setup guys we talked about it the latest
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Mario Kart World update version 1.1.2
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seemed small in the patch notes one
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minor line buried in the log said that
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they tweaked how random tracks are
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selected during online play but what it
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really did though was make intermission
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tracks show up way more often these
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tracks are short onelap connections they
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were never popular in fact most players
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intentionally picked random to avoid
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them and they wanted real races right
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actual threelap competition but after
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this update good luck you're going to be
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stuck on short boring connector roads
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way more often in fact most of the time
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we've already talked about this in the
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updates from the last couple videos
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we've had where the Metacritic for this
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game is getting reviewbombed as we speak
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people aren't happy with this and that
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alone was enough to start this firestorm
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like I said this this update where it
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seems like Nintendo kind of wants to
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streamline and modernize stuff just to I
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guess no longer have choice for players
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choice is too much right reddit threads
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are exploding right now though instead
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of Nintendo stepping in with a fix or
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even just a response the Mario Kart
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World subreddit moderators took matters
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into their own hands like I just showed
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you guys and by take manners into their
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own hands they are literally banning
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people for criticizing the game too much
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and we've seen this in the past with
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Ubisoft subreddits for Assassin's Creed
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Shadows and other games this never ends
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well this always causes a huge backlash
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for the games and even if it's not the
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actual video game studios fault and it's
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some subreddit mod that's going rogue on
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behalf of the whole subreddit that they
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have emergency powers over it's never a
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good look okay the moderator that we
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just showed these screenshots from
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Michael 14375
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the post that they made saying that they
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would put a stop to all the loweffort
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ranting i mean loweffort dude come on
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you're literally going to be putting a
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blanket statement over all criticism
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according to him the subreddit just
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became too flooded with negative posts
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and complaints and and users are leaving
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because the space had become toxic why
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is it always the little weeb Nintendo
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people that get all oh we're just too
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toxic right the solution that this
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Michael guy had was to delete the
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complaints ban the ranting keep it clean
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and just to keep up appearances right
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they created that mega thread where
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where you're allowed we're allowing you
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to vent right how generous how generous
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of you Michael in the subreddit now look
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I get it guys if you're a mod and you
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see the same post 200 times in a week
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sure it's exhausting but when that many
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players are upset that's not spam all
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right it's a signal it's it means
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something in the game is genuinely
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broken instead of listening to it
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they're muting it on Reddit this is
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Mario Kart World the launch game for the
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Switch 2 this is what they gave us okay
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and they made this update and after a
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single misstep on it right the only
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online community that is on the Switch 2
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at this point is punishing people and
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now after this update which was a
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misstep because it's made a lot of
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people mad the only online community for
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this game the subreddit for Mario Kart
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World is punishing people for speaking
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up let that sink in they're punishing
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people for speaking up and that's not
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cool let's be honest okay players aren't
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just mad that Nintendo made this update
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that made it to where intermission
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tracks were more common they're mad
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because Nintendo made a decision that
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nobody asked for that nobody likes and
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now apparently nobody wants to fix and
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nobody wants to hear about it and you
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have subreddit mods acting like this is
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your fault for not liking it the right
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way and and again it's always the
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subreddit or Discord mods right it
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always happens this is something that
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we've covered in the past there was a
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whole hoopla about the Lords of the
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Fallen subreddit where they came out and
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actually banned the CEO from it the
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software studio that made that game this
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whole entire thing with the Mario Kart
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World subreddit really reflects a
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growing problem in gaming there's this
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weird push to treat criticism like
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toxicity you see it everywhere uh if you
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make a video talking about a public
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figure or a video game you're just being
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toxic and negative right you know that
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idea to say that if you complain you're
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part of the problem feedback is what
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keeps games alive guys it's what pushes
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devs to actually fix things and evolve
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and learn from their mistakes if players
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can't talk about what's wrong with Mario
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Kart World or what they don't like with
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Mario Kart World on its own subreddit
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where where can they talk about it
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the the official subreddit is a main
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place for a community to talk about this
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stuff and before you say "Oh well you're
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just salty and you're just crying." Look
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at what the fans are actually asking for
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we went over the Metacritic people are
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asking for this update to change they
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want proper threelap races they want a
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real Grand Prix they want the freedom to
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race their friends on full tracks not
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these filler intermission stages and
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that's not whining to give your take
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about it to give your opinion about it
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that's completely valid feedback but
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again the majority of these Nintendo
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fanboys out there they're like "Why are
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you crying you You guys need to pull the
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Nintendo out of your ass." All
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right and realize some of the stuff that
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they do is a misstep and it's perfectly
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fine for you to like it and for me not
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to and we can have a difference of
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opinion and and still be cool right why
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Why live in this world where you're not
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allowed to complain where you're not
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allowed to give an opinion at something
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and I'm not alone in this again there's
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people getting banned there's people
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posting everywhere about it tweeting
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about it you know maybe there was a lot
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of posts on the subreddit saying a lot
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of the same thing but maybe that's
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because a lot of people agree on it
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that's not spam that's a clear message
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so if Nintendo doesn't respond to this
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and the community isn't allowed to talk
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on the subreddit how are things supposed
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to improve for this game could somebody
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answer that how are we supposed to get
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Nintendo our feedback that that's going
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to be next to impossible mario Kart
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World has the potential to be one of the
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best online racers on the Switch too and
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it opened up great it had a great launch
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i was enjoying it i'm playing it like
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almost every other day but this update
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this update just basically
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put a wrench in all that it It ruined a
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lot of people's enjoyment of this game
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and the silencing of people that
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followed shortly after that's what
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pushes players away guys so let me ask
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you this do you think the mods made the
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right call banning these people and then
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putting them into their own little
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thread or is this just another example
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of censoring criticism when it's
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inconvenient drop your thoughts in the
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comments down below because I want to
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hear from you and if you're sick of this
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kind of stuff happening in video games
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we're just getting started here have a
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good one i'll see you on the next one
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peace out