Pokemon company shutting down Pixelmon

>>33022269
>Pokemon company shutting down Pixelmon
what the fuck

why now, of all times

>>33022285
It's like they want people to dislike Pokemon

>>33022269
Where it says it was TPC?
Also I think if they stayed with more cubic, basic models that would not happen.

>>33022269
nintendo and game freak continue to be out of touch with the rest of the world, go fucking figure
no wonder pokemon games have become shit

>>33022269
nintendo do this shit all the time, I remember when they sued someone for having a pokemon themed party
i

USM and pokken dx backlash

No misty and brock in New anniversary movie backlash

Now this.

Last 30 days begin garbage for Pokemon

>>33022307
it is you who are out of touch with the world, pokeMMO is next, and I look forward to your salt

>>33022321

The people having the Pokemon party were charging for the tickets

>>33022322
>USM and pokken dx backlash
People hating something new, uh, surprising? (if you're talking about /vp/ even MORE surprising)
>No misty and brock in New anniversary movie backlash
GTFO nostalgiafag.

>>33022322
Pokemon has been mostly garbage for years.

>>33022306
>...after a request from the Pokémon company we will be shutting our doors.


Tbh the vast majority of pixelmon servers were shit.

>>33022337
You do realize 80% of Pokemon who buy Pokemon games are nostalgia fags?

>>33022334
oh no

>>33022269
FUCKING FINALLY.
Minecraft is fucking stupid and it does not need to infect something good like Pokémon with its mindless cancer. Fight me you underage niggers.

Pokken dx is gonna flop so bad even with all that promotion. I'm gonna laugh so hard

>>33022361
L mine craft way more than Pokemon for kids . It was actually helping its brand

>>33022359

You realize profiting from someone else's franchise is illegal and the owner has a right to protect their product right?

Retarded namefag.

>a minecraft mod

Anyone that cares is underage or autistic. So nothing of value was lost.

>>33022370
Yet there is so many fake Pokemon apps they don't give a fuckkk about

>>33022370
>expecting /vp/ to know shit about copyright law
this is the same board that defends pokemmo because you get the roms outside of the site

>>33022385

How do you know they don't? Most of those fake apps are from China were copyright laws don't exist.

>>33022385
they cannot touch china in regards to copyright, which is fucking sad, it's why so many bootlegs and plug and plays get shat out without consequence

>>33022361
>u-uh yeah! minecraft is autist and it sucks! it for underage faggot niggers who are also plebeian! a-amirite 4chan???

Pokemon doesn't fuck about there fanbase.just money

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>>33022399
so much buttmad in one post

>>33022367
Bullshit. Pokemon Go (which I also fucking hate just as much) helped the brand become popular. Plus there are many Pokémon fan games out there that are 100 times better than this stupid shit. Which is kind of ironic considering many of them get taken down by Nintendo CONSTANTLY. Still, Pixelmon deserved it. Fuck Minecraft. Really.

>>33022269
Was Pixemon open? I guess some other person can just pick up development, barring assets.

You don't have to like mine craft to understand this.

The company that makes Pokemon that makes billions of Dollars a year. Had 2100% increase in net profit last year

Is penny digging to save every last dollar.

There cheap individuals

They get more money and they get more cheap. No wonder the games and anime, movies have gone to shit

>>33022342
>Pokemon who buy Pokemon games

what did he mean by this

>>33022399

Found a butthurt minecraft kiddie

>>33022411
where was I mad? The only thing I said is that you should stop using buzzwords to make you look cool.

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>>33022453
Were on a Pokemon message board and you're calling other people kiddies

>>33022370
>>33022403

explain pokemon prism

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>>33022460
>I'M NOT MAD
>>33022464
pokemon is a game for grown men and sexual deviants

>>33022321
It wasn't a Pokemon party, it was a bar having a Pokemon night.

>>33022473
haha see, can't even fucking answer. get the fuck out of this board and don't come again, I don't even know why you went to this board in the first place.

>>33022381
>Anyone that cares is underage or autistic
So just like Pokemon then?

Pixelmon was way better than sun and moon. Way more effort put into it.

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>>33022490
keep crying, my child
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzVFYDl6r-w

>>33022524
Did not answer [2]. Reddit is up, you can now fuck off. https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/

>people defending nintendo shitting all over fan creations again
good to see this board is getting even shittier

Type in pixelmon on twitter. TPC fucked up

>>33022546
People will suck anything Pokemon up. Even though they make billions a year with minimal effort just pandering to nostalgia

Good but they should've taken pokemon revolution online first. They're literally stealing their money with microtransactions and using copyrighted characters for it

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>>33022546
Hi Alvin Earthworm

>>33022564
Damn it there stealing money from billionaires how dare they

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>>33022269
Pokemon Showdown is next, mark my words.

