Mario's NFT project was stopped by Nintendo This time the players cheered

Player-made Super Mario-themed games, if they are slightly popular, will most likely be targeted by Nintendo. Recently, another homemade game has entered the field of vision of Nintendo's legal department, but this time the player did not feel sorry. The 1up platform is a virtual currency product that has just been launched this year, which has a large number of infringing content and art works, and now it has finally provoked the old Ren.

1up is a "retro game platform where everyone can upgrade using NFTs", hoping to take advantage of the boom in NFTs to make a lot of money. In its promotional article, the platform is very blunt in saying that it wants to "put Mario and his friends on the blockchain" and "turn the classic old game that players know and love into a 2D battle royale".

Theoretically, players can place bets on online platform games, and after winning, they can get NFT rewards. In the beta version that went live this month, a large number of players have joined. As a result, the overwhelmed 1up accidentally put the video on Twitter last week, which directly attracted the attention of fans of the "Super Mario" series and informed Nintendo of this situation. Platform operators are frantically skinning games to avoid risk.

Some players found that a video related to the project on YouTube had been removed at Nintendo's request. It seems that it is only a matter of time before the whole project is yellow. Neither 1up nor Nintendo responded to the situation.

The project administrator said on the Telegram channel: "Well, quietly developed for such a long time, now you are too late to move, so that North American Nintendo has a [crying and laughing expression]. ”

Users who had previously invested in the platform expressed their concerns and angered users who reported to Nintendo. And some users think that the higher the attention of this matter, the better.

One user wrote: "Many people are willing to support this platform, give Nintendo a middle finger, and everyone likes to support the vulnerable." If Nintendo sues, the value of this project may be directly in space. ”

But the Mario NFT project is more than that. Some netizens said that the pictures and games on the project's homepage were directly transported from elsewhere. The game bears too many similarities to the previous player-made Battle Royale Mario (Super Mario Bros. 35, a battle royale game that preceded Nintendo).

The 1up game isn't the only Mario NFT project on the market. There is also the "Mario World Fan Coin", but the NFT product is supposed to be a digital form that guarantees the continued and stable benefit of the original author of the work, and the copycat product launched in this form has to be said to be a kind of irony. If Shigeru Miyamoto himself launched the real Mario NFT, I am afraid that it would be bought at the first time.

The 1up Telegram administrator issued another statement yesterday calling it an "excellent stand-alone project," saying:

"I'm a community administrator behind an excellent independent project with an anonymous team behind it. Our goal is to innovate one of the best ideas of 2019. For reasons that are well known, Nintendo called off this innovation. We enhanced the project's combat system with the goal of showing the closed community how far we can develop this idea through innovation. We now feel that these ideas have dried up to death. It's all thanks to Nintendo's licking dogs. We originally used the closed beta video to pull people to expand the size of the community. When the full version is launched, we will change to the homemade style, and then we will be disconnected from Nintendo's fan works. Now it's just a proof of concept. The game's engines are all homemade and will be used in other original games. Now, at least everyone is starting to talk about this new idea. ”

"Innovation comes at a cost. Some people complain that player-made things are used here. In fact, the platform itself allows authors to publish homemade game levels, characters, and drawings, and then play on the crypto platform. These ideas and paintings will all become NFTs that can be leased or purchased. The income generated by the NFT circulation is provided to the author. That's how we bring about change. ”