The END of Pokémon Fan Games?

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  • Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
  • 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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Комментарии • 488

  • @duskplains1235
    @duskplains1235 6 месяцев назад +905

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

    • @shadowmaskplayzlit5433
      @shadowmaskplayzlit5433 6 месяцев назад +26

      My favorite Wes Pokémon glazed pls tell me this is not true 😢😭😭😭

    • @cookiesontoast9981
      @cookiesontoast9981 6 месяцев назад +92

      It's not just Pokemon. Any fan games for any franchise should be respected and allowed to be released.

    • @1RamTough
      @1RamTough 6 месяцев назад +37

      You mean like Verlisify?

    • @Augustus228
      @Augustus228 6 месяцев назад +66

      @@1RamToughthe dude who said legends arceus was the only glitchy pokemon game and scarlet and violet have no performance issues whatsoever. Yeah thats the guy

    • @derredviperignaciofuto4097
      @derredviperignaciofuto4097 6 месяцев назад

      Because they lack brain cells

  • @CrashHeelin
    @CrashHeelin 6 месяцев назад +435

    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.

    • @likky1
      @likky1 6 месяцев назад +23

      I don’t think they got a choice on the matter when it comes to the ads. A lot of other companies face the same issues and can’t do anything about it

    • @raymanfreak7739
      @raymanfreak7739 6 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@likky1That and this happened only now after 10 years. Kind of hard to really do much else when you've only started to go full on.

    • @naganut9718
      @naganut9718 6 месяцев назад +7

      Relic Castle already exists for a long time, and those ads are dime and dozens

    • @MunchingOrange
      @MunchingOrange  6 месяцев назад +42

      Crazy how many blatant knock offs ads I've seen, especially for mobile games

    • @CrashHeelin
      @CrashHeelin 6 месяцев назад +2

      ⁠@@MunchingOrange100 agreed - I’m sick and tired of seeing them on RUclips

  • @aaronvasseur6559
    @aaronvasseur6559 6 месяцев назад +225

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

    • @mysteriousz4050
      @mysteriousz4050 6 месяцев назад +22

      Life finds a way

    • @Pranjalplays_
      @Pranjalplays_ 6 месяцев назад +21

      yea I mean uranium got taken down but there's still so many links to download it

    • @MrKingkz
      @MrKingkz 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@Pranjalplays_100%

    • @spike2007
      @spike2007 6 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@Pranjalplays_ can i have the link i wanted to play pokemon uranium for so long

    • @charnalk5572
      @charnalk5572 6 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@Pranjalplays_That's actually not true, Uranium was not taken down by Nintendo, the core dev team just got scared cuz Nintendo was taking down metroid fangames around that iirc (and prism, might be wrong on that).
      That's why they are still making a "sequel", not sure if it's a sequel but it looks to be a spiritual successor.

  • @reed8136
    @reed8136 6 месяцев назад +91

    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 RUclips 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.

    • @monakasan7486
      @monakasan7486 6 месяцев назад +1

      but I do wonder though, now that Relic Castle is gone, where do we find fan games at one place, including newer ones that not many people know about? I know we can google some games that we know of but most links lead to weird ads

    • @lorimartin6819
      @lorimartin6819 6 месяцев назад +14

      Yeah, I’m sure people will continue to find ways to post and play fan-games, people will always find a way on the internet. But still, the fact that the Pokémon company really mistreats it’s community like this is still unfair. Fan- games help keep a fandom alive.

    • @monakasan7486
      @monakasan7486 6 месяцев назад

      @@lorimartin6819 where should we go now? :(

    • @lorimartin6819
      @lorimartin6819 6 месяцев назад +2

      @@monakasan7486 I don’t know much about the fan game websites unfortunately. Can’t fully help with that search, sorry. I’m sure someone else here might know something. Or maybe someone will make a new site, not right now understandablely, but maybe someday.

    • @monakasan7486
      @monakasan7486 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@lorimartin6819 I remember there was another active one like Relic Castle, but it's been a few years since I checked it out and I have totally forgotten the name of the site. :( But yeah, hopefully you are right and we will get a new site soon

  • @ShayTheValiant
    @ShayTheValiant 6 месяцев назад +164

    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.

    • @TheHuggableEmpire
      @TheHuggableEmpire 6 месяцев назад +18

      The only reasoning you need is: Nintendo.

    • @Svithi.N.98
      @Svithi.N.98 6 месяцев назад

      I think uranium was taken down all those years back for similar reasons as well... Some of the ppl involved were using patreon or something to earn from it

    • @zemellion26
      @zemellion26 6 месяцев назад +7

      Because they are just taking assets from actual Pokémon. That’s actually illegal. If their regions were just fan designed Pokemon it would be fine

    • @JayTeeBeez
      @JayTeeBeez 6 месяцев назад +13

      ​@@TheHuggableEmpireerrr I don't think that's true there's definitely a lot of fan games with on relic that were just fakemon

    • @aaaa-rf7hs
      @aaaa-rf7hs 6 месяцев назад

      Stop bootlicking ​@@zemellion26

  • @insufferableanarchist
    @insufferableanarchist 6 месяцев назад +529

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

    • @generaldane
      @generaldane 6 месяцев назад +44

      I doubt the amount of ppl fangames are keeping from dropping Pokémon is significant enough to make a dent in their business to be honest, niche fans have a tendency of overestimating their value, Pokémon's longevity have more to do with its ability to keep capturing new generations of fans

    • @AMidgetWalrus
      @AMidgetWalrus 6 месяцев назад +25

      @@generaldane True, but I feel like this will likely affect at least a few content creators. Less content creators = less visibility to Gen Alpha = less overall relevance. Kids arent watching TV these days, so they are less likely to see it from the anime.