>>33022546

>copyright infringement and profiting from shit that doesn't belong to you is ok if the owners are rich

>>33022554
>minimal effort
What makes you think that? Were having a core pokemon game on the Switch.

>>33022582
I've been waiting since XY, it's time for the neoderp apocalypse

>>33022588
You realize it's free? No one making money off it

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>>33022269
Wow. People in this board have no idea how copyright works. Another reason to believe this place is underage

>>33022596
And? It's the gonna be same shit HD. A core Pokemon on switch doesn't mean there not take away features like every new gen and no post like always

>>33022575
fucking moron.

>>33022359
FUCK OFF CUNT

>>33022361
>minecraft
>stupid

Are Pokemon fans the only fandom that complains that there are mods and fan games?

Sorry people want to play Pokemon But don't wanna play a Shitfreak

>>33022269
Are you stupid?

Nintendo and TPC have all rights to shut down illegal companys, using their patents and especially their pokémon.

If someone is using their pokémon, they have all rights to sue them. It´s their product, their rights, so they have the right to.

Pixelmon should be happy, that they just get shut down and not have to pay anything.

>>33022361
>Pokemon
>good
Are you a child or something?

You faggots realize part of owning a copyright is defending the product, right? If you let people do whatever they want with the IP and show no effort to have stopped it you can lose your copyright.

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>>33022644
Are you a contrarian?

>>33022644
Of course he is. He stopped answering when I said that Reddit was up. Look at all of the buzzwords and shitty reaction images he found on Google 10 seconds earlier.

>>33022637
Only Pokemon fans will say this shit lol

Any other fanbase would be happy with fangames and mods it's not anti consumer

No wonder Pokemon has gone to shit

>/vp/ unironically defending minecraft pokemon
I miss leak season

>>33022647
The pixelmon was made in 2012. They could have done this 5 years ago before game even became popular.

But they decided now. Because there cheap bastards

>>33022662
That's what they get for not knowing to shut the fuck up about their shitty fan project.

>>33022650
>>33022652
oh nevermind, there he is, asking if /vp/ is a contrarian board with a shit reaction image. :^)

>>33022660
Leak season is literally what brought the children you're complaining about here in the first place.

>>33022666
Well let's see what happens. Shutting it down did way more bad than good

>>33022676
>Shutting it down did way more bad than good
Nobody gives a fuck about this dumb Minecraft mod.

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>>33022686
<nobody gives a fuckkk about pixelmon

>>33022699
>9minecraft.net
I think anon meant "nobody old enough to be allowed to post on 4chan".

>>33022706
I don't understand this meme.

Pokemon is a a kids game and kids anime and people are calling mine craft kiddies sounds crazy

Likev

I don't understand. Thought you could host your own server for mine craft. What's stopping y'all from playing?

>>33022714
You'll understand when you get older, kid.

>>33022311
Its been out for years...

>>33022719
No future updates, so no gen. 8 etc. I don't really care because first I don't give a fuck about Minecraft anymore, but even if I cared about this mod, I would just play the last version.

>>33022269
aren't the devs literally just incompetent fucks that refused to release the source code because of reasons?

They probably just wanted to take the money from donators and run, when was the last significant update to the mod anyway? Plus all of the devs just seem to be "okay whatevs lol" on the forum

>>33022725
>still in develoment
>out for years
Sounds like shit

The amount of corporate cocksucking in this thread is incredible. If Game Freak added paid DLC and microtransactions to Pokemon, half of you would eat it right up. Fucking disgusting.

>>33022838
This.

People will always defend there childhood but not understanding how anti consumer it really is.

No other fanbase would defend this shit. Pokemon got these man children hypnotized and I don't even like mine craft or play it but it's so damn clear after this

>>33022838
>He doesn't understand that copyright holders have to protect their intellectual property of they will lose the rights to it
t. Chinaman

what happened to vp's pixelmon server?
also, F. it was fun while it lasted. we all knew it was only a matter of time

>>33022269
desu I'm surprised it took this long.

Though usually when they do this shit, it means something related may be happening soon. Wonder if they plan to release a Pokemon texture pack for the Switch version.

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You guys didn't think this would end well, did you? It wasn't a matter of "if", it was a matter of "when". Nintendo has ALWAYS been stingy about fan-created content.

Really, the only way they could possibly get the message that "fan-created content is trying to tell you that the games you're making are not satisfying your audience, and therefore you need to start listening to fan input and make better games" is if Nintendo pulled this shit again, but the fans refused to take their content down, and Nintendo went out of their way to sue.

It would look terrible for Nintendo: "Nintendo sues fans into oblivion for making fan games". And yeah, it'd be great for Nintendo to finally see how the rest of the world sees it, but seeing somebody's life and work get destroyed in order to make that happen just doesn't feel worth it. My advice: if you're sick of Nintendo's skullduggery, stop buying their products, and encourage others to do the same.

