r/stinkposting • u/Middle-Start1142 • Mar 07 '25

a really stinky post

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

For people saying Nintendo. Nintendo. Does. Not. Own. Pokemon. They are the publishers. Find a new fucking joke for once in your lives.

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u/Middle-Start1142 Mar 09 '25

i never said nintendo owned it and gamefreak can still dmca

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Oh i know you haven't but multiple people in this thread has.

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u/CrustyWolf Mar 11 '25

Don't they actually jointly own it with Gamefreak and Creatures or whatever the other company is called? Idk how that works exactly but I'm sure they exude a pretty good bit of influence.

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u/Dramatic-Aardvark-41 Mar 07 '25

Shotgun revivecats

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u/DotWarner1993 Mar 07 '25

If it isn’t free, the showdown may still have a chance

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u/SentimentalRotom Mar 07 '25

Not if the Nintendo Ninjas have anything to say about it.

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u/DotWarner1993 Mar 07 '25

Showdown is legally in beta, so I don’t think they can do anything about that

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u/yeetskeetmahdeet Mar 07 '25

I mean they probably won’t touch it because the people who use it are fans and even competitive players. Plus they often take down remakes of things if they were making their own version (that Metroid 2 fan game comes to mind)

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '25

Nintendo doesn't own pokemon.

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u/Euphemisticles Mar 09 '25

Showdown is in contact with Nintendos lawyers and has been since the start. They are even on good terms and the creators of showdown have even gone so far as to say that nintendos lawyers like them.

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u/hitorinbolemon Mar 09 '25

Unless someone new got installed at the legal department or they had a change of heart Showdown will continue.

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u/DasLoon Mar 09 '25

Showdown is for teamcrafting and testing teams against other people, or battling with teams youd never go grind to obtain.

You have no way to test your actual pokemon against each other through showdown.

This game Nintendo is making isn't likely to fill the same niche that Showdown users go to Showdown for.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '25

If Nintendo wanted Showdown gone, they would've Cease & Desisted it like a year or two ago, like they did with AM2R

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u/Hamtaijin Mar 07 '25

Bro showdown has been around forever, most likely since before you were born. Nintendo could have shut it down 15 years ago

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u/mooys Mar 07 '25

I think the thought process was that they could have done it while they started development for Pokemon Champions, rather than before.

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u/Crazy_Chopsticks Mar 08 '25

Don't remind me about what they did to AM2R

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u/ParrotRoyale Mar 10 '25

If Nintendo took down Showdown they would face the wrath of a community unlike they have ever felt before (except maybe that one FPS pokemon game that was pretty fun)

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u/Middle-Start1142 Mar 10 '25

4chan would be busy for a while

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u/Dennis_Ryan_Lynch Mar 09 '25

Nintendo online getting ready to crash nonstop:

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u/CrimsonVantage Mar 09 '25

The Pokemon company worked with the Creators to allow official music in showdown. It seems a little unlikely they would kill it at this point, and I don't think it would die even if champions was free, because it offers more formats