When will people learn that Nintendo isn't going to allow anyone to use their IP without permission?

At this point anybody who tries to is an idiot.

haha why is this literally any surprise at all? one of their most important IPs is Pokemon, and its not really that advanced of a game- of course they're not going to let people create their own versions to supply others for free online indefinitely

Nintendo has pretty much never allowed a large fan project survive once it got wind to them, assuming it was being released to the internet or a decent number of people. that's common knowledge and something the creators certainly would have already been aware of

In other news, hentai is fap worthy.

At least its very easy to find if u know where to look

Both really. Sometimes they are the same thing.

I would be shocked to find out that the devs weren't expecting this and just went on with the project anyway. They weren't charging money for it. The game's already out there, has over 1.5M downloads and a community. People like it. It will be downloaded through other sources and i'm sure they're aware of that. What don't know what their intentions were but I'd wager the mission was accomplished. 

This is a joke, right? They obviously knew it wouldn't be allowed. Everyone with half a brain would know that you can't just take someone's IP like that.

I feel like people are missing the bit where Nintendo let this game get downloaded 1.5 million times before it got taken down. Same with AM2R. Nintendo doesn't care about good fan games existing. They care about maintaining the right to take down actual egregious infringements on their copyrights. They're only doing this to flex their muscles. The more games like this they let go by, the harder it is to protect their IP because they'll be seen as too lenient.

Neither AM2R or Uranium were secrets. If Nintendo actually wanted to, they could have taken these games down ages ago before they were even close to completion. In fact, I'm 100% sure that the only reason they even had to step in was because of the real media coverage those games have been receiving. Uranium is far from the first Pokemon fan game, but I can't remember a single one that was completed and then covered by a site like IGN immediately after. Almost none of those other ones got shut down. Do the math.

People who create fan games don't care that they have to remove download links to a game that has already been torrented. They just want people to be able to play their games. That's still going to happen in both cases. All Nintendo did was take out a figurehead. No real damage has been done to either of these games or their creators, and Nintendo knows it.

Counter-Strike, Black Mesa Source, Desert Combat, DayZ, DotA, Gary's Mod, The Stanley Parable, Team Fortress just to mention the absolutley huge ones.

The Half-Life series is probably the king of modifications, but there are tons of games that have a good mod scene.

You know those billion dollar coporations, they need that extra $5.