>>33022699
>9minecraft.net
I'm not that other retard who doesn't realize Pixelmon is incredibly popular, but that's a known fake site designed to just get ad revenue or install viruses, view count is probably faked.

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>>33022739
Last significant update was June/July of this year, where they added more Gen 4 pokes, berry trees, "battle rules" (basically an options menu for how battles work), and a ton of bugfixes.

>>33022836
Except that's exactly the same kind of situation Minecraft itself is in, as well as tons of other games and game mods. It's been out for years, but they keep adding new stuff to it.

>>33022860
The point is that they should go after the fucking Chinese bootlegs on the fucking app store instead of fan projects like this.

>>33022870
...I swear to god if they're killing off Pixelmon, which actually replaces the mobs with actual Pokemon, so they can have a texture pack where the cows LOOK like Miltank and the sheep LOOK like Mareep, I'm breaking something.

>>33022874
>It would look terrible for Nintendo
No, 99% of people would go, "Yeah, that's what happens when you're retarded" only a handful of autists would care. I'm glad to see there are tons of underage defending these rent-seeking faggots though.

>>33022860
>he doesn't understand that companies can continue their previous policy of ignoring fan projects that will never impact their sales to the benefit of everyone

>>33022893
Did you see what happen gta took away mods. The backlash?

Nintendo has gotten plenty of backlash for taking down fan games and mods

>>33022885
>Except that's exactly the same kind of situation Minecraft itself is in
And it's fucking shit that only 12 year olds care about anymore. Is this supposed to be a good argument?

>The point is that they should go after the fucking Chinese bootlegs on the fucking app store instead of fan projects like this
At least the Chinese put some effort into it.

>>33022902
Pokemon made billions last and had a increase of 2100% net profit. Pixelmon existed during that time

>>33022893
>only a handful of autists would care
>most of the gaming community gets up in arms whenever a fan project gets taken down
How much do you get paid by Nintendo to spout lies?

>>33022906
>Did you see what happen gta took away mods. The backlash?
No?

>>33022921
http://store.steampowered.com/app/271590/Grand_Theft_Auto_V/

>>33022902
They literally fucking can't. If copyright holders do not defend their IPs they will lose them.

>>33022921
https://www.google.ca/amp/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/40404622

>>33022921
Are you blind? I don't even play the game, or follow anyone that does, and even I saw the fire.
I bet next you're going to say that Bethesda shutting down mods wouldn't affect Elder Scrolls or Fallout either.

>>33022927
Am I supposed to be gathering something from this?

>>33022929
I will ask that, if this is the case, why do they only target some fan content, and not all?
For example, why did Uranium get taken down but not Insurgence? why did Prism get taken down but not Glazed? why did Pixelmon get taken down and not that roblox thing?

>>33022921
(You)

>>33022929
But there too pussy to get after the one that actually making money of them in China. So they went after a 5 year old fangame? During those 5 years they still made billions

It's cool to be protecting you're but when your picky about who to shutdown it's really shitty

>>33022935
Since you're probably underaged and can't get in, I'll explain what's happening. On Steam, it shows "overall" ratings, and "recent" ratings. Overall is mixed, but recent is mostly negative. If you then scroll down to the reviews, pretty much every recent negative review is referencing the anti-mod stance.

>>33022932
>I bet next you're going to say that Bethesda shutting down mods wouldn't affect Elder Scrolls or Fallout either.
Yeah, people would forced to realize Bethesda makes shitty games. I see absolutely no downside.

>>33022938
Because TPC is pussy. Those games don't shit to make. The games in china using Pokemon and micro transactions they don't touch

>>33022935
Yeah, look at the "comments" and the ratings.

>>33022902
For corporations, fan content is a Morton's Fork.

On one hand, you have tons of passionate, dedicated fans who just want their love and support for a particular franchise to not be punished by corporate overlords. On the other hand, you have genuine shitbags who are ready and willing to destroy intellectual property so they can profit over somebody else's otherwise protected work, and will do so any way they know how.

Copyright, trademarks, intellectual property, etc. are not permanent things. Once you pony up the money to have such things, you HAVE to defend them.

Let's say Nintendo finally pays attention to one of those Pokemon-ripoff games on iOS, and this shit goes to court. The other side could look at projects like, say, Pixelmon, or many of the other fan games, and say "Yeah well these people were using your IP and you didn't do shit!"

If you want your fan project to succeed, you need to keep it on the down low. It's when these things get big, get media attention or show up on far too many YouTube channels to be ignored, is when they get struck down. If anything, Pixelmon being taken down is a sign of its success.

>>33022929
And what threat does FAN CONTENT pose to someone's IP? And like we've been saying, they haven't been defending their IP against the shit in China that ACTUALLY MAKES MONEY OFF OF IT.