    • @piranhalettuce
      @piranhalettuce 6 месяцев назад +19

      @@generaldane "niche fans have a tendency of overestimating their value"
      Mystery Dungeon Fans in a nutshell.

    • @zemellion26
      @zemellion26 6 месяцев назад +4

      That’s not essentially true

    • @generaldane
      @generaldane 6 месяцев назад +9

      @@AMidgetWalrus This is fair I guess it remains to be seen, though as some one who've been paying since Gen 1 in the late 90s I remember when people claim it was a fad that would dissappear into obscurity and that has decidedly not happen, if anything it's as popular as it has ever been now

  • @OkamiLyra
    @OkamiLyra 6 месяцев назад +22

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

    • @zeanone9257
      @zeanone9257 6 месяцев назад +2

      But the smash community exists

    • @OkamiLyra
      @OkamiLyra 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@zeanone9257 I have like zero Smash community knowledge, so I'll take your word for it

  • @TheSixthSLoT
    @TheSixthSLoT 6 месяцев назад +130

    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.

    • @pixelperfectstreamarchive7176
      @pixelperfectstreamarchive7176 6 месяцев назад +4

      Well I'm still completely expecting them to come after my crappy little Another Code demake I happened to make at the same time they were finishing the remake of both. Because it's a Nintendo-console based franchise from all the way back 20 years ago.
      But if they don't, and only focus on Pokemon, assumedly because I demade the original singular 20 year old DS game instead of the two-in-one Switch game that hadn't even come out by Christmas 2023 (when I released mine) and Pokemon is 'still new with frequent new stuff', I'm just gonna call Zubatcrap.
      I'm hoping my demake has people try the original DS game and Wii sequel, as well as the remakes!!
      We're clearly trying to show we love the franchises. Why punish us when we're not making money or being a threat??

    • @zebimicio5204
      @zebimicio5204 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@pixelperfectstreamarchive7176
      " Why punish us when we're not making money or being a threat??"
      Because of the few that did sadly.

    • @Socioromanticism
      @Socioromanticism 6 месяцев назад +2

      Anecdote, but I'm a big Pokémon fan.
      My friend isn't and has only played Pokémon Legends: Arceus and...Pokémon Infinite Fusion.
      My friend plays more games than me, so if anyone is indicative of a gamer, it's him.
      And there's probably less overlap than you say between the folks who buy every Pokémon game and those who play fan games.
      Most people who play Pokémon may not even have their own computers anymore to play a fan game. I have a Chromebook and my phone. But I've bought every version of the mainline games on the Switch and 3DS.

    • @NoTimef_r
      @NoTimef_r 6 месяцев назад

      Yea no fan game threatens their official games but everyone usually voices out loud about them being better... So hmm 🤔(note this is 99% not actually the reason)

    • @pixelperfectstreamarchive7176
      @pixelperfectstreamarchive7176 6 месяцев назад

      @@GamenessViejo We ARE though, that's the whole point XD We don't make fangames and demakes because we don't like the original games. We're just adding to the collection of stuff to play.

  • @astromenuisix7346
    @astromenuisix7346 6 месяцев назад +139

    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...

    • @TyshaggyGaming
      @TyshaggyGaming 6 месяцев назад +22

      Not to mention this *DESTROYS* the ability to preserve games

    • @renantemerin9248
      @renantemerin9248 6 месяцев назад +20

      They seriously didn't take down one of those Peta dark flash games of their games... Because it's their stupidity and greed that is it!

    • @italianbaptist
      @italianbaptist 6 месяцев назад +10

      The PETA thing, as sick as it is, would qualify under parody which falls under fair use. They can’t take it down; they probably wanted to.
      I think the reason they go after fan games rather than things like fan art or even things like Poketuber regions is because the case is easier to defend that it has “an upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.” That’s the last of the fair use tests.

    • @praggodey
      @praggodey 6 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@renantemerin9248we must think logically for cases like Peta where they legally can't take it down

    • @naganut9718
      @naganut9718 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@renantemerin9248 dude stop blaimg everything on "greedy company" shit

  • @RariYork
    @RariYork 6 месяцев назад +13

    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.

  • @warlynramonwarkyn2083
    @warlynramonwarkyn2083 6 месяцев назад +46

    I feel sad about the fan games.

  • @holyseraphimon1466
    @holyseraphimon1466 6 месяцев назад +312

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

    • @Terrorising._.Schmetterling
      @Terrorising._.Schmetterling 6 месяцев назад +4

      REAL!

