The ACTUAL Problem with MFGG

[Willsaber]

People make fangames to pay tribute to (or gently parody) the source material. Many of the best fangames (such as Mushroom Pancakes or Normal Super Mario Bros.) are very creative in that they have unique gameplay mechanics and do things that Nintendo probably wouldn't do with the franchise. However, I won't argue that they're not derivative - they're fangames, and fangames are, by their very nature, derivative. If you're working on a game that uses extremely innovative gameplay elements, you're probably going to make an indie game so you don't feel limited by the boundaries of the source material, and so you can monetize your work.

To be clear, the "problem" I referred to in the title of this thread isn't that mentality itself, but rather the effect that mentality is having on site activity. The nature of this community is leading to a gradual decline in active members, and eventually, this community will likely subsist on a skeleton crew of oldbies and then quietly die altogether.

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