>>33022954
Your reaching so hard

>>33022706
I'm wondering, do people still believe in that rule? This entire board shows that it's not the case anymore.
Also that one datamine from a time back

>>33022929
There's a lot of fan projects out there for nearly every franchise, but you don't see copyright holders magically losing their copyright over it. Infact, Sega fucking hired Sonic fangame devs and yet, somehow, Sega still owns the Sonic franchise. Funny how that works, huh?

>>33022965
Its obviously not an enforceable rule, but if someone is blatantly acting underaged, they're going to get called out on it. If they know how to at least somewhat act like an adult, they can stay for all I care.

>>33022955
>And what threat does FAN CONTENT pose to someone's IP?
I know this is very hard for you to understand so I'll say it again. If you are not showing that you actively protect your IP from people trying to use it, you can lose it. That's not an exaggeration. That's how copyright laws work.

>China
It's almost like those fuckers dont respect copyright laws in general.

>>33022965
Underage pls go

>>33022969
Shh don't try to sound logical. These guys will suck Pokemon dick any chance they get.

>>33022954
>"Yeah, well, those people were using your IP and you're not doing shit!"
And the people they're going after now can't do exactly that and point at China?

>>33022969
>but you don't see copyright holders magically losing their copyright over it
Right, because they shut that shit down. And you can barely compare anything to the amount that Pokemon recieves of all kinds of fan projects.

>lmao my dead franchise hired fan devs
Not surprising in the least.

>>33022987
(You)

>>33022269
that shit was gay anyways, good, hopefully mmo is next

>>33022993
Not an argument

>>33022269
That's what happens when you don't make your copyright infringing mod open source, you fucking jew.

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>>33022969
Yes, and I feel Sega should be applauded for that. They recognized talent in the fan community, and instead of punishing it, decided to bring it in, nurture it, and use it to better their own IP. People were gravitating to Sonic fan games for a reason, and Sega wanted in. Now the fan game could be considered something of a portfolio, a resume, for the creative getting into the industry.

Meanwhile, nobody knows why the fuck Nintendo acts the way it does about fan content. Whether it be real paranoia about copyright, or because they're dicks who want people to only buy their games and see fan games as piracy, or because they don't understand why fan content exists, or SOMETHING, we don't know because they never give us an answer.

>>33022983
They could, but where would a bunch of regular-ass not-rich people get the money to find a lawyer, let alone one who would take on such a case? Thing realistically; these Pixelmon guys are putting this mod together in their spare time. It's not a job they're making huge bank on.

Why is this board so full of contrarians? What do you gain out of shitposting like this?

>>33022987
>not realizing that most franchises don't go after fan projects and are fine
>it d-doesn't count because it's a franchise i don't like!
lmao

>>33022269
Couple of points bear mention here. First is that there is no compelling reason to go after a five year old free to play mod to "protect copyright". To give an example Target, the American big box store, hasn't gone after the Target stores in Australia that use the same name with an identical logo: because it literally doesn't affect them. They don't do business in Australia so they're not competing with those stores and nobody's fooling people into thinking they're the same. Same way that you don't generally go after people drawing fanart and writing fanfic for a franchise: it's not economic competition or fraud, so there IS NO HARM. The Minecraft modding community is a niche, and people playing this particular mod already gib shekels to the copyright holders, who make money hand over fist on it.

Second major point, where do you define a limit? If someone puts in the work to put the G36 or the G3 into Fallout can H&K pursue them for violation of copyright? If someone puts Space Marine armor in The Elder Scrolls can Games Workshop come after them? When fans are doing all the coding and making the models in a game engine that already exists, and they're not doing it commercially, the only complaint is that they "look like our IP" and to my knowledge no other company has taken such aggressive steps to curtail the modding community.

This sort of thing simply has not been done before because there has never been a reason to do it other than extreme pettiness.

>loading screen when makinng a new world says that they nintendo/tpc owns all pokemon and pokemon related content
>tells you to buy sun/moon to support them
feelsbadman

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>>33023003
>wanted to contribute to development at one point, because obviously, their bug hunting skills were garbage
>in order to be considered for a dev position, you need to PM MrMasochism on the forums
>go through the registration hoops and open the PM box
>sorry, you can't send a PM because you haven't participated in the local dick-waving contests!

>>33023019
>most franchises get fan projects
No

>most franchises don't go after fan projects
Any with a sizeable fanbase and sizeable projects does.

The answer here is super simple. Don't fucking talk about your game. Especially don't try to use your game to rent-seek. You're just asking for it.

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>>33023035
But in this thread have more sympathy for billionaires than they do fans who make games out of love for there favourite franchise

>>33023027
But you see, none of that matters, because the people in this thread think since it's a fan project made in Minecraft, it's ok for this to happen, because they don't like Minecraft.

>>33023045
Partly because some "gamers" have a hateboner for Minecraft. Which is partly because the playerbase doesn't always give a good showing of itself, and partly because this is 4chan and people can't help but hate popular things.

