The Japanese gaming company Nintendo is known for being rough with anything that disturbs them in any way. The anger of Nintendo is currently directed at YouTuber Eric “PointCrow” Morino. He pleads with Nintendo to leave him alone. However, they apparently have him in their sights since he commissioned and showcased a multiplayer mod for “Zelda: Breath of the Wild.”
Who is this?
- PointCrow is one of the most important YouTubers for “Zelda: Breath of the Wild,” which is the open-world Zelda from 2017, with which Nintendo established the Switch. Our chief editor Leya affectionately called the Switch “her Zelda machine.”
- PointCrow still makes videos for the 6-year-old game and often reaches more than a million views per video.
- However, 10 days ago, he attracted the wrath of Nintendo USA and they are taking tough action against him.
YouTuber commissions multiplayer mod, shows it on YouTube
What did he do to upset Nintendo? The trouble began on April 6, when PointCrow uploaded material from a “multiplayer mod” of Breath of the Wild that he had commissioned himself.
Although the YouTuber had never had issues with Nintendo before, it seems that he has become a target of Nintendo with the “mod.” Nintendo is known for being tough with people who create content for their games.
They issued copyright strikes against his videos. He subsequently sought contact with Nintendo on Twitter on April 7. He stated that he was “very disappointed” about the blocking of his Breath of the Wild videos.
PointCrow said he loves the game and the community and hopes that Nintendo reconsiders their decision. After all, this love and innovation would keep the game alive and bring new people to the Zelda series.
The screenshot on Twitter already shows 4 banned videos with over 6.5 million views and thousands of comments. The videos are no longer displayed and do not generate any revenue:
After he seeks dialogue on Twitter, it only gets worse
How is Nintendo proceeding against him? According to the streamer, after his request to retract the copyright strikes, Nintendo did the opposite and issued even more copyright strikes against videos that are partially 4 years old and have nothing to do with modding.
In total, he now has 28 videos that are blocked and generate neither views nor revenue. At the time of their blocking, the videos had collectively, roughly estimated, gathered 55 million views:
“The takedown started with modded content, but it has evolved into something completely different,” he says in a video (via youtube).
This is what the YouTuber says: He feels unjustly targeted. He never promoted piracy. The mods he commissioned are not sold; the code is “custom” and does not contain any assets from Nintendo.
He is particularly concerned that he is now being targeted right before the release of “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom”: This makes it difficult for all content creators to post creative content without fearing Nintendo’s “revenge.”
Initially, he wanted to contest the copyright strikes but decided against it to avoid endangering his channel with 1.6 million subscribers.
“Copyright strikes” are a proven means for game developers to specifically target individual content creators:
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