Nintendo takes down Gmod content from Steam's Workshop

SDA · Apr 26, 2024

Bladexdsl said:
the new ceo he is a c***

You! Watch your mouth.

Bladexdsl · Apr 26, 2024

who are you captain america now?

BlueFox gui · Apr 26, 2024

i really REALLY REALLY need to know WHAT DO THEY FEAR, little billy downloading a mario model to play around will suddenly make the company go bankrupt????

munnimann · Apr 26, 2024

Half the comments here seem to have this idea that Furukawa, the CEO of a company worth over 60 billion dollars, sits down with Miyamoto and Doug Bowser every Wednesday afternoon to personally browse the Steam library and issue takedown requests whenever they see Mario's face and I find that very funny.

AkikoKumagara · Apr 26, 2024

HarveyHouston said:
Hey, just ran across this. Maybe it's all an elaborate hoax?

Nope. This is just wrong. Lol. Some random customer service agent who hasn't got a clue isn't the smoking gun Iris thinks it is, either.

Read this thread, as it has people actually opening their eyes a little bit:

There's no hoax, the DMCA is real. It sucks, but it is what it is. Nintendo is within its rights to take down uploads of their game assets.

BlusterBong · Apr 26, 2024

HRudyPlayZ said:
I seriously hope people start to reupload all those addons online, as a big FU to Nintendo.
Seriously, the world would be a better place if they went bankrupt over being as crappy with their fandom as currently.

Ligeia said:
Hopefully they'll piss off their fans enough for their recent games to finally be recognized as the lazy mediocre cashgrabs they are.

Kitocco said:
Absolutely true, and Nintendo is certainly a lot more business & legal-savvy nowadays if their recent behavior is anything to go by, customer goodwill be darned.
But it's worth remembering that companies are made up of multiple people, tons in this case. Corporate decisions like this come from the top, and people like Miyamoto & Sakurai are a looooot closer to the top than say, a janitor or a Holiday temporary legally-not-an-employee (AKA: """"""contractor""""""). They've had hands in many of Nintendo's biggest money-makers in their entire history, after all. And are literal spokespeople for the company when it comes to promotional videos like Directs.

But it is also worth remembering former CEO Iwata's words on fanworks as well. DMCA takedowns absolutely still happened under his time, but... not quite like this.

What are you, blind? Shit like this, even if it seems fake does not affect the bottom line or the PR as far as the Public Populace who doesn't spend any amount of time on sites like GBATemp, because outside of the digital newsfronts like Kotaku or TechGadget, which are always desperate for the next article that rakes in enough clicks to keep them afloat, The Press does not care because the major news organizations owned by NBC, Fox, ABC and the like know that a company like Nintendo DMCA'ing things or the current state of Gaming isn't newsworthy unlike where tropical storms are going or when a product needs to be recalled for example.

You want to know the last time I seen any form of the major news organization reported on anything gaming related live durring thier news show? It was when Epic Games expanded on Fortnite's creative mode by slapping on the ability to use thier Lego Fortnite gamemode's core mechanics in UEFN, but that was mainly becuase it was related to Lego, a company and brand that is actually treated much more seriously seriously beyond the gaming world, and that was before it was actually introduced into the game.

HarveyHouston · Apr 26, 2024

AkikoKumagara said:
Nope. This is just wrong. Lol. Some random customer service agent who hasn't got a clue isn't the smoking gun Iris thinks it is, either.

Read this thread, as it has people actually opening their eyes a little bit:

There's no hoax, the DMCA is real. It sucks, but it is what it is. Nintendo is within its rights to take down uploads of their game assets.

Man, I was sooo hyped for the "Nintendo is not a bully; it's all a hoax" theory! Now you've ruined my fun! :cry:

Oh, well. Good thing I'm only a casual Nintendo fan, anymore.

Metoroid0 · Apr 26, 2024

Ettino said:
Are you Mark Wahlberg? Why do you hate Asian people? Who's next on your list? George Takei? Also do you do the hand thing that Italians love to do when they're i-rated?