    • @naganut9718
      @naganut9718 6 месяцев назад +9

      I fucking hate this point. Don't get me wrong I hate that Relic Castle got DMCA'd but this point fucking sucks. Making a derivative fan game using already existing engine and recycled assets with as much time as you want are completely different then making a new game on a company with a strict deadline

    • @AsinfulParadox
      @AsinfulParadox 6 месяцев назад +8

      I... Hope you blaming the black suits at the top and not the devs since they have no control over any of the business side of things.

    • @charnalk5572
      @charnalk5572 6 месяцев назад +2

      Pokemon devs have to follow a strict policy that prehibits them from looking up fan creations online :/
      This is not what people have in mind, this Nintendo being Nintendo and defending their copyright (even if the sprites were "fanart", the designs and name still fall under Nintendo. Unless the fangames where just "spiritual successors", they 'd always be under Nintendo's radar).

    • @vikramrajendran9932
      @vikramrajendran9932 6 месяцев назад +5

      ​@naganut9718 1) Nintendo themselves are the one who make the deadline they could have just made the deadline at a later date 2) what do you think nintendo does for all the pokemon games they release on 1 console do you think they come up with entirely new code every single time for the game ? 3) 1 is a multi billion dollar company and the other is a small company of people that do it as a hobby/ a single person making the fan game even if what you say about Nintendo is the case excuse me for having the standard expectations of a proper multi billion dollar company who does this as their main business 💀

  • @Zistheone2
    @Zistheone2 6 месяцев назад +11

    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

  • @TamunaTsertsvadze
    @TamunaTsertsvadze 6 месяцев назад +10

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

  • @sjotsu4000
    @sjotsu4000 6 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @ArtisticSoul347
    @ArtisticSoul347 6 месяцев назад +8

    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.

  • @truditat
    @truditat 6 месяцев назад +31

    We need our justice for the Pokemon Fan-Games!

  • @TheRealKman
    @TheRealKman 6 месяцев назад +8

    This is 100% because of palworld, they have had them on edge and after the pokemon mod they probably though that its time to dmca everything so people can only focus on pokemon games and nothing else because they've finally realized that most of the fan games and pal world, although inspired by them have surpassed them especially with how tragic sv's release were, and now they're shitting themseleves 😂

    • @LuigiTheMetal64
      @LuigiTheMetal64 6 месяцев назад +1

      Palworld would last for a short time. The "body type" mindset happened when the developers said "Americans sometimes want to make very ugly characters." On top of that "male" and "female" are swapped to make it seem like "female" is "body type 1", for example, making it even more confusing to anyone.

    • @TheRealKman
      @TheRealKman 6 месяцев назад

      @LuigiTheMetal64 I mean honestly how long pal world lasted doesn't matter, the initial impact made people realize that Nintendo and game freak were not delivering anything unique or new in pokemon anymore and that's what caused them to fear losing their fans, because if people realize their is better stuff and it's cheaper than pokemon everyone will play that instead

    • @totalmisplay
      @totalmisplay 5 месяцев назад

      @@TheRealKman ​ @LuigiTheMetal64
      Palworld is still going strong for being off-brand. It's 23k in-game right now on Steam Alone. Palworld only seems like its dying off because its content is limited at the moment so its easy to burn out on, but the game is still in Early Access (I think Alpha...?) and they far exceeded sales expectations which gives them a lot more money to work with, so their resources are expanding. Anyone who is business oriented, namely Nintendrones, would notice this and feel fear. Though, I think this is largely unrelated to Palworld, I do genuinely believe that Freak (they dropped the "Game" a while ago) just has sadistic tendencies and likes to spit on their fans to make a point, since whenever they do this seems almost random and arbitrary. I just hope I get to live long enough to see Nintendo, or at least Freak, die and all those people be out of jobs.

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@TheRealKman Lol no. Diehard fans spammed Pokémon to investigate Palworld and they basically said "We'll take a look" and they never did. Taking Palworld down would've been bad for business and been legally shaky since Digimon and other franchises do the "mon" thing too. Palworld is down 95% of its peak player count now. It'd be way higher if they sued it.

    • @MrRobot2027-wd9iw
      @MrRobot2027-wd9iw 5 месяцев назад

      @@LuigiTheMetal64 I want to play as a Fat Furry, but the SJWs dislike bigger women.

  • @NerdMania2000
    @NerdMania2000 6 месяцев назад +13

    I found your channel back when rijon adventures was still a thing
    This news sucks, hope this won’t be the end of fan games as it’s made by the love of the fans for the franchise we all love
    This wouldn’t have been an issue if they hired the fans who genuinely love this franchise to be developers on the main games

    • @linkster362
      @linkster362 6 месяцев назад

      For me it was way back with pokemon glazed

  • @machodgdon
    @machodgdon 6 месяцев назад +144

    Pokémon truly hates their fans

    • @Zion042
      @Zion042 6 месяцев назад

      We know is not a pokemon who hate a fans but ni*te*d* itself who hate "Anything" this fan really like and *int*ndo cannot make any profit from it

    • @Sonario648
      @Sonario648 6 месяцев назад +5

      More like Japan has stricter copyright laws than the West.

    • @OdaSwifteye
      @OdaSwifteye 5 месяцев назад

      @@Sonario648 And yet Sega hires people who are good at making Sonic fan art.

