"People are thirsty for the next big thing and suddenly we drop our game and it's an entire game-most fan games are only partially complete."Īnd yet, even with the DMCA takedowns, Involuntary Twitch can only feel thankful to Nintendo. "We didn't plan for our game to come out after Pokémon GO when Pokémon was at its peak of popularity," Involuntary Twitch says. Uranium also features all new regions and towns like the wintry village of Snowbank. If I were to make a game that's not Pokémon but just a basic monster-catching game that didn't have that name, the Pokémon YouTubers that ended up playing Ethereal Gates and spreading it wouldn't have done that." "Even just in the general sense of who's going to be playing Ethereal Gates-It's going to be the Pokémon fan base. "We certainly are leeching off of Nintendo," he says. People own their intellectual property, and you are not allowed to do whatever you want with it under the guise of 'we aren't charging.'"įor Evan Starr, the developer of Pokémon Ethereal Gates, another fan made game that features an entirely original cast of Pokémon, that fact is undeniable.
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Why would I buy someone's product when I can get a free version instead? Then it causes actual harm to that product line if the free product is substantially inferior. Lawyer Ryan Morrison told Wes in our feature about the catch-22 of fan games that "you can still be causing harm in the marketplace by just existing. You might think that the response from Nintendo feels unwarranted given the fact that Pokémon Uranium is free, obviously inferior to the latest Pokémon games, and that 1.5 million downloads still only represents a fraction of the average sales of a Pokémon game, but you'd be wrong.
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