Please direct your hate mail to:
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (11-1 Hokotate-cho, Kamitoba, Minami-ku, Kyoto 601-8501, Japan

that adress sounds like some cryptic message from the aliens.

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AkikoKumagara said:
Nintendo is within its rights to take down uploads of their game assets.

(oh christ) i swear, people who saythis miss the point. i hear this a lot.

Kitocco · Apr 26, 2024

BlusterBong said:
What are you, blind? Shit like this, even if it seems fake does not affect the bottom line or the PR as far as the Public Populace who doesn't spend any amount of time on sites like GBATemp, because outside of the digital newsfronts like Kotaku or TechGadget, which are always desperate for the next article that rakes in enough clicks to keep them afloat, The Press does not care because the major news organizations owned by NBC, Fox, ABC and the like know that a company like Nintendo DMCA'ing things or the current state of Gaming isn't newsworthy unlike where tropical storms are going or when a product needs to be recalled for example.

You want to know the last time I seen any form of the major news organization reported on anything gaming related live durring thier news show? It was when Epic Games expanded on Fortnite's creative mode by slapping on the ability to use thier Lego Fortnite gamemode's core mechanics in UEFN, but that was mainly becuase it was related to Lego, a company and brand that is actually treated much more seriously seriously beyond the gaming world, and that was before it was actually introduced into the game.

Oh, so surely it wouldn’t matter if GBATemp, ROMHacking, or even the Mother 3 Translation Patch all got hit with C&Ds tomorrow, right? The MainStream is all that REALLY matters anyways, and it’s not like anything niche or across the ocean/language barrier has ever influenced anything that would become mainstream, right? =^]

Yeah yeah yeah, I’ve heard the whole “it doesn’t matter, it’s all meaningless, you’re even less than a microscopic spec in the galaxy, the universe doesn’t give a piss about you and your death won’t matter in the end” line of logic dozens of times.
But here’s the rub; this world is unequivocally better with people doing their own things, being passionate and whatnot. The internet would be a very boring place if it was the domain of only the now larger-than-life megacorps (I mean, just look at the “metaverse” in comparison to VRChat as it is now), and mimicking the cold & indifference to appear “cool” doesn’t really help you; at best, it’ll end you up unfulfilled in a crowd you have no business being with.

Besides, if the universe doesn’t care about us, why should we?

BlusterBong · Apr 26, 2024

Kitocco said:
Oh, so surely it wouldn’t matter if GBATemp, ROMHacking, or even the Mother 3 Translation Patch all got hit with C&Ds tomorrow, right? The MainStream is all that REALLY matters anyways, and it’s not like anything niche or across the ocean/language barrier has ever influenced anything that would become mainstream, right? =^]

There's quite the difference between something that came from overseas breaking barriers on the other side and the few times something that was seen as "obscure and niche" actually blew up and became a huge success. That was that they were advertised. Do you really think something from Overseas like Squid Game or Dragon Ball Z, or something that would be very "Niche" like the Barbie movie would have been nearly as successful had they just been allowed to air or put in theaters without much advertisement put to them? Let me tell you the answer for you, that being no, no it wouldn't, because that's not how media works in the world of the entertainment industry as a whole.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and that can be said with many of the big gaming properties that still exist today. Pokemon wouldn't have gotten nearly as big if it weren't for the advertising the Gen 1 games got alongside the cross-promotion of the Anime and the advertising that had. and that extends to many franchises that had end up going forever since their creation like SpongeBob or The Simpsons, franchises that both had major pushes in advertising and marketing early on and rode that momentum to continue the success of the show alongside the effort put in to maintain that large push of advertisement.

Even fucking Microsoft wasn't the Industry titan it is now, let alone the level of power they had in the 90s and early 2000s, they needed to build up software that could be sellable to consumer, and the advertisement push needed to get it out into consumer hands.

