Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content
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Garry's Mod and other similar games are how so many people get exposed to various different fan communities, characters, game-modes, and etc. that you'd think it'd essentially function as "free" marketing.
There's always the question of "What happens when Mario has a gun?", but you'd really hope that people would have the mental capacity to understand that it's not an official image or marketing material.
First, having your assets in Garry's Mod is, in my opinion, a ticking time bomb for those assets going viral. This can be good, however in Nintendo's case their target market is kids and naturally they want tight control over the (squeaky clean) image of their characters. They have spent decades building that brand recognition and association.
Second, the only people who are going to get angry about this are Turbo-nerds, and Nintendo has already turned their back on Turbo-nerds. The overlap between people who are mad about this and who were already mad about Yuzu has to be substantial.
I don't know. I think this sucks, and it's particularly sucky that they just filed a DMCA action and didn't contact the developer directly. I feel bad for Gary.
All in all, it seems that they want to send a message that messing with The Plumber is just about as bad as messing with The Mouse.
Well, we know now why Cosby was like that.
There are probably secrets about Nintendo that only the board and the yakuza members who sit in on board meetings know, and they're not telling.
Especially now that Japanese company leaders are realizing their IP is valuable outside of Japan and don't just treat translation and marketing outside of Japan as a complete after thought.
because that has nothing to do with the legal dilution of their ip
1. If making a fan made game, build it in secret and release it once it is finished. Otherwise it will suffer an early demise (see: Chrono Resurrection)
2. Don't build emulators for current gen consoles (or if you do, do it in secret). Piracy argument is much weaker if the hardware is no longer being sold.
3. Don't link any fan creations to your real or existing identities. Use throwaway accounts and brand new pseudonyms.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/garrys-mod-is-taking-...
If so, I'm somewhat surprised that a takedown notice can be so expansive as to include all GM content, and not just individually enumerated creations. I'm sure there are dozens or hundreds of IP violating Garry's Mod creations, but also thousands that don't. If there was just one single example of a Garry's Mod user that ripped a single sprite from a single Nintendo game, would that also necessitate a takedown of everyone's content?
Garry's mod remains the best bang for buck in terms of replayability and fun.
many many hours were spent on TTT
Sounds fair to me.
Doing nothing would literally cost them their company, because without exclusive rights to Super Mario, Zelda and so forth, they're just a manufacturer of subpar hardware.
It's just corporations like Nintendo that suck. It's definitely not alone in that group. We all need to stop giving them money.
It's true that you have to defend a trademark, but that doesn't actually mean you're required to go after anybody using your trademarks without authorization.
Trademark defense has nothing to do with this at the moment.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40160275
Destroying harmless creativity and amusement culture is evil.