Met wrote:I find it hard to feel much sympathy for this. Nintendo are completely in their right to do so and if you're going to try and piggyback off of someone else's property you really should see it coming. The amount of fangames that get announced and shut down mean it's an insane task to vet each one and while 99.9% are probably totally above-board and in-line with Nintendo's ideals, they can't guarantee that 0.1% where Link is going around stabbing babies for crack money isn't there.
It's easy to paint Nintendo as the big bad corporation keeping the little guy down, but they're right.
I have to disagree here.
Fan fiction and fan games have always been about and surely just show just how popular a series or character is? I don't think people are going to stop buying Nintendo products because they buy a few fan games or read fan fiction.
Huge franchises always have fan knock-offs but people will always flock to the real thing as Nintendo games in particular have a mark of quality fans expect and are willing to pay for. The reason Nintendo are doing this is the same reason the deliberately under-stock easily manufactured hardware like the Nes/Snes Mini and that's because they can and people will defend them no matter what.