The END of Pokémon Fan Games?

Today we're discussing the devastating DMCA takedown of a popular Fan-Made Pokémon Games website and what it could mean for the future...

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[duskplains]

People supporting the take down of fan games never truly understood Pokémon

[CrashHeelin]

They send a dmca to a site full of non-profit passion projects, but they’re fine with shotty ads that’s promoting what is essentially bootleg pokemon? Talk about company double standards.

[reed]

This happens every few years ultimately it'll be fine. I remember when Zeta, omicron and other games were taken down around 2016-2017 but they're back up now. A few years ago they tried to take down YouTube channels uploading soundtracks, released like a handful of tracks themselves, gave up and just let the people upload again. Relic castle will probably come back in some form either from another fan or the same creator maybe not now but in a few weeks/months. The whole takedown thing comes in waves you just gotta wait for things to settle down.

[ShayTheValiant]

To be fair with the Palworld mod, that was locked behind a paywall. But Relic Castle was free with no ads, so I don't know the reasoning behind that one.

[insufferableanarchist]

I don't think pokemon realizes that fan games are what keep people from dropping pokemon entirely.

[aaronvasseur]

It’s not the end people will find a way to make and publish more

[TheSixthSLoT]

Dude, Nintendo needs to chill out and realize that fan content is COMPLEMENTARY to their IP's. The more something can get circulated around, the more awareness it gets. The more awareness a franchise gets, the better it will be for merch sales. Just let people be fans and geek out over the franchise. None of these fan games threaten Nintendo's official products. Anyone seeking out these niche fan games is doing so because they're already consumers of the official products. Anyone who's only playing fan games without buying any of the real games isn't going to go out and spend money on the official games if fan games get banned. All this over protection is so stupid on Nintendo/GameFreak's part.

[astromenuisix]

Damm... that with the taken down of Citra and Yuzu, Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are going ham on the fan game, mods, and other ways to create fan games and enjoy them. This is the beginning of the end of an era for the community.

I know they are doing it mostly for copyright and the way they are seeing steeling ideas in japan. But, this is sad and harsh...

[RariYork]

I remember finding you back in when i was younger through watching your playthrough of Zeta and Omnicron and your playthrough of Pokemon Ash Gray. It breaks my heart seeing The Pokemon Company doing this since these fan games have allowed for so much creativity and have helped create such a positive impact on the Pokemon Community. I hope The Pokemon Community can learn to understand that and change their mind so we can continue to play more amazing fan games.

[OkamiLyra]

Good god, I've never seen a company that hates its fanbase as much as TPC.

[holyseraphimon]

Pokémon can’t handle fans doing a better job than them 😂

[Zistheone]

Not sure why they’re doing these strikes & DMCAs now, but my guess is that Nintendo/TPC are doing this because Japan has stricter copyright laws that they do in US and may consider this stuff as stealing.

I remember how Totally Not Mark had a similar situation from Toei with his Dragon Ball & One Piece videos, or how Suede received a serious DMCA for his “Suede’s Pokemon Journey” series because of how they both included clips from the shows in their videos, which violated Japan’s copyright laws

[pokefandan]

i will always hold the viewpoint that tpci and other pokemon related comanies will just randomly strike a video or site down to "get people to play official games" just so they can make money. they dont care about the fan games they just care that its costing them money

[pokelover]

This is so messed up, first it was anime review content a couple years back and now they are going after fangames. Why? They are just a way for people to express their love for the franchise and create their own stories

[ArtisticSoul]

I swear they do this bull around the time that a new official game is going to be released. At least that's what I remember around the time they shut down Uranium. I'm pretty sure something like this happened around the release of Sword and Shield too.

[ronnieketchum]

Yes, Internet is unstoppable. Fan games won't stop. Neither would anything. People will enjoy everything. But the fact these attacks even happen is kinda scumy. Like you really think these projects that are the hours of hardwork of multiple people that are made available for absolutely 0 costs is gonna be stealing from Pokémon company. It's stupid really.

[sjotsu]

I remember playing the online fan game Pokemon Omega back in 2011-2013ish? And I loved it so much and the Pokemon company shut it down and it was heart breaking.

[TamunaTsertsvadze]

As a developer of another Pokemon fan game, this is so sad to hear! 😢😢

[baddragonite]

If the Pokemon company wants to stop fan support then fans should pull ALL of their support of Pokémon

[matthood]

If anything, relic castle introduced more people to the world of Pokémon. Such a shame