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Garry’s Mod, a popular 2006 sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, has recently been issued takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s Mod, are in the process of removing about 20 years’ worth of Nintendo-related content from the game.
In an update to Garry’s Mod’s Steam page, the developers stated, “Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down. This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo.”
The
update
continues,
“Honestly,
this
is
fair
enough.
This
is
Nintendo’s
content
and
what
they
allow
and
don’t
allow
is
up
to
them.
They
don’t
want
you
playing
with
that
stuff
in
Garry’s
Mod
-
that’s
their
decision,
we
have
to
respect
that
and
take
down
as
much
as
we
can.”
Despite
Nintendo’s
litigious
nature,
not
to
mention
its
fierce
protectiveness
over
its
brand
image
and
that
of
its
mascots,
the
notice
from
Nintendo
comes
as
a
bit
of
a
shock.
As
the
update
goes
on
to
note,
Nintendo
content
has
been
hosted
on
Garry’s
Mod
for
close
to
20
years.
Models
of
countless
Nintendo
mascots
like
Mario
have
been
ported
over
to
the
Source
engine
for
the
enjoyment
of
anyone
playing
Garry’s
Mod
since
the
very
beginning.
It’s
strange
for
Nintendo
to
suddenly
come
out
of
the
blue
and
enforce
a
takedown
of
this
much
content,
especially
since
the
flexibility
of
the
Source
engine
in
Garry’s
Mod
was
a
large
part
of
the
appeal
behind
the
game,
which
was
popularized
in
the
early
2010s
by
a
slew
of
gaming
Youtube
personalities
playing
multiplayer
social-deduction
games
in
Garry’s
Mod
such
as
Prop
Hunt
and
Trouble
In
Terrorist
Town.
Of
course,
you
could
also
argue
that
Facepunch
was,
at
times,
a
little
too
lenient
about
what
they
allowed
on
Garry’s
Mod,
making
sense
of
Nintendo’s
decision
to
take
action
after
all
this
time.
Nintendo-themed add-ons seem to have begun getting taken down a few months ago, though Facepunch didn’t publicly divulge that the company had issued the takedowns until earlier today. The process has been “ongoing” since then, and the developers are still working to remove all of it, which is an understandably Herculean task.
It’s so much, in fact, that at the very end of the update, Facepunch jokes that, “If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again, that would help us a lot.”
This article originally appeared on Kotaku.
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