Pokémon - 8-Year Fan Project Pokemon Prism Gets Shut Down by Nintendo

Goddamnit, I wanted to play this one! When will ROM hackers learn? KEEP A LOW PROFILE. Don't make trailers, don't announce release dates months in advance, just generally don't act like you're an aboveboard dev company, because like it or not, the folks in charge say you ain't.

Yes, people support you and want to play your game. Yes, some people think these companies can be overzealous in protecting their properties. But the situation is what it is, you're on the wrong side of the trademark and name that you've decided to use, you KNOW how Nintendo feels about what you do, why the fuck would you tempt fate like that?

Same thing happened with Uranium and AM2R. Featured on actual gaming news sites, nominated for the Game Awards that Nintendo had a hand in – the fuck did they think was gonna happen? The more visible you are, the less companies can pretend they don't see you, and then even a less protective company than Nintendo would have to do something.

And how is it that in 10+ years of hacking, people haven't learned to put up even the slightest of pretense? Just call it SomethingelseMon Prism or some shit like that, nobody cares how dumbfuck the name is. You get plausible deniability, Nintendo gets plausible deniability, suddenly your odds of survival are that much higher.

I said before in the "Unpopular Opinions" thread that stuff like Axiom Verge and Freedom Planet strike me as better examples of "fan games" than things like AM2R or Pokemon Uranium. Because with those aforementioned games, while making their inspirations obvious, the devs still created something they could call 100% their own and even sell it for profit. I mean hell Nintendo was happy to promote Axiom Verge on their YouTube channel.