  • @Brickpit-d9p
    @Brickpit-d9p 6 месяцев назад +12

    This news is devastating, hopefully this isn’t the end of fan games. I feel bad for the creators of the games they spent a long time on them for others to enjoy. 😢

    • @charnalk5572
      @charnalk5572 6 месяцев назад +5

      Everything of worth was already archived, this is just one source that died but something else would take its place pretty soon.

    • @Natikkingofchhindwara
      @Natikkingofchhindwara 3 месяца назад

      ​@@charnalk5572we still have poke community and some other websites 😁 and something else will take relic castle place again

  • @baddragonite
    @baddragonite 6 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @julieta8683
    @julieta8683 6 месяцев назад +6

    I hope Pokémon fan games never end because it's the only way I can continue playing Pokémon on my laptop and continue my love for Pokémon in general now that I don't watch the anime anymore since they changed the artstyle 😔🤞🏻💕🎮

  • @1RamTough
    @1RamTough 6 месяцев назад +5

    The Pokémon company hasn’t created a good game in years, so their solution to ‘win back fans’ is to attack the fan base. What a bunch of assholes.

  • @houzukimaru1
    @houzukimaru1 6 месяцев назад +13

    and again nintendo strikes down their fans and their works of love, beautyfull.

  • @theorangeninjagames
    @theorangeninjagames 6 месяцев назад +5

    I can’t believe Pokémon did this because this is just a loving non profit game and community and I also loved playing the Roblox Pokemon games too and still miss them to this day

  • @pokelover1743
    @pokelover1743 6 месяцев назад +42

    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

    • @novazero9461
      @novazero9461 6 месяцев назад +12

      Cuz they don't care about their fans love only their money

    • @SnoFitzroy
      @SnoFitzroy 6 месяцев назад +4

      It's literally a copyright violation. I agree these fangames should be allowed to exist but they are literally violating copyright, which is illegal. Would you rather they take these people to court?

    • @pokelover1743
      @pokelover1743 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@SnoFitzroy obviously not, but it would be nice for them to at least lay out what expectations and conditions fangames should be held to so these dmca's don't happen

    • @novazero9461
      @novazero9461 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@SnoFitzroy true however why did they waited so long with some of these? Taking a 7 year old video down just recently is a bit odd to me.
      Im pretty convinced that it's just to eliminate every possible way that could lower their profits. But that's just what im guessing

    • @sweetwolfsteve5583
      @sweetwolfsteve5583 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@novazero9461they didn't have a problem with emulators and fan games until palworld showed up

  • @pokefandan4619
    @pokefandan4619 6 месяцев назад +49

    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

    • @ternel
      @ternel 6 месяцев назад

      Yo it's a chugga fan. Hope he's doing OK. Miss his content.

    • @jimmyhook4852
      @jimmyhook4852 6 месяцев назад

      @@ternel Same.

    • @Jetbladewarrior
      @Jetbladewarrior 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@ternel same.

    • @BladeMasterIcarus
      @BladeMasterIcarus 6 месяцев назад +5

      meh pokemon fan games aren't harmful. There is overlap between the two after all. Though for older audience of pokemon fans I can totally see them playing fan games more if they liked the 2d art style better.

    • @zebimicio5204
      @zebimicio5204 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@BladeMasterIcarus It usually doesn't, but when you get some ahole or two that monetized or got donourship from it, Nintendo is VERY aggressive in this regard.

  • @PabloLopez-hz2hq
    @PabloLopez-hz2hq 6 месяцев назад +7

    DAMN I havent seen that Pokemon Insurgence playthrough in years. That takes me back.

  • @ronnieketchum1241
    @ronnieketchum1241 6 месяцев назад +6

    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.

  • @timroehm1728
    @timroehm1728 6 месяцев назад +4

    When Satoru Iwata died so did Nintendo

  • @malikstephens2636
    @malikstephens2636 6 месяцев назад +4

    You and this RUclipsr named purpleRodri were one of my first pokemon RUclipsrs that i watched and played through with pokemon heart gold, black and white and omega ruby and alpha sapphire

  • @boiyonetta
    @boiyonetta 6 месяцев назад +4

    Pokemon are just salty that BDSP, Scarlet and Violet was so heavily criticised; and they saw how successful Palworld was and went into a tantrum rage. relic castle was an unfortunate victim.
    Essentially Relic Castle fosters creativity amongst the creation of fake pokemon with fan projects and Nintendo cannot have fans create new pokemon designs which outshine official designs because it would limit their ability to come up with unique designs.
    Its very petty in my opinion. If The Pokemon company and nintendo continues, I can see a day where nobody will care about pokemon. A multimillion dollar franchise collapsed and dead in the water.

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад

      Oh come on, Palworld was nothing. People asked them to go after Palworld after seeing the questionably legal designs, they did nothing about it, and then Palworld dropped 95% of its player base because most casual gamers don't care about Pokémon much. TPC couldn't care less if Gamefreak and Creatures get ridiculed, they just want their money and they'll keep getting it.

