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Is your standard for corporate behavior really “as long as it’s not a literal crime, they can’t be criticized”?
In this way, it was only a matter of time that Pony Kart would receive C&D if this project kept going.
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?!!!
Pony town is enough of its own thing to not be directly associated with MLP (I remember early on they had manes and tails that looked more in par with ones from the show that were eventually changed).
Them’s Fighting Herds is a direct result of a C&D. It has no relation to the MLP brand despite it’s origins because it came from a C&D from Hasbro.
Just wait until you see what is happening to G5, behind the scene…
There is absolutely no such thing as an apolitical megacoperation. And unfortunately for every human they are considered more human than us in the eyes of every legal system on the planet.
What? I don’t use Twitter! Did something happen?
:/
:wheeze:
What I meant was unlike Ben and Jerry’s, they don’t stick their nose in politics
Wait, do they?
>he thinks Hasbro is “just some toy company”
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HAS/hasbro/net-worth
“Hasbro net worth as of April 13, 2021 is $13.36B.”
They’re a billion dollar multi-media corporation.
Wait, Hasbro? But they’re little more than a toy company. I’m not saying they’re immune to criticism and I’m not shilling for them either, but I think your mindset is misdirected.
Twitter, Facebook, Google, CNN, ect are much more obvious donors in the political game than Hasbro.
Megacorporations like Hasbro are the ones who pay off the politicians who make the laws. So yes, fuck them.
Is it your contention that we can’t criticize companies for doing anything that’s not technically illegal?
Legal right my ass, these developers weren’t making money off Hasbro’s IP, the game was COMPLETELY FREE TO PLAY.
Meanwhile out here, around the World, there are so many MLP bootlegs for sale that Have NO LICENSE from Hasbro and the people who product that crap MAKE MONEY off ‘em, but it appears that Hasbro doesn’t give a shit about that, because apparently destroying fan projects is way easier and has the priority
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Calls a Votekick
Results:Hasbro-100 & Bronies-Error number exceeds limits beyond 100
Conclusion:It was no contest, Bronies had the higher number, so Hasbro has been Votekicked.
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They do have a right to be dicks, that is correct.
Yes, fuck them for exercising their legal right
SSSSHHHHHHH!!!!
Don’t jinx it!
@Background Pony #945F
The problem with buying a license from Hasbro isn’t even so much that it’s expensive, it’s that they’ll just tell you straight up “No, you’re not allowed to do that for this project.” I’m expecting that to be the case here, but even if by some miracle it isn’t the case then you would get back to it being expensive.
The idea is that they go after projects that have substantial quality or longevity. If the project garnered enough notoriety, they’ll go after it because it’s taking attention away from their IP. I can understand the legal purpose of it, but if it’s a passion project produced by fans for a relatively small demographic (compared to that of the overall consumer base), they should overlook it as long as it doesn’t cut into their profits, whilst the project itself is not making a profit. Too many times in the past decade have good projects have gone without making a profit for their creators and gotten C&D’d for less. This one has some legal grounding because of Patreon, but plenty of others haven’t even come close and have gotten the banhammer.
Most other corporations have openly accepted a lot of their fan community developments, some of which growing to decades of appreciation that lead to greater longevity and more investors looking to buy into the company. Even the top-notch developments had paid staff to produce fan content, and have gotten nothing from the IP holders (see Sonic fandom, Trekkies, Star Wars fandom, etc). Capcom hasn’t gone after Mighty No. 9 yet, and they honestly don’t need to with how bad it bombed “like an anime fan on prom night.” A lot of fan projects that don’t have Nintendo or Hasbro’s IP’s have had successful runs and have led to the jump start of many careers, be it art design, game production, coding, music composition, sound design, storyboard writers, and many more.
The way the two corporations go about it is archaic at best, and crippling at worst. They look past the human element and only look at the minor instance of it being potentially good enough to sell a profit (even if the game is completely free to play with no DLC or “SURPRISE MECHANICS” to sell).
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so hasbro just keep original own design than fanmade?
i know this worst scenario why hasbro doing,i’m just asking dude.