Why does N*ntendo send cease and desists to fangames using the pokemon IP for non-profit but not to people who make...

Why does N*ntendo send cease and desists to fangames using the pokemon IP for non-profit but not to people who make animations and drawings with the pokemon IP and make actual money on it (youtube revenue, patreon bucks etc.)?

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Why do you care

>not to people who make animations and drawings with the pokemon IP and make actual money on it (youtube revenue, patreon bucks etc.)?
These guys don't use ideas TPC might have in mind, while fan games do

>but not to people who make animations and drawings with the pokemon IP and make actual money on it
I wish it was true OP, I still miss her…

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Nintendo believes fan games will drive away sales of their own games. Their mentality is if an amazing fan game of Mario exists out there for free, why would someone buy Odyessy? If they didn't send out cease and desists, things like TemTem might just be a fan game of Pokemon and then people would just play a free Pokemon MMO and there's a risk of not even touching Sword/Shield.

That's the mentality I believe.

Nintendo/TPC goes after artists too, user. TPC hasn't actively sued anyone as far as I know, but they've definitely C&D'd quite a few artists.
They primarily go after the game devs because of a few different reasons, mainly because they don't want them using up all the good ideas, but also because just about every fangame is better than the base games and they don't want normalfags to have something GOOD to compare the games to

I still wanna know what H-manga got cancelled by them back in the turn of millenium…

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Shouldn't this set the precedent that art with the pokemon IP as long as it is not being sold? But Nintendo still nukes artists from time to time...

weren't they like that in the early 2010s or did they gun exclusively for lets players

>he doesnt know
oh boy you are in for a ride
quite the rewarding journey too

That only works if fangames actually have good ideas and newer games are shit, which should be rare.
... They started taking down fangames upon the release of Sun/Moon, right?

But Nintendo are dinosaurs and don't understand that just because Pixelmon exists doesn't mean that Legend Arceus will drop in sales. They are STILL threatened by streamers. I mean, game studio heads are already retarded about piracy and still don't understand that piracy is not a loss of sales for AAA games, piracy only affects you if your game is total shit and the word gets out. Even with small indie games, unless it's overpriced, gaming consumers are pretty aware about supporting indie devs and purchasing their games if they pirated it and enjoyed it. I'm sure most of us here have a story where they pirated something like Binding of Isaac, loved it, then bought the Switch re-release or whatever.

Someone could use the Sword/Shield assets and make their own fan game on a massive scale with amazing detail and quality of life features and I would still want to buy the next gen official Pokemon games because I want to play with the NEW mons. I might make a shit ton of comparisons to the fan game and say "The fan game is better", but GF still got my money so they wouldn't fucking care.

Despite being a $4 bil company, GameFreak still doesn't understand the power of their brand.

This.

If some guy makes a fangame game where the protagonist is a lumberjack, and the first gym leader is your older brother and uses a beaver pokemon to cut down trees, those ideas are now off limits for TPC, and ideas even similar to those get tricky.
If someone draws and makes money off of a hundred pictures of Gardevoir lewds, then it's less of an issue, because TPC probably isn't dipping into porn any time soon, so those ideas aren't inhibiting future ideas the same way.

Hell, most of the shit I pirate is stuff I either bought previously, and either want on my phone, on my PC, want to romhack, or want to otherwise mod, or else is ancient GBA, DS, SNES, and PSP era games that you can't buy new anyways, and the only person I'm robbing is the asshat trying to sell a GBA game for 80 bucks on Amazon in 2022, that wasn't great when it was new.

I think the only time I pirated something, and it influenced my purchase of something was skipping Fire Emblem Fates to play some fangames instead, but there's a solid chance I would have skipped Fates even without fangames.

That or PDFs of rulebooks for tabletop games.

why is that=

Even though free fan games are legal, most people fear getting financially drained in court.

GF blocks fangames because they could potentially make the fans have standards.

I mean if a 6 person unpaid team can add a national dex and all past quality of life features, people might start demanding the same of Gamefreak.

>Even though free fan games are legal,

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Parody protection laws

>all free fan games are parodies

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This is your last (You), don't spend it all at once.

>Even though free fan games are legal,

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