The main reason why things like GBATemp, ROMHacking, or even NexusMods fall behind when things like Palworld seemingly manages to break out into pop culture with ease is simple: They don't have the advertising needed to bust out into the mainstream. Palworld managed to become a big hit becuase of the advertising that PocketPair was able to afford managing to get a lot of word of mouth to people, which even the major news organizations wern't able to ignore as seen from them reporting on the game's success at the time, not unlike what Pokemon did in the 90s or even something more contemporarry like Yo-Kai Watch did in the 2010s.

If the above mentioned between GBATemp, ROMHacking, NexusMods, and Palworld was C&D'd or got involved in a lawsuit the next day, which one will pick up attention by the Fox News or NBCs of the world while the others will have thier news be brought onto hack jurno sites to farm clicks while people cry crocidile tears on Reddit and obscure fourms like this before moving onto the next big thing?

Ligeia · Apr 26, 2024

BlusterBong said:
What are you, blind? Shit like this, even if it seems fake does not affect the bottom line or the PR as far as the Public Populace who doesn't spend any amount of time on sites like GBATemp, because outside of the digital newsfronts like Kotaku or TechGadget, which are always desperate for the next article that rakes in enough clicks to keep them afloat, The Press does not care because the major news organizations owned by NBC, Fox, ABC and the like know that a company like Nintendo DMCA'ing things or the current state of Gaming isn't newsworthy unlike where tropical storms are going or when a product needs to be recalled for example.

You are right indeed, that was probably wishful thinking on my part. But with that being said, pissing off their fanbase is bound to take its toll eventually, I mean not this year, but maybe 5-10 years from now.

AkikoKumagara · Apr 27, 2024

Metoroid0 said:
(oh christ) i swear, people who saythis miss the point. i hear this a lot.

It's a fact, regardless.

Edit: I should note I am actually directly affected by this DMCA and had to remove content from my own Workshop as a precautionary measure. I'm not nearly as upset by this as people who aren't at all affected by it are.

SylverReZ · Apr 28, 2024

ShadowOne333 said:
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Nintendo might just as well be a law firm more than a videogame company at this point in time, since they have yet again issued their now ~~almost trademarked~~ usual DMCA strike, this time against mods in the Steam Workshop for on the most popular Half Life 2 mod, Garry's mod (or Gmod as it's usually referred to).

The news broke out yesterday, on April 24th, as Garry Newman announced that he would be taking down all Nintendo-related items gathered and made throughout almost 20 years since the inception of Garry's Mod back in the mid 2000s from the Workshop due to a DMCA by Nintendo.
This caused speculation online, as it has been known that often some people completely unrelated to Nintendo send false DMCA strikes for projects that might contain Nintendo assets of any kind (with some of those falsely made strikes sent by a person named Aaron Peters), and Newman was made known about it, with a research about the source of the sent-DMCA strike begun shortly after.

However, in a recently made post by Newman himself, he stated that "the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit", so the removal of Nintendo's items from the Workshop will continue as announced in his post from April 24th.

This is yet another instance of a fan project being taken down by Nintendo, and it's unlikely this is gonna end anytime soon given their increasingly aggressive abuse of the DMCA for anything fan-related.

Source

Nintendo did not file a DMCA takedown; rather, it was an impersonator/troll and not a representative of Nintendo.

Metoroid0 · Apr 28, 2024

AkikoKumagara said:
It's a fact, regardless.

It's a fact that is overused to death. Has no use or merit to consumers and gamers but only to corporate folks and nintendo employees.
Whenever someone doesnt want to see things from gamers and consumer perspective they just say the easiest and most overused phrase "its their right".
Laws are written by humans not gods you know? They arent perfect, and as such there is a lot thats not RIGHT about that law and its aplication.
Wile law give them that power its not a good law and doesnt protect consumers or gamers from their greed and non gamer and anti consumer practices.

And YES, WE ALL KNOW THAT ITS THEIR RIGHT, but it was nothing to do with gaming or points made against it.
SO phrase is overused and obvious and no one denies facts. So therefor its overused phrase. Its so annoying to read it. Id much rather have a debate than hear people say "its their right" and finish with that.

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