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Last year, YouTuber and Twitch streamer PointCrow declared that he would pay $10,000 to anyone who managed to create a working multiplayer mod for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Well, two creators who go by stanz and ARCHITECT managed to do just that, and PointCrow made good on his promised reward. Just recently, the mod went public for the first time via Discord, and PointCrow has been sharing videos showing it off on his channel. As you might have guessed already, Nintendo wasn’t exactly thrilled about this.

According to PointCrow, Nintendo has demonetized several of his videos featuring the Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod (as well as some that don’t feature it at all). This means that while those videos are still available to watch, he is unable to make any money off of their views. (They were initially blocked altogether, but a YouTube appeal led to this new outcome.)

Nintendo is famously aggressive when it comes to quashing fan made mods, roms, and other unofficial projects that use their copyrighted material. It remains to be seen if they’ll change their minds about these particular videos, but as of now, it appears as though they’ll be demonetized permanently.

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ninjablaze

*plays tiniest violin*

I believe I could count the number of people who downloaded that mod who were playing using legally bought copies of BotW on one hand.

ngamer01

12M ago

Even though Pointcrow posted the copyright removals/demontizations came from NoA, I should mention that there have been a few instances of a troll masquerading as an official NoA staff member in the past who made false DMCA takedowns and monetization claims of Nintendo content or fan content.


smasher89

12M ago

the timing for these are usually 2-3 months before the release of a new game in the same ip, so maybe nintendo usually just check more around releasetimes which makes sence since having staff working on that would be the most efficient towards getting a good new game release or something.


ninjablaze

12M ago

*plays tiniest violin*

I believe I could count the number of people who downloaded that mod who were playing using legally bought copies of BotW on one hand.


nekotaku

12M ago

I thought it was illegal to begin with to make money on someone else's product.