Devs behind Pokemon Uranium fan game remove download links after takedown notices

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Kagerow said:
I think reason why this got ended up taken down is because it actually got into media.

http://www.cnet.com/news/fan-made-pokemon-uranium-launches-after-9-years-of-development/

Generally, Nintendo's pattern on taking down fan games have been 'If it gets media attention, kill it.'

I was hoping that Pokemon Uranium would slip pass under Media attention...

I find it weird that only recently have fan made games started to get attention. Nothing like this was happening in 2005-2011.

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Kagerow said:
I think reason why this got ended up taken down is because it actually got into media.

http://www.cnet.com/news/fan-made-pokemon-uranium-launches-after-9-years-of-development/

Generally, Nintendo's pattern on taking down fan games have been 'If it gets media attention, kill it.'

I was hoping that Pokemon Uranium would slip pass under Media attention...

I find it weird that only recently have fan made games started to get attention. Nothing like this was happening in 2005-2011.

We didn't had many online published news sites as we do now. In order to compete (Yay, capitalistic journalism.) They are usually ordered to publish news or blogs at nearly nonsensical speed.

Ergo, if it is a slow news days (Which this August seems to be), they seems to be publishing anything.

Uranium wise, it could have caused marketing confusion (Fakemons, sensitive ingame topics), and it supports online mode. Nintendo and Game Freaks likely hates putting Pokemon through sensitive topics thanks to apparently infamous media nightmare shitstorm they once had related to parents who sued Nintendo over 18+ Pokemon Doujin. (Fan materials)

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Kagerow said:

AZWification said:

I find it weird that only recently have fan made games started to get attention. Nothing like this was happening in 2005-2011.

We didn't had many online published news sites as we do now. In order to compete (Yay, capitalistic journalism.) They are usually ordered to publish news or blogs at nearly nonsensical speed.

Ergo, if it is a slow news days (Which this August seems to be), they seems to be publishing anything.

Uranium wise, it could have caused marketing confusion (Fakemons, sensitive ingame topics), and it supports online mode. Nintendo and Game Freaks likely hates putting Pokemon through sensitive topics thanks to apparently infamous media nightmare shitstorm they once had related to parents who sued Nintendo over 18+ Pokemon Doujin. (Fan materials)

What you're saying makes sense to me. For me it's a good thing these games are getting attention, I wouldn't have known about this and the Metroid 2 remake if it wasn't for Nintendolife publishing articles about them.

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