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Absolute madness - the latest Cooking Mama game has been delisted from the eShop for discreetly mining cryptocurrency with users’ consoles. https://twitter.com/nintendaan/status/1246851705318367235
Can we not just cook with our anime mama in peace?
The story behind this Cooking Mama game is insane.
There doesn’t even seem to be any assurance on WHO actually made this game - it doesn’t seem to be from the original publisher, but this game has always been treated as an official release. https://uk.ign.com/articles/the-cooking-mama-game-for-switch-that-came-out-and-then-disappeared
There doesn’t even seem to be any assurance on WHO actually made this game - it doesn’t seem to be from the original publisher, but this game has always been treated as an official release. https://uk.ign.com/articles/the-cooking-mama-game-for-switch-that-came-out-and-then-disappeared
Should’ve clocked this was fishy, but honestly, how could anyone have guessed? Crazy stuff.
https://twitter.com/toadsanime/status/1160942801892401153?s=21 https://twitter.com/toadsanime/status/1160942801892401153
https://twitter.com/toadsanime/status/1160942801892401153?s=21 https://twitter.com/toadsanime/status/1160942801892401153
I managed to contact the Cooking Mama: Cookfest developers regarding the delisting and mining claims:
“As the developers we can say with certainty there is no cryptocurrency or data collection or blockchain or anything else shady in the code.” (1/2)
“As the developers we can say with certainty there is no cryptocurrency or data collection or blockchain or anything else shady in the code.” (1/2)
“The Nintendo Switch is a very safe platform, with none of the data and privacy issues associated with some mobile and PC games.”
I personally received the press release I quote tweeted earlier, so can confirm that is legitimate. The press release does seem to contradict this statement.
Bit confused as to what’s going on.
Bit confused as to what’s going on.
From dev regarding blockchain press release:
“This is a release from Feb 2019, and we presume hypothetical like most releases about blockchain are. Blockchain was never brought up to us developers, and we were entertained to hear about in late 2019. Not happening anytime soon.”
“This is a release from Feb 2019, and we presume hypothetical like most releases about blockchain are. Blockchain was never brought up to us developers, and we were entertained to hear about in late 2019. Not happening anytime soon.”
Intrigued to see what dataminers uncover. My current train of thought is it doesn’t mine, but is just poorly optimised, and its delisting is an unrelated licensing issue. We’ll see - very interesting story!
https://twitter.com/doesitplay1/status/1246918007902875648?s=21 https://twitter.com/doesitplay1/status/1246918007902875648
https://twitter.com/doesitplay1/status/1246918007902875648?s=21 https://twitter.com/doesitplay1/status/1246918007902875648
It would seem the blockchain code was there at some point but was removed, which is likely what caused the poor optimisation.
Very strange story. Devs didn’t seem in the know on the blockchain plan but it definitely existed at a publisher level.
https://twitter.com/itssimontime/status/1246876716124913664?s=21 https://twitter.com/itssimontime/status/1246876716124913664
Very strange story. Devs didn’t seem in the know on the blockchain plan but it definitely existed at a publisher level.
https://twitter.com/itssimontime/status/1246876716124913664?s=21 https://twitter.com/itssimontime/status/1246876716124913664
