Nintendo Forcing Garry’s Mod To Delete 20 Years Of Content

Garry’s moda popular 2006 Sandbox game that emerged from the modding scene around Valve’s Source software, recently received takedown notices by Nintendo. As a result, Facepunch Studios, the developers of Garry’s modare in the process of removing around 20 years of Nintendo-related content from the game.

In an update of Garry’s modIt is Steam “, the developers said: “Some of you may have noticed that some Nintendo-related Workshop elements have recently been removed. This is not an error, the withdrawals came from Nintendo. »

The update continues: “Honestly, that’s pretty fair. This is Nintendo content and what they allow and what they don’t allow is up to them. They don’t want you to play with these things Garry’s mod – it’s their decision, we must respect that and eliminate as much as possible.

Despite The litigious nature of Nintendo, not to mention its fierce protection of its brand image and that of its mascots, Nintendo’s announcement comes as a bit of a shock. As the update notes, Nintendo content has been hosted on Garry’s mod For almost 20 years. Models of countless Nintendo mascots like Mario have been ported to the Source engine for the enjoyment of all who play Garry’s mod from the very beginning. It’s strange that Nintendo would suddenly come out of nowhere and force the removal of so much content, especially since the flexibility of the Source engine in Garry’s mod This is largely the appeal of the game, which was popularized in the early 2010s by a large number of YouTube gaming personalities playing multiplayer social deduction games in Garry’s mod such as Hunting for accessories And Troubles in a terrorist city. Of course, one could also argue that Facepunch was sometimes a a little too lenient on what they allowed Garry’s modmaking sense of Nintendo’s decision to act after all this time.

Nintendo-themed add-ons appear to have started to be removed a few months ago, although Facepunch did not publicly disclose that the company had posted the takedowns until earlier today. The process has been “in progress” since then, and the developers are still working to remove everything, which is understandably a 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 downloads and never downloading them again, that would help us a lot .”