04-18-2018, 10:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2018, 10:26 PM by Evil Yoshi Toes.)
@GamerInGeorgia MFGG was pretty big once and as far as I know Nintendo didn't seem to mind. It is worth noting that the quality of fangames has improved since then, so perhaps that would cause more issue.
Still, I don't think it's a much larger risk than MFGG currently is. Fan games that come closest to rivaling official games in terms of quality, like Midas Machine and Flashback, have been fine while direct remakes have been shut down for obvious reasons. I'd assume the existence of fan games is known by Nintendo, but they don't shut down games that aren't direct remakes and that make no profit because they don't detract from business.
Keeping "Nintendo" out of our title would make it even less of a risk but I think having that in our title would be necessary unless we branch out to fan games in general, Nintendo related or not.
I don't really know how web browsers work, but would changing our site name greatly affect whether or not we come up after a "Mario fan game" search? We are a pretty prominent fan game site and just by searching "fan game" we are one of the tops, underneath Game Jolt. I'd think we'd still come up for "mario fan game" since we'd have more Mario related content than any other fan-game-related site and we come up so quickly even with "mario" omitted. But again, I don't know a lot about how this kind of thing works.
Still, I don't think it's a much larger risk than MFGG currently is. Fan games that come closest to rivaling official games in terms of quality, like Midas Machine and Flashback, have been fine while direct remakes have been shut down for obvious reasons. I'd assume the existence of fan games is known by Nintendo, but they don't shut down games that aren't direct remakes and that make no profit because they don't detract from business.
Keeping "Nintendo" out of our title would make it even less of a risk but I think having that in our title would be necessary unless we branch out to fan games in general, Nintendo related or not.
I don't really know how web browsers work, but would changing our site name greatly affect whether or not we come up after a "Mario fan game" search? We are a pretty prominent fan game site and just by searching "fan game" we are one of the tops, underneath Game Jolt. I'd think we'd still come up for "mario fan game" since we'd have more Mario related content than any other fan-game-related site and we come up so quickly even with "mario" omitted. But again, I don't know a lot about how this kind of thing works.