Anyone who has been playing online video games since 2006 must be familiar with Garry’s mod and Nintendo, and may even have played this game himself. This is a very popular sandbox game that allows its users to import players, modes, and characters, to generate different types of content through it. This game was created with a lot of love and to give a new identity to modding initially it had no objective and it gave freedom to the users to freely play their rounds with anything and everything in the game.
Why Garry’s Mod is removing Nintendo Content?
Where Nintendo has given the freedom to their users to generate content, its misuse is common, for many years developers were forced to delete sexual violence, content for adults, Nazi Greetings, and Iconography content that modders created, and publicized in many places. And from that perspective, They are removing all its Nintendo content. And from now on no character will move freely in Garry’s Mod.
In a community news post, Garry’s Newman creator says that they have already deleted some items and this is an ongoing process because it has 20 years of uploaded data, it will take time and this is also true as it has 1.8 million steam in Garry’s mod. It is such a task to find and delete copyrighted content from workshop add-ons.
Facepunch Studios has requested modders to delete all their Nintendo-related content, which means some content that is 20 years old will also be deleted. Newman says “This is also fair.” This is the company’s content and this is their decision as to what they want to allow and what they don’t want to allow. If they do not want you to use his stuff then it is completely his decision and we should respect their decision and do as much as we can from our end by deleting that content.”
Newman has written that writing about the takedown is not a mistake but this order has come from the company’s side. Many people have thought that the notice was part of a malicious troll and that someone was using social media posts to make fun of the gaming community and people did not believe in Newman’s tweet.
This decision was taken because they had noticed a lot of company-related content was getting misused. They have also told their modders to join them by deleting all their Nintendo content from the workshop. Not many people are convinced but in February many contents got flagged by DMCA claims. Well, this thing has not caused any surprise to the developers because this is their company’s content and they have the right to protect this content. Facepunch Studio’s decision should be respected and modders should remove everything. This is a very straightforward clarification that comes from the developers’ side without mincing the words. Newman said that we are known for the protectiveness of our IPs and Brands. The last thing the developers can do is take Nintendo to court and have the game permanently deleted.
However, it is surprising that it took so long for the company to notice these things in Garry’s turn, and take the necessary action.
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A little brief about Garry’s Mod History –
Garry’s mod was released by Garry Newman as Valve’s source engine in December 2004. It is a PC version that is played on a laptop. Facepunch Studios is Garry Newman’s company under which Garry’s mod was created. Garry Newman was a college dropout when he made the game. He made this game as a hobby and later he started his career through this game after that he worked on many websites but his success came mainly from Garry’s mode.