I know that feel, I’ve been hit by Hasbro’s big ol’ C&D… though oddly enough, not for anything MLP related.

@Arne  
What if someone steals your laptop?

hasbro like any other big company, most act on copyright issues…
 
because in the end, they dont care about us.

@FancyCat2008  
Well, I hope they know what they’re doing. I’d hate to see that project get canned too.

@Background Pony #17C6  
It’s worse than that; M6 weren’t even the ones who entered it. If some dope hadn’t got overenthusiastic about it, the project might have got near enough to completion that it could have been taken the rest of the way by any competent developer instead of the bodged half-a-game of that “Tribute Edition”.

Of course you won’t… if you’re smart and don’t tell anyone about until it’s done.

@Millennial Dan  
Apparently it’s coming along quite well. They are going to be demonstrating the newest build at this year’s BronyCon.

I wonder how Smash Ponies is coming along, or if they’re still working on it.

@Background Pony #232C  
For the purposes of this discussion, Starswirl doesn’t count as they were politely asked to change character names instead of being shut down. The card game was ripping off MLP and MTG, and we got an official one out of the deal anyway.
 
My point is there are far more completed/near complete fan games out there than C&D’d ones. It’s a publicity issue more than anything else. There are very few fangames that can reach the level of completeness and popularity that something like Fighting Is Magic achieved, and NOT get hammered down by corporate lawyers. That goes for just about any fandom/licensed property. Hasbro has been and continues to be remarkably lenient with MLP fan content, especially compared to other companies like Nickelodeon and Disney.

@FancyCat2008  
There haven’t been too many big fangames that a lot of people were working on, but the ones that there have been that I’ve seen were all C&D’d.

@FancyCat2008  
Starswirl Academy wasn’t C&D’d, but they were asked to change the names. Also that card game that fans had been working on for a while got shut down to pave the way for the official one.

@Background Pony #C971  
Oh right, I forgot about that one. It was so long ago and so far away from being finished I forgot it existed.
 
Well, keep going then. Since “Every good one that comes close to being finished” gets C&D’d, you must be able to come up with plenty more examples.

@Background Pony #C971  
Sure. Just like My Little Investigations, Karaoke Is Magic, Minty Fresh Adventure, Legends Of Equestria, Super Lesbian Horse RPG, Story of The Blanks, MegaPony, and Twilight Sparkle’s Secret Shipfic Folder.

People continue to realize that open source is a reliable method to avoid effective C&D. No open-source project has ever successfully been destroyed in that way to my knowledge. But people are too control-freaky to want to do open source sometimes.

@FancyCat2008  
MLP: Online

@Background Pony #C971  
Name one other than Fighting is Magic.

Well, you won’t if you don’t go waving it around at major fighting game conventions/tournaments.

@VoltraTheLively  
Not all of them, but Hasbro has interfered with more than one.

@VoltraTheLively  
Every good one that comes even remotely close to getting finished does. :P

Because EVERY SINGLE FANGAME gets C&Ded, right? Riiiight?