  • @matthood8047
    @matthood8047 6 месяцев назад +40

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

  • @WesleyvL2006
    @WesleyvL2006 6 месяцев назад +6

    Pokemon is just mad that fans make better games then them

  • @KimFareseed
    @KimFareseed 6 месяцев назад +8

    I have a feeling that SkyTemple will be very cautious for the forseeable future.

    • @Twinleaf_2623
      @Twinleaf_2623 6 месяцев назад

      Don't give them any ideas!

  • @nastia8921
    @nastia8921 6 месяцев назад +72

    so devastating :/ the entire community is held up by fan games

    • @itsmarshallll2600
      @itsmarshallll2600 6 месяцев назад +6

      Not the entirety. Been playing Pokemon since maybe 2002 and I never played a single fan game.

    • @christianr.5868
      @christianr.5868 6 месяцев назад +8

      @@itsmarshallll2600you’re missing out

    • @invertedLOL
      @invertedLOL 6 месяцев назад +17

      It’s not that the entire community is being held up by fan games, or even that every Pokémon fan should be forced to love and play fan games, it’s that fan games are sub section of the community. It’s people’s passion and work that is being ripped away from them. It’s people who want more out of Pokémon, who, time and time again, have been denied by TPC. They found their own way to enjoy Pokémon and are now being punished for it.

    • @porkhill6665
      @porkhill6665 6 месяцев назад +3

      Good job comment​@@invertedLOL

    • @MegaPokefan97
      @MegaPokefan97 6 месяцев назад +2

      Bro, the Pokémon fandom is mostly children whose parents would never let them download an emulator

  • @circledude2362
    @circledude2362 6 месяцев назад +3

    We need to move all Pokemon fan game content to Rumble, Newgrounds and Vimeo.

  • @gazzeerbeheerst3278
    @gazzeerbeheerst3278 6 месяцев назад +3

    We as a community should make very clear to Nintendo that we don’t like what they did. And make a stance. They should feel the harm they done here

  • @genericexcuse7803
    @genericexcuse7803 6 месяцев назад +2

    It's bc they're salty that their quality was challenged over Palworld.

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад

      Palworld is down 95% on its player count. All the casual gamers moved on to Helldivers.

  • @chaosdragon.
    @chaosdragon. 6 месяцев назад +17

    Pokemon just eant to make where only they can make Pokemon game. Probably soon they'll go after fanart, and anyone who uses sounds/cries for stuff on Twitch and YT. I enjoy the fan games and fanart much more than the official stuff. The fact that a company will destroy someone's creativity like that is just saddening.

    • @SnoFitzroy
      @SnoFitzroy 6 месяцев назад +2

      "they jsut wanna make it so only they can make pokemon games"
      Uhh...they already are my guy. Do you not know how the law works? No matter how good a fangame is, it's still a copyright violation. TPC are *legally* in their right to take down anything they didn't authorize. If your argument is from a legal perspective, you will lose every time. The thing that needs to be debated is whether those laws are just, which they mostly aren't but yeah if you make a thing and someone makes an imitation of that thing you're allowed to get it taken down, no matter what the motivations of the imitation were.

    • @Momofan69
      @Momofan69 6 месяцев назад +1

      They didn't mention the law, you comment in bad faith.@@SnoFitzroy
      Anyway, for the original comment, fan art is protected by fair use so that'll be fine.

    • @italianbaptist
      @italianbaptist 6 месяцев назад +4

      Fan art’s pretty easy to defend under fair use. I doubt they’ll go after that. The issue with fan games is that it is more likely to “cut into their market”. I personally disagree, since true fans will support the official stuff, but it’s harder to defend based on the fair use test.

    • @zenfirebird5360
      @zenfirebird5360 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@italianbaptist I think the cut in their profit is the maintenance of online servers. Those stuff aren't cheap to maintain.

    • @shadowsonicsilver6
      @shadowsonicsilver6 5 месяцев назад

      @@italianbaptistfan games are by definition fan art

  • @jussjaiko
    @jussjaiko 5 месяцев назад +1

    Pokémon essentials was its own website despite relic castle being huge back then too, when essentials was shut down I was so sad because I was trying to learn how to make a fan game but I need the updated files deleted what I knew I needed to delete before I updated my game and then found out the essentials website was gone💀 it makes it way less tragic now that I know relic castle was around for so long

  • @Foxtrot12345
    @Foxtrot12345 5 месяцев назад +1

    The irony of this is the fact that people are selling fangames on Ebay for more than $30 a piece. Those are the people Nintendo and Pokemon should be targeting, but instead, they're going after people who are trying to keep the legacy alive.

  • @arthurfleck4320
    @arthurfleck4320 6 месяцев назад +13

    Criminals using Pokémon cards to launder stolen and illegally earned money? Acceptable.
    Pokémon fans creating passion projects to express their love for the franchise? Unacceptable!

    • @charnalk5572
      @charnalk5572 6 месяцев назад +2

      That's the police's job tho?

