Upsetting to say, but people should stop wasting time making fan-made Nintendo games. Clearly, they don't fucking like them.
This did nothing, only officially it did.
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Anyways.......
I don't see why is Nintendo bothered.
Its just a bunch of people having fun and sharing it with others online, for no profit whatsoever.
If nothing, they have free promotion of Metroid.
Its like me promoting Coca-Cola on my t-shirt and coca-cola comes at me and sue me
for giving them free publicity.
Another explanation is they are afraid a fan made game will be better than official (it will),
but so what?!
I fucking bought a switch for this one game, Metroid Dread, and preordered it!
I dont see how in any way shape or form they need to and have right to shut down someones fun time project.
I used to be a nintendo fan, now i feel sick of them.
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It's funny how people feel entitled that they should use Nintendo IP's. If Nintendo doesn't allow it they are Draconian and giving kind of hateful comments. Nintendo has every right to defend their IP's ,they created it. Its like you own a car and then people from the street get in your car and take it away without your permission. Would you take it lightly or would you do anything to get your car back? If Nintendo gets too lenient with projects like this, lots of people will be creating all kind of games from all of Nintendo IP's, meaning that it breaks the copyright issues layed out by Nintendo. Since everyone will be doing it, it could be problematic for Nintendo to stop people from creating unauthorized games without Nintendo's permission. Its all about legallity.
Why dont people try to make a fan made Final Fantasy games? Or a Castlevania one? You will get the same result: You will be NOT authorized to create a dedicated fan game using those IP's.
People go after Nintendo because they see them as a "Kid friendly" company and due to having such an image people expect Nintendo to keep quiet and allowing anyone to do whatever they want with their characters.
If you want to do a dedicated game containing Nintendo characters, you need to become a certified developer. Have your own game portofolio, aaaand if Nintendo likes what you are doing you might be lucky that they lend their characters to your company. One big example is Cadence of Hyrule. They did it the right way and got official permission to use characters from the Legend of Zelda games.
Its not in comercial purposes, its for fun.
This is not a minority report where you sue and arest people for doing nothing. Its literally few people having fun and promoting nintendo.
If nothing its a bad PR for them.
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Legally speaking, Nintendo has all the right in the world to kill this project. I still heavily disagree with it but the fan project does infringe on their copyrights.
so does a free publicity right?
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All you "legal" people talk bullshit, but whatever.
Laws are made by people so they arent perfect, and frankly some are stupid. Thats it.