>>33023045
>than they do fans who make games out of love for there favourite franchise
>out of love
>donate

>>33023051
I always wonder why people like /v/ hate Pokemon fanbase but this thread full of dicking riding Pokemon fans. That will defend anything they do. Makes it painfully obvious why

>>33023051
It's the same exact kind of shit like all those kids who thought they were cool for hating on Call of Duty, without understanding any of the reasons people disliked Call of Duty. They just blindly attach themselves to a bandwagon.

>>33023061
While I would love to see the actual text of the notice, it should hardly matter. Giving an option to donate to someone making a fan project is legally very different from charging commission fees or actually selling a product.

And for the gaming community it's hardly a new concept. Twitch streaming is technically donating to watch people play a game, which is itself copyrighted. You don't see EA or Activision flipping their shit over it. But god forbid someone lets you donate for five years of work on a mod package.

>>33023080
Got what they deserved.

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>>33022632
Nintendo fans as a whole get upset about fangames. AM2R and Prism getting C&D'd is considered a good thing for them, and any sort of fangame's dismissed as being "lazy" or "uncreative".
Honestly, it's not all that different from fanart or fanmade remixes. What's wrong with making something to show that you like something? Is drawing a picture of your favorite character also lazy and uncreative?

>>33023086
Stop fishing for (You)s.

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>>33023051
Exactly

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>>33023027
>This sort of thing simply has not been done before because there has never been a reason to do it other than extreme pettiness.

Nintendo is an aggressively petty and shitty company, and always has been. Look at other fan games they've C&D'd in the past. Look at the fucking NES Classic debacle and the amiibo shortages. For a company that boasts having some of the most iconic video game characters of all time, they sure do go out of their way to punish dedicated fans.

I'm going to quote Jim Sterling here:

>There’s an old memetic joke that Nintendo hates money, and while it is just a joke, sometimes you look at the company’s behavior and wonder. This is, after all, a company that not only refuses to localize certain games, but will actively fight attempts to import said games. This is a clear case of Nintendo going out of its way to stop items being sold, items it may never have any intention of bringing to a particularly territory.

>One of the most famous examples of this was Animal Crossing. It took two fucking years for the original game to make it to Europe after it had already hit North America, and Nintendo was determined to do everything in its power to stop Europeans buying it, cracking down on importers who tried to sell the thing.

>Nintendo is a company that lets you know when your money is quite literally not good enough.

>>33023105
haha lol

>>33023097
Stop giving them to me.

But they did deserve it.

>>33023101
NoE and NoA are cancer. Seriously, probably 70% of their bad decisions could probably be traced to "Reggie told us to do it."

>>33023091
The legal status of modding, which involves people writing their own code and implementing their own models, should concern any serious PC gamer. But you're not dealing with gamers here, you're dealing with Pokemon fans.

Imagine the franchise with no fanart and you'll be seeing it from a similar perspective to an honest-to-god gamer.

>>33023051
>>33023079
>>33023098
There's irony in this series of posts.

>>33023073
say it with me:
/vp/. thinks. being. contrarion. is. hip.

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the thing i dont get it its why they closed prism, there are tons of hackroms and the creator never asked for a monetary compensation

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>>33023118
>contrarion
Is it contagious?

>>33023118
Did you mean contrarian?

>>33023126
Got too much attention. Just like Uranium. Too many fucking Go hype cash in writers trying to get some clicks making articles.

>>33023127
darn spellers

>>33023126
the thing is that nintendo love to target gaijins, see comiket for example , people selling porn of their characters and they dont give a shit

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>an actually skeevy mod made by skeevy con artists gets DMCA'd by Nintendo
>everyone is surprised

>>33023155
While I hate to make it about racism my personal experiences working in Japan can confirm that this probably plays a role in the decisionmaking process. Even if it's not a conscious driving force it's there.

>>33023177
>not paid
>five years of updates and bugfixes
Pixeldevs could be right sons of bitches sometimes, but not in a way that should have earned them legal action.

>>33023177
Well, you honestly can't expect everyone here to keep up with Minecraft drama. Just a quick rundown for you guys.
>devs made multiple (unsuccessful) Kickstarters to try and make a port for Pocket Edition, claiming that it was a 100% original IP
>actually force-crashed the game with the mod installed if you got banned from their Pay2Win servers at least until Mojang slapped their shit in for making the parents of 12 year olds pissed at them
>RAN PAY2WIN SERVERS again, until Mojang slapped their shit in

>>33023126
it got too popular
most rom hacks remain niche throughout their lifetime
there was also a very specific legal case -- they advertised using Pokemon's brand, which violates their IP. You can defend a Rom hack in court by stating that you're not modifying the source code itself -- just providing a patch that would do that, but the patch is completely your own intellectual property. I'd say that's almost certainly why TPCi hasn't gone after any rom hacks through that method

(it also didn't help they got media exposure)

>>33022606
>Pokemon Prism
>Pixelmon

>>33023192
I remember that second one. It wasn't just mojang, the entire modding community slapped their shit in hard for doing that. Perhaps it was a good thing because it killed anyone else's idea to try that.
The second one I know was also a problem even with vanilla servers, which is the real reason Mojang took action for it. I can remember the server owners crying because they couldn't con 12 year olds anymore. it was delicious.

