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Nintendo of America takes action against the fangame Pokémon Uranium.
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...the ROM hack showcases over a hundred new Pokémon...
This is good thing and maybe it should be mentioned in the article.It's really not gone, as you can easily find torrents and copies of the game. Only the official link has been removed. There's no getting rid of it now that it's finished.
Nintendo has to protect their IP or else they lose it. They probably don't care. They did it because it was getting a little too big, and I highly doubt they care that it's still floating around and people are playing it.if they're not making money from it, who the **** cares? people aren't going to play Uranium, or any other fangame for that matter, without being a fan of the game first.
correction: Uranium is not a ROM hack.
if they're not making money from it, who the **** cares? people aren't going to play Uranium, or any other fangame for that matter, without being a fan of the game first.
The fact that it is free yet really popular and (supposedly, I haven't played it) as good as an official Pokemon game is actually a fairly big problem, since you have to buy the official games, and if you don't have it you also have to buy the console. So this could be a free alternative to playing a modern Pokemon game for people who don't have or don't want to spend money. Shutting down popular fan games is basically a way to keep the attention to the official games.
That party case was more serious than Pokémon Uranium because they had sold tickets to that party and therefore made money by using Pokémon without permission. Pokémon Uranium is free game so the creators will avoid legal issues.I hope the creators are able to avoid any legal issues since they took action somewhat preemptively, but I just keep thinking back to the guys who got sued over their Pokemon PAX party last year, and how they still had to pay even though they cancelled the party.