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Wouldn't corporate branding be enough? Even if Mario entered into public domain, Nintendo Mario games would still be the superior choice. It isn't like people
by SkyBelow 7y ago
Wouldn't corporate branding be enough?
Even if Mario entered into public domain, Nintendo Mario games would still be the superior choice. It isn't like people would be allowed to claim their game was an official Nintendo Mario game. Profitable IPs would also be able to grow their IP as a means of protection. For example, there would be a significant time lag between when Mario would enter the public domain and Yoshi would, and as such more recent Nintendo games couldn't be copied because they include Yoshi (replace Yoshi with dozens of even newer characters).
Edit: One way to think of it is that others could only use the cannon as it existed 30 years ago. As long as the IP isn't dropped and fans like where it is going, that provides a significant barrier of protection from others branching off and making their own cannon.
- onion2k 7y agoIt wouldn't be so much that thousands of people make a Mario game (people do that already) and Nintendo gets screwed as much as EA makes a Mario game and and uses the IP without paying Nintendo anything. EA being able to freely make "Battlefield Mushroom Kingdom III: Micropayments Edition" would not be a good thing.
- danbolt 7y agoNintendo (or better yet, and indie developer) remaking EA's public domain works into better products would be a great thing.
- SkyBelow 7y agoWhy would it not be a good thing? Every game involves people using public domain material and not paying the entity who would've owned it. Imagine if every game with dragons had to pay whomever currently held the IP for dragons, that wouldn't be good.
- app4soft 7y ago> Even if Mario entered into public domain, Nintendo Mario games would still be the superior choice FTR, The source code for Super Mario Bros. X, a well-known Mario fangame, is now open under the MIT license.[0,1] [0] https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25160 https://www.supermariobrosx.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25160 [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/comments/f8tira/the_source_code_for_super_mario_bros_x_a/ https://old.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/comments/f8tira/the...