| ▲ | weberer 3 hours ago |
| Its not even like they indiscriminately shut down fan projects either. Just the ones that try to make money. You still have sites like Pokemon Showdown and Advance Wars By Web that have been running for several decades without incident. |
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| ▲ | bananaboy 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| My friends and I made a game for Ludum Dare 36 called No Mario's Sky years ago and received a DMCA take down notice. We weren't selling it, but we still had to remove it. Maybe because Mario is 100% a Nintendo property but Pokemon and Advance Wars are co-owned with other companies. |
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| ▲ | ksymph 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| That's just not true. Off the top of my head: SMBX, Pokemon Uranium, Ocarina of Time 2D, AM2R. A few years back they mass DMCA'd hundreds of fan games on the site GameJolt, none of which were monetized. (why some fan projects like Showdown are still up is anyone's guess) |
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| ▲ | kipchak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| AM2R for example was distributed for free and DMCA-ed. |
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| ▲ | mghackerlady 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think they killed it because they were planning on showing off their own remake I think there are 3 rules to avoid getting the ninjas sent after you: 1) Don't try and make money
2) Don't do anything nintendo would realistically do
3) Don't touch mario. This one seems to be the most important. I see mario projects get killed all the time very early on in development, while am2r was allowed to exist until nintendo exercised rule number 2. I imagine the mother/earthbound fan works/translations will also be left alone if nintendo chooses to never touch that series again | | |
| ▲ | olivierestsage an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I feel like a toxic part of this cycle is that a successful fan project has the potential to actually inspire Nintendo to attempt to do the same thing, leading to #2 as a punishment for success. | |
| ▲ | kipchak an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I agree, though 2 seems pretty tricky to navigate/predict. For example I wouldn't have guessed Advanced Wars would get a new release after Days of Ruin, or with Earthbound I could maybe see Mother 3 finally getting a US release with how popular Undertale/Deltarune has been. Maybe the best option is to be as under the radar as possible until it's done and out. |
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| ▲ | SSLy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| they indiscriminately shut down any sight of online smash tournaments |
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