Nintendo is just too stingy with their copyright infringement.

[Fedoraless Wilson]

lol nernterndoes

inb4 this gets copyright claimed

http://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2016/09/08/nintendo-issues-dmca-takedowns-for-over-500-fan-games/#776580852dde

[Fedoraless Wilson]

tl;dr

Over 500 fan games on gamejolt were copyright claimed

[Devious]

Yes they are. But people are going to keep saying "it's their legal right" and defend Nintendo's interests even when they are opposed to their own as consumers. Isn't that insane?

[FFL2and3rocks]

I hope they don't take down my avatar.

[Teksura]

Nintendo is fanitically protective of their IP, and I think a large part of that is they want full control over what it represents.

The problem is this kind of mentality is pretty outdated. While it worked really well in the early days of video games where you wouldn't want another company making a knock-off version of your game, the age of the internet has changed everything.


These days, fan-games and fan-content are HUGE. And you know what I'm including youtube and twitch streams in "fan content" as well because Nintendo clamps down on those as well. The fact is, ANY fan content is free advertisment for your game. there are several games I never would have bought if I hadn't stumbled across a youtube playthrough (and a few of those playthroughs later got taken down due to a copyright claim by Konami). Nintendo is fighting against something that should be seen as free advertisment for their products. they want to discourage it at every step. And the consiquence of this is going to be that a lot less people will be interested.

Fan games in specific are really good at maintaining an audience. You get some people who really like a certain game, but it takes time to make the next one. In the meanwhile, there are fan-games. these fan-games are never on the same level, but help to keep people interested and eager to see the next official game. Kill those and it becomes a lot harder to maintain that interest, since now you have to maintain it alone, instead of relying on the fans to keep each other excited.

[Sticky Honeybuns]

Can't wait for Nintendo to fall into oblivion. Their communistic control of their brand will be the eventual downfall.

[Fedoraless Wilson]

i posted this as off-topic so I wouldn't get annoyed by "OMG OFF TOPIC NUB"

[Devious]

Originally posted by Fusion:

Originally posted by Devious:

Yes they are. But people are going to keep saying "it's their legal right" and defend Nintendo's interests even when they are opposed to their own as consumers. Isn't that insane?

I mean, they're not wrong.
Nintendo is allowed to do it.

So? There's a major difference between "legal" and "ethical". Worry about your own interests first, let big corporations worry about theirs.

[Unexpected]

nintendo's reputation is basically gone