  • @Leopez02
    @Leopez02 6 месяцев назад +3

    I've been a huge Fan Made Pokémon games fan for a long time, I have easily a 10 Fan Made Pokémon games on my pc. My favourite Fan Made Pokémon games are Pokémon Unbound, Xenoverse and Phoenix Rising. It would be sad if Fan Made Pokémon games will End in the Relic Castle where I've downloaded many Fan Made Pokémon games. In my opinion sometimes Fan Made Pokémon games are better than even the Real Gamefreak's Pokémon games today. I really hope Fan Made Pokémon games will never ends. RIP Fan Made Pokémon games. This made me sad. 😢❤

  • @sparks3642
    @sparks3642 6 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe, it has something to do with Palworld... People kept sending message to GF regarding the use of asset from pokemon. So, maybe they decide that if they take down palworld for the use of asset, they have to do it with everything that use pokemon asset no matter if they make money or not just so it would be kinda fair... I guess... I'm not a professional, so this is mainly a theory of sort...

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад +3

      They couldn't take down Palworld because it's legally distinct enough and would be hard to prove they used any assets. Palworld is down by 95% on its player count so TPC has nothing to worry about. This is probably just some legal work that finally went through approval.

  • @rockowlgamer631
    @rockowlgamer631 6 месяцев назад +9

    Copyright is really stupid, while understandable since it's in their own right. However, by doing so they alienate the pokemon fan community and just rub salt in the wound for us that want to keep playing pokemon and enjoy stories that TPCI would NEVER make. More mature stories like Pokemon Reborn.

  • @mickomoo
    @mickomoo 6 месяцев назад +3

    Holy shit. This is like the second biggest community for fan games. I hope they don’t take down the other one I’m thinking about…

    • @MunchingOrange
      @MunchingOrange  6 месяцев назад +2

      I was honestly scared of mentioning that community in this video out of fear of jinxing it... 😅

  • @Salem_Rabbit
    @Salem_Rabbit 6 месяцев назад +3

    Relic Castle can host his website in Pakistan - Pokemon is not trademark here

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад +1

      Russia too, they practically encourage breaking copyright laws of foreign companies there and Nintendo pulled out of that market. Some people might find it unsavory but it'd be a safe move.

  • @PhilipLL
    @PhilipLL 6 месяцев назад +2

    Also from my experience, given that pokémon essentials as you said is a modified version of a purchasable rpg-maker version. The creators of rpg-maker has the legal president to go after them too, so they'd likely have two enteties with the legal right to pursue them. Which is why you should distribute such content as a patch file if possible. As distributing a modification of another piece of software is fully legal, but distributing a modified version of said software is in a sense distributing the product of a separate entity. Unless the licence of the software allows it.

    • @Stephen_Adegun
      @Stephen_Adegun 6 месяцев назад +1

      Pokemon Essentials is a RPG Maker XP project, not a modified version of XP. You have to get XP totally legitimately, do nothing with it, and then just open Essentials project file.

  • @exiel2740
    @exiel2740 6 месяцев назад +6

    This kinda sounds like someone trolling with false takedown flags...

  • @lucifer9939
    @lucifer9939 6 месяцев назад +8

    idk man pokemon is just banning stuff left and right now. they are in a role rn cause all these incidents like the emulators + website and stuff started like a few weeks ago hahaha.

  • @608sweater
    @608sweater 6 месяцев назад +2

    0:40 me who found you mainly from your Yokai watch playthroughs:

  • @tails_the_god
    @tails_the_god 6 месяцев назад +3

    Nah NintenDONT and gameFREAKY wont stop me from making my fan game the adventures of tails ketchum!

  • @MrDoesVoices
    @MrDoesVoices 6 месяцев назад +3

    The future of entertainment as a whole is endangered

  • @TheGooseIsLoose9000
    @TheGooseIsLoose9000 6 месяцев назад +2

    Bro if Pokémon is going to be releasing garbage, empty, BotW rip-off, RPG-lite games like Scarlet/Violet, they better allow me to play fan games. Or Pokémon is dead to me.

  • @Houlgravely
    @Houlgravely 6 месяцев назад +2

    Lol how is it the end. They basically took down Pokemon Prism years ago and fangames still happened.

  • @cali-pranks
    @cali-pranks 6 месяцев назад +4

    MunchingOrange moving to video game journalism! Let’s gooo

  • @i-Sparki
    @i-Sparki 6 месяцев назад +7

    They can certainly keep trying and trying but as the Internet is, it's a nigh impossible fight for Nintendo, Game Freak, and TPCi to actually win. Every time they press harder, more and more people create fan content (or reupload the just then DMCA'd content many times over) simply to spite them. Also can't really lawyer up against a faceless horde, likely why they've now gone after a forum- certainly crossing a boundary they haven't before though.

  • @rosethecat2930
    @rosethecat2930 6 месяцев назад +2

    they've been taking down pokemon fan games since 2017

  • @THE.OLD.CALLER.BRONZONG
    @THE.OLD.CALLER.BRONZONG 6 месяцев назад +3

    This is bad for me I was making LEGENDS GALAR now I'm scared on what to do

    • @Raj-vy2yn
      @Raj-vy2yn 6 месяцев назад +1

      Well assuming your specific game doesn't blow up similarly to Uranium you'd likely be fine, hosting it in several other sites, and I expect Relic Castle may end up hosting games on their Discord Channel instead, and it may eventually come back.
      That's assuming this isn't a sign things won't be getting worse though, as it could be a sign that things are going to start being penalized far more.
      Still game creation is a long process, so overall I'd say if your still enjoying working on the project, that this doesn't really need to change much.