>>33023254
It was funny, I took a look at a server hosting Reddit when that shutdown occurred, and the owners freaking out that they were blacklisted were just met with "well, what the fuck did you expect, morons?" Even people that I've regarded as shit admins were telling them they fucked up. And a lot of them were FTB servers, that was pretty telling.

Showdown shut down when? it's gotten so big that it's inevtable

>>33023271
i wonder if /vp/ will defend the shutdown that time, or if they'll get mad because it's something they like

>>33023271
It'll be interesting to see if it happens. I know that TPCi directly confirmed they knew of a previous simulator (I think it was still shoddy or something?) and they just didn't care.

>>33023271
Would that mean /vp/ and Pokemon forums would die out or increase in activity?

>>33023314
Honestly, who knows. At this point it seems like TPA can draw and redraw the line however it sees fit, because fuck the community.

>>33022269
Still waiting for showdown to be shut down

>>33022655
It´s the law dude.
If you want to sell anything you inveted you don´t want others to just copy and paste your shit and selling it to others.

If you don´t understand this, no wonders why threads like this keep appearing in this board.

>>33022655
But that´s the difference, Nintendo and TPC are no fanbase and nobody cares about your fucking opinion.

Just let others make the brainwork you can´t do and let the law be the law.

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>>33022269
Open World pokemon title confirmed for Switch

Nintendo has shut down plenty of titles before due to their similarity to their titles in development. So this might be hinting in this

>>33023598
As I said earlier, I'm actually expecting something more similar and it'll instead be a Pokemon texture pack for the Switch version.

>>33022269
TPC shutting down Showdown when?

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>another shitty fangame down the drain

Ohh, the Uranium tears are still sweet.

>>33022467
Used trademarks without permission

Nobody gives a shit, still no articles about that lol

>people thinking they'll ever shut down Showdown
Smogon is one of the things that made competitive so popular in the first place, they'd only lose big time

>>33022269
>>33022285
I knew /vp/ was actually filled with underage autists, holy shit. Does this fag make money on "pixelmon"? If so, then of course it'd get shut down.

If he's not charging money, they probably saw that some minecraft servers were making money off thish shit and went ahead and shut the whole thing down.

>>33022269
>Why is TPC so anti consumer

It's not anti consumer to take down something that is violating your copyright

>>33022614
>doesn't mean there not take away
Nigger, what?

>>33022419
Sure is Julias Cole in here. Did Notch call you a cunt, anon?

>>33024053
>violating your copyright

Strictly speaking if there using there own models and code and not making money off of it its not copyright its a licencing issue

Next is Pokemon Clover

>>33024260
is clover the one with sjw devs?

if so it needs to be shut down

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>>33022269
>Haven't been to /vp/ for 3 months
>Check this thread out
>Sees all the comments
>Remembers why I don't visit this place as usual
I think when it comes to copyrighted things it brings out the worst out of people

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And nothing of value was lost.

>>33023505
We'll let's see what happen with 20th movie and pokken dx both will flop horribly

>>33022614
Dude. They gave all the gen 1 all the alola forms and pander to them because it was anniversay or something, or it was the success of Pokemon Go.

>>33022269
But at the end of the day...
It's a fangame I never played nor interested and once the days have past by we will pretty much care less

>>33022361
pokemon hasnt been good since 2012

>>33022269
>pixelmon
You mean that cancerous shit about minecraft?
Thank God, I'm happy that they took it down.

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>>33024333
>Pokemon hasn't been good since 20xx"
>Gamefreak release a trailer for the Switch
>inserthype.jpg
>Repeat

>>33024366
Yes, the hype is better than the actual games at this point.
Everyone knows this.

>>33024305
Every Pokemon movie and spin off bombs, so nothing new

>>33022647
>of owning a copyright
not exactly.

Of owning a trademark. You can let anyone do anything they want even if you have copyright, if you just issue the adequate license. Trademark is a whole different issue - you kill or you lose.

Anyway as far as I know this only delays the inevitable. It's just a matter for someone to fork the project (if the repo is public) or just start an "inspired by" (if not) and then rebuild the assets.

>Minecraft is cancer
>TPCi is cancer

but who exactly is the worst

>>33024433
Nintendo

>>33022467
Look it up and play it it's a cool hack

>>33024305
Also just your opinion.
Sun and moon had the best numbers since years, so just stfu. That´s bullshit.

