Japanese gaming company Nintendo is known for being rough on anything that bothers them. YouTuber Eric “PointCrow” Morino is getting the wrath of Nintendo. He begs Nintendo to let him go. But they seem to have him in their crosshairs since he commissioned and presented a multiplayer mod for “Zelda: Breath of the Wild”.
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What did he upset Nintendo with? The trouble began on April 6, when PointCrow uploaded footage from a Breath of the Wild “multiplayer mod” that he had commissioned himself.
Although the YouTuber had never had problems with Nintendo before, he apparently ended up in Nintendo’s crosshairs with the “mod”. Nintendo is known for being tough on people who create content for their games.
They issued copyright strikes against his videos. He then contacted Nintendo on Twitter on April 7th. He said he was “very disappointed” with the blocking of Breath of the Wild videos.
PointCrow said he loves the game and the community and hopes Nintendo will reconsider the decision. After all, that love and innovation would keep the game alive and bring new people to the Zelda series.
Already in the screenshot on Twitter you can see 4 banned videos with over 6.5 million views and thousands of comments. The videos are no longer displayed and do not generate any income:
After he seeks dialogue on Twitter, it only gets worse
How does Nintendo deal with him? According to the streamer, after asking Nintendo to withdraw the copyright strikes, it did the opposite and issued even more copyright strikes on videos that were up to 4 years old and had nothing to do with modding.
In total he now has 28 videos that are blocked and generating no views or money. At the time they were blocked, the videos had, roughly speaking, collected 55 million views:
“The takedowns started out with modded content, but they’ve evolved into something very different,” he says in a video (via youtube).
This is what YouTube says: He wrongly sees himself in the crosshairs. He never advertised pirated copies. The mods he commissioned are not being sold, the code is “custom” and has no Nintendo assets.
What worries him most is that he’s being targeted now, 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 Nintendo’s “revenge”. to fear.
He actually wanted to challenge the copyright strikes first, but decided against it so as not to endanger his channel, which has 1.6 million subscribers.
“Copyright strikes” are a tried and tested way for game developers to target individual content creators:
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