    • @THE.OLD.CALLER.BRONZONG
      @THE.OLD.CALLER.BRONZONG 6 месяцев назад

      @Raj-vy2yn those are wise words thank you

  • @sh4d0wfl4re
    @sh4d0wfl4re 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nintendo seems to be trying to eliminate all fangames… are we sure they want to have fans at all?

    • @Phoenix_Blader_93
      @Phoenix_Blader_93 6 месяцев назад +1

      This isnt Nintendos fault. Its purely TPC

    • @sh4d0wfl4re
      @sh4d0wfl4re 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@Phoenix_Blader_93 If Nintendo didn't want this to happen, they could have stopped it at any time. Even if this was an accident... Nintendo liked the outcome well enough to keep it as is.

  • @ashwingfantasy030
    @ashwingfantasy030 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nintendo is losing more and more people for being petty 😢😅

  • @adamori8207
    @adamori8207 6 месяцев назад +1

    We need to support and protect all the fangames, as well as those that issue their games through their own personal sites. Joined the Discord and support one fangame creator through Patreon (won't say which to protect that fangame).
    This is such a shame, it hurts creators huge and small and just overall damages fans' love of the franchise itself. I got back into Pokemon because of playing Insurgence. A fangame was why I bought a 3ds, a Switch, and all the games gen 4 and up. It's literally in their best interests to keep fangames alive - they get old fans back into the games, and help new fans introduce themselves to Pokemon by playing a game for free and seeing if they like it, before they pay money for one.

  • @Greenyoshi72
    @Greenyoshi72 6 месяцев назад +1

    I never really thought about how much Mo does fan games, especially considering I haven’t been back in a while, but at the same time I feel like the Ash Gray/flora Sky/Naranja/Sacred Gold Era was a huge part of this channel during the BW/XY days.

  • @drinkyourtea
    @drinkyourtea 6 месяцев назад +3

    Well they potentially just killed their company with this TBH without the fans they're nothing essentially it was the fans that made it so they were such an institution for so damned long.

  • @NeosparkJ80
    @NeosparkJ80 6 месяцев назад +2

    God dammit. Nintendo needs to grow some balls and be third party and make Better games without bugs and glitch instead of making counsels and copyright striking people to make money. They need to change!

  • @groudonor12
    @groudonor12 6 месяцев назад +3

    They're literally hiring goons to do their dirty work for them..

  • @megaman37456
    @megaman37456 6 месяцев назад +3

    Give it a month, maybe two, a new site will appear.

  • @yamihoonSouRu
    @yamihoonSouRu 6 месяцев назад +1

    I need to vent about Relic Castle incident:
    Folks, for real, STOP TO MAKE POKEMON FANGAMES!!! LET'S MAKE ORIGINAL TAMING GAMES!!!
    Nintendo don't deserve their fans!!!
    And Nintendo must fell the same taste when they tried to screw Sony.

  • @shatteredyoshi
    @shatteredyoshi 6 месяцев назад +1

    I feel like something like this happened last time right before a new game was announced

  • @YotesMark
    @YotesMark 6 месяцев назад +1

    Shoutout to all the gamedevs that got their start by checking out games like Pokemon Uranium and getting inspired.

  • @arbiter1272
    @arbiter1272 6 месяцев назад +2

    Fan games and showdown are the only things that keep me interested in pokemon.

  • @deadeye5735
    @deadeye5735 6 месяцев назад +2

    Fan games are genuinely fun the Pokemon company and game freak for some reason cannot make a great game anymore so I’m playing emerald kaizo and that is a fun game 💯

  • @03bgood
    @03bgood 6 месяцев назад +6

    Yay more garbage games after Scarlet and Violent! Seriously, Pokémon is in worse state than Sonic was, almost 20 years ago!

  • @calebcardinal3867
    @calebcardinal3867 6 месяцев назад +1

    As a long time Pokémon fan I didn’t know reliccastle existed I thought everyone got them off pokecommunity

  • @MasterCeReaL
    @MasterCeReaL 6 месяцев назад +1

    My introduction to MunchingOrange was the Naraja vers Playthrough from WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY back

  • @gustavochavarria8161
    @gustavochavarria8161 5 месяцев назад +1

    How was Pokemon Infinite Fusion still going strong despite the fact that this could lead to an eventual end?

  • @marcopikachujibanyan
    @marcopikachujibanyan 6 месяцев назад +1

    I’m surprised they haven’t found out about it sooner💀

  • @kacklina
    @kacklina 6 месяцев назад +2

    Is just about killing competition, even that which does not generate its own income.

  • @sherifgamleldin1277
    @sherifgamleldin1277 6 месяцев назад +13

    They are probably jealous of the pokemon fangames

  • @arielblanco9533
    @arielblanco9533 6 месяцев назад +1

    we need to bring back relic city the popular fan made pokemons wepsite now!