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>Defending anything Minecraft

>Playing Minecraft in 2017

>>33024593
Because of Pokemon go. Not because the games were good. The sales we're super loaded. There is reason. People were bitching when USM was announced. Even Reddit was complaining and Japanese fans

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>>33024598
>enjoying things
>any year

>>33022342
>You do realize 80% of Pokemon who buy Pokemon games are nostalgia fags?
>he actually believes this

>>33023192
Wait, those Kickstarters were from the original devs? I thought it was some random guy who just wanted to make a quick buck so they took someone's Minecraft mod and made a Kickstarter with it.

That Retsupurae video looks far more insidious now.

>>33024602
yeah because a bunch of whiny self-entitled nerds were either expecting blatantly fake leaks to be real or making assumptions on the future based on their preferences then got mad when they were wrong

personally SM were garbage but most of the people mad about USUM were hyped for fake leaks about a SM port anyways just because it would be on a $300 piece of hardware they didn't own yet

>literally a month out of getting a good computer
>Pixelmon was one of the things I wanted to use it for
>they shut it down
though it's been ages since I played it back when Minecraft wasn't too beefy for my machine, so it's more of a 'that one great aunt you saw once 15 years ago died' situation rather than losing a best friend

>>33024366
>hyped for newer games
speak for yourself

>>33022269
Maybe this means they have plans for a game like pixelmon. The likely scenario is that they shut it down just because, but I'd like to have a little hope.
Pixelmon and minecraft are both kind of shit, but it was a comfy time.

>>33024722
>yfw the Switch game is a 3d sandbox with wild Pokémon just roaming around on the overworld.

>>33024602
Who cares, they have sold better, than any other game and that´s what counts on the end of the day.

Every time people are bithing about everything especially in this board of dumb retards. That´s nothing new but the games are selling good despite all of this bitching.

>>33022660
Nobody is defending the game itself, just its right to exist.

>>33022269
They shutdown some non-profit mod of minecraft. A fucking minecraft mod. Just why?

>>33024739
This board wasn't the only one bitching about sun and moon.

Also black and white 2 never got the huge negativity than USM got when it was announced

Facebook
Twitter
Reddit
Japanese message board
Japanese twitter

All we're shitting on the announcement

>>33022342
>80% of Pokemon who buy Pokemon games
We are all pokemon now. Bless y'all

>>33024765
Did I say something different?
I said "especially in this board"...just like it is allways because of you retards.

>>33022385
I thought everyone know china bootleg are like literal cancer, very hard to destroy, and once you destroy one, more new ones will pop up.

>>33024755
>>33024750
Yeah it's weird. They decided shutdown a 5 year old mod of mine craft Pokemon. Developer who was a big fan of Pokemon fan but are too Pussy to shutdown the Chinese Pokemon apps that actually profit from them

>>33022473
As expected of a furryfag.
You are the ones who need to fuck off from pokemon.

>>33024775
>China
>shut down

lmao

>>33023091
Yes it is uncreative, not so much lazy tho.

Why not just say "I don't give a fuck"? Not like they can send the police after you or anything.

>>33024835
Because you don't want to be sued for everything you own?

>>33024840

I mean they can threaten to sue, but they're not getting shit from me if I were to simply host it on another site.

>>33024852
So you think TPCi seriously doesn't have the legal resources to track your ass down and sue you? Ignoring a C&D is how you get held liable not only for infringement, but willful infringement.

>>33024875

It wouldn't be hard to dodge TPCi, especially if they can't even shut down all the fake Pokemon apps on phone.

>>33024899
They're all based in China and therefore pretty much legally untouchable. I'm assuming you actually live in a civilized country anon, and wouldn't move to China just to rip Pokemon off.

>>33022370
>It's the law so it must be ethical!

>>33025146
Why should someone be able to take something you made, something that is your original idea and profit off it?
Everything would literally just be lazy ripoffs if there were no consequences for ripping people off and no way to protect your inventions.

>>33025186
Why are they pussy to shutdown the apps in china that actually profit from them?

They got no balls

>>33025203
Do you not understand that they can't do anything about it? They're not scared of touching Chinese bootleggers, they just have no way to enforce laws that basically don't exist in China.

>>33022411
>>33022464
>>33022524
>>33022608
>>33022650
Smug 4chan poster way more mature and awesome than any dumb kiddies playing Minecraft

>>33023177
>Shitty stalin reaction gif
>Skeevy

Loving every lol

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Kotaku

>>33023986
People use the same argument for piracy, and devs still bother to use Denuvo, so nope.

>>33025203
you can't just prosecute or penalize a chinese company directly - you have to let the chinese govt. to do it.

and that ain't happening ever.

guys it's not even about pixelmon at this point; it's the implications of shutting down pixelmon that should at least worry you.
even diehard fans who shill for the franchise WILL get C&D'd, how long until showdown gets the axe? how long until clover is put to the block?

