Garry’s Mod is a sandbox game for players to unleash their creativity. Now, the developer has to remove all content related to Nintendo. This is especially surprising because the game is 20 years old.
Nintendo has been aggressively pursuing developers and players for years who use protected material from their licenses in their own products or mods. For instance, Nintendo took action against hand-painted guides from a fan and recently sued against emulators for Switch games.
Now, another developer has been “caught,” and this is particularly surprising because the game in question is also 20 years old.
Garry’s Mod must remove all Nintendo content
Facepunch Studios, the developer of Garry’s Mod, stated in a post on Steam that they have received notice from Nintendo to remove all content. Facepunch Studios remarked that these are indeed Nintendo’s contents, and their request is therefore justified. The statement reads:
Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo workshops were recently removed. This is not a mistake; the removal was prompted by Nintendo.
Honestly, it’s only fair. These are Nintendo’s contents, and what they allow and what they don’t is their business. They don’t want people to play with this stuff in Garry’s Mod – that’s their decision, and we must respect that and remove as much as we can.
This is an ongoing process as we have to go through 20 years of uploads. If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo-related uploads and never uploading them again, that would be very helpful for us.
What’s next? The colleagues from IGN report that at the current time (as of 25.04.24), there are still thousands of contents related to Nintendo:
- Mario currently has more than 5,500 entries, Luigi has still 1,200
- Zelda has 800
- And Kirby has 739 entries
Therefore, it might take some time until all content is gone. Facepunch Studios now has to go through 20 years of content to find everything.
Why are there so many Nintendo contents? Garry’s Mod is a sandbox game for players to express themselves freely. The game relies on people creating and using content and mods. And Nintendo and its content are so popular that they are widely used.
More about Nintendo: A user tells how he found a game at his grandmother’s 26 times. No one knows why, but the grandchild suspects that the grandmother didn’t know how to delete the save game.