  • @PFGFrankly
    @PFGFrankly 6 месяцев назад +2

    im thinking that, maybe its time for all the fan game creators to make their owned ip, a fan ip

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад

      Probably the way to go. Changing up graphics and a community effort to make a similar but legally distinct "IP" in the public domain would be good to solve the problem.

  • @Vantoxify
    @Vantoxify 6 месяцев назад +1

    this is scary honestly, one of my fav pokemon fan projects is in development right now and I really hope TPCi wont go after it

  • @Greninja08
    @Greninja08 6 месяцев назад +2

    I found ur channel through urs and purplerodris battle in sm
    Came here from his channel

  • @rx-0unicorngundam296
    @rx-0unicorngundam296 6 месяцев назад +1

    the funny thing is breaching someones IP doesn't require one to make profit TPC can issue DMCA on any and everything

  • @TenkoBerry
    @TenkoBerry 6 месяцев назад +2

    This is Great but Sad to Hear but as I Say there’s always Gonna be a Way Around this Stuff and if one website goes down another million pops up 👌

  • @TOXICGAMING-2003
    @TOXICGAMING-2003 6 месяцев назад +2

    Who the f knows a single Pokemon developer,but probably everyone knows drayano

  • @gligarguy4010
    @gligarguy4010 6 месяцев назад +2

    Hopefully this is the end of the road.
    But the battle rages on, just like my psoriasis.

  • @Ultimate23Dragon
    @Ultimate23Dragon 6 месяцев назад +1

    Something doesn't make sense here. Why would a "third party" be needed to take that site down when Nintendo is infamous for that anyway?

  • @aafrophonee
    @aafrophonee 6 месяцев назад +1

    You thought I was feelin you?
    That Orange is a Munch

  • @samachu09
    @samachu09 6 месяцев назад +2

    I think that GF can't handle fan games doing a better job than them and that retro style games aren't dead.

  • @simonverse9466
    @simonverse9466 5 месяцев назад +2

    Omg please protect Pokemon Xenoverse it’s my fav thing in existence just change the titles get rid of some designs and then it will be safe

  • @alessandroarroyo1731
    @alessandroarroyo1731 6 месяцев назад +3

    NO! RELIC CASTLE NO!

  • @AMidgetWalrus
    @AMidgetWalrus 6 месяцев назад +2

    TPC really got beat by Palworld and decided to take out their frustrations by beating the fanbase

    • @alpacalover0
      @alpacalover0 5 месяцев назад

      Palworld is down 95% from its peak. More people are playing Scarlet and Violet than Palworld rn.

  • @27thlegend70
    @27thlegend70 6 месяцев назад +5

    Weird timing. I just started pokemon rejuvenation yesterday

    • @sreenaths6829
      @sreenaths6829 6 месяцев назад

      Please tell me the rebornevo website is still safe!

    • @Principalesm
      @Principalesm 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@sreenaths6829Yes

    • @LeoWolfish
      @LeoWolfish 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@sreenaths6829 It seems to be at the moment.

    • @sreenaths6829
      @sreenaths6829 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@LeoWolfish let's hope it stays so. I would lose my shit if they went after rejuv and deso!

  • @carlosmiravete1159
    @carlosmiravete1159 6 месяцев назад +1

    So Pokémon sage and spectrum are not gonna get finished?!?! What an outrage, I did enjoy Pokémon solar light lunar dark and uranium and the savagely inappropriate Pokémon clover

    • @MunchingOrange
      @MunchingOrange  6 месяцев назад +1

      Not exactly. The website was taken down but it wasn't because of any specific fan game. I'm sure developers will find other platforms to host them on

    • @carlosmiravete1159
      @carlosmiravete1159 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@MunchingOrange I really enjoyed spectrum and sage even tho it was the first beta, I seriously hope that both games are 100 percent finished, liked how those games were based on South America and Australia

  • @greenchilistudioz4537
    @greenchilistudioz4537 6 месяцев назад +1

    Reason they took down the old video now, was likely cause you were small content creator atm and it took them while for them to find you and notice videos that were made without permission.
    Makes sense, as fair use in japan, doesn't exist, neither labor unions, hinse why you transformative content got no mercy by the pokemon company.

  • @monakasan7486
    @monakasan7486 6 месяцев назад +1

    but I do wonder though, now that Relic Castle is gone, where do we find fan games at one place, including newer ones that not many people know about? I know we can google some games that we know of but most links lead to weird ads

    • @garreonlefay6703
      @garreonlefay6703 6 месяцев назад

      Relic Castle Discord is still Up, so most likely people will post it there

  • @ternel
    @ternel 6 месяцев назад +7

    Nintendo makes great games, but they are just as evil as the likes of EA and Epic Games. People just give them a pass because of their products.

    • @MegaPokefan97
      @MegaPokefan97 6 месяцев назад

      They're nowhere near EA or Epic Games in terms of how evil they are. Nintendo doesn't:
      1) prioritize lootboxes and live service games
      2) Drive their employees to jumping off a building (Blizzard]
      3) Steal from customers (Ubisoft]
      4) Sensor Japanese products while letting Western game devs to get away with worse shit (Sony)
      5) Hire Sweet Baby Inc or other ESG brands to handle their shit