>>33024593
>>33024739
>>33024770
sales only count to the people selling the games

>meanwhile pokemon clover is still lurking

>>33022575
Damn they're making illegal profit from copyrighted characters how dare they

>>33025603
When they get too big and/or start making a profit. When that happens they will be justifiably shut down.

Can't wait until 20th movie and pokken dx bombs

>>33022269
What is this? Like when people make sprites for Gen VI and VII?

>>33023019
Not that guy but the correct phrase is "fine FOR NOW".

Companies like Nintendo and TPCi are playing the long game. They are the ones who will remain standing should anyone challenge their rights to the IP.

While the other companies can easily fall f challenged. all it takes is the company fucking with the wrong person.

Targeting just one friend of a decent IP attorney and they could have their trademarks etc. made public.

And if you care about it, YOU don't want that any more than they do because it will open the flood gates to China-level shit being sold everywhere with official branding.

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I remember /vp/'s Pixelmon serb. It was fun for a while, but I got bored eventually, just like everything Minecraft and Pokemon. I'm not shedding any tears over this one.

>>33024224
Contains Gamefreak registered characters.

NOW, if pixelmon renames and reskins all those models, it'll skirt around that issue the same way mobile poke-clones do and Fighting Herds did.

>>33025853
They already have Chinese games with Pokemon that TPC is too pussy to shutdown u dummy.

They pick on the Pokemon fans who make fan games and mods not the big company's who actually make profit off them

Also you putting words in caps doesn't make you're opinion anymore vaild. You're just a schill

>>33024609
>joy
>existence

>>33025746
Pixelmon was smaller than Showdown, and made as much profit ($0).
If they can come for it, it's only a matter of time.

>>33024750
it doesn't even have a right to exist

>>33025885
Again, China's laws aren't the same and don't allow for them to be shutdown like the ones that have been other here.

>>33025885
>Chinese games with Pokemon
And China has the most fucked Copyright Laws so it's not worth going after them. Even if you DO succeed, they'll just rebound under a different name and change a few textures/assets.

>>33025923
So people should stop making fan art of Pokemon? It has no reason to exist

Just keep lettting game freak sell you shit games

Illegal cracked pixelmon server when?

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The end of Pokemon is near

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>>33025948
remember the hell that occurred when we went to change versions?

>>33025951
Well thats technically why it happens, because once they get a community word of mouth leads to other more popular people such as Youtubers and the general media finding it out and spending it to other which eventually means Nintendo can't ignore it and claim ignorance so legally they have to do something if they can, which they can't with Chinese knockoffs because Chinese copyright law it basically non-existent.

>>33025990
But casuals don't understand that. They just think TPC is a bunch of greedy bitches

I don't blame them hope it hurts there bottom line

>>33025990
Why can't some Chinese company make ano actually decent knockoff then, and we can all play that? Why do they always have to be utter dross?

>>33025948
Can you not run it locally? It's just a mod, right?

>>33025935
Technically, yes. Fan art, fan stories, fans doing anything in a creative capacity other than coming up with new ways to praise you, is illegal.

Thank Disney.

>>33025948
>Illegal cracked pixelmon server when?

there's one up now

>>33025888
>concepts

>>33026048
Not illegal. It's a civil violation, not a criminal one. You can't go to jail for it, and the copyright holder can decide not to take action against you.

Copyright infringement isn't "illegal" (in the sense that it's a criminal violation) until you get into willful counterfeiting territory.

>>33026135
But it's still violating your property. Not to mention the profit from some of the servers. They have a full right to do that

>>33025951
It's China. It's beyond the law

>>33026135
Not in the corporatocratic dystopia that is the USA.
http://info.legalzoom.com/consequences-violations-copyright-laws-20602.html

Up to 5 years, but 10 for repeat offenders.

>>33026175
Oh, I totally agree. I was just quibbling with the word "illegal."

>>33026177
Yeah, like I said, more serious violations can be criminal. I was responding specifically to a post about fan art, fan fiction, etc. There's no chance that falls into the category that can have criminal consequences.

>>33025971
We should just go to the old version where cracked allowed skins and stay there.

As best I can tell it's all treated the same and it's just up to the judge to be merciful.

https://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalties.html

>>33026239
>If the infringer makes a retail profit of more than $2,500 by selling 10 copies or more within a 180-day period, the infringement becomes a felony with a maximum $250,000 fine and five years in prison for a first offense, and 10 years in prison for a second offense.

>>33025627
And what is their goal?
Right, ding, ding,. ding, to sell their games.
So if everbody keeps buying more than one copy, they don´t care about itm because they earn enough money and keep going on.

>>33022342
If thats the case gen 3 would of killed the series you retarded chimp.

>>33026513
There were still returning cast.

Meanwhile gen 5, both anime and games had lowest consumption of the entire series.