It’s not news, at this point, that Nintendo doesn’t like at all that other people touch their work without their permission. There have been a lot of complaints (some of them make sense and others are just nonsense) over the years, but maybe none affects the Internet as much as this one: ‘Garry’s Mod’ will be forced to remove all its mods from the Internet immediately, thus losing twenty years of online life.
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If you don’t know ‘Garry’s mod’, and to summarize, it is a sandbox game that was born out of a love and passion for modding. The game itself, as it is initially, has no objectives and simply allows the player to freely play with everything around them. And of course, when you give people complete freedom to create their own mods, things happen.
In previous years, developers were forced (out of mere decency) to delete violent content, sexual violence, or content for adults that was not marked as such, as well as iconography and Nazi greetings, which some modders slipped in everywhere. But what is happening now is something very different: Nintendo has demanded that none of its characters roam freely in ‘Garry’s mod’.
And Facepunch Studios, its creators, haven’t resisted, knowing perfectly well the power of Nintendo when it comes to going to court. That’s why they have asked their fans on Steam to help them “deleting your uploads related to Nintendo and never uploading them again”. Some of these mods are two decades old, but they have taken it with sportsmanship.
“Honestly, it’s fair. It’s Nintendo‘s content and what they allow and don’t allow depends on them. They don’t want you to play with those things in ‘Garry’s mod’, it’s their decision, we have to respect it“. Now we’ll see if the players are as understanding as their creators, because something tells me they’re going to fight tooth and nail looking for any possible loophole.
