If the player-made “Super Mario” theme game is slightly popular, it will probably be targeted by Nintendo. Recently, another self-made game entered the field of view of Nintendo’s legal department, but this time players did not feel sorry. The 1up platform is a virtual currency product that has just launched this year. It contains a large amount of infringing content and works of art. Now it has finally provoke the old man.
1up’s main focus is “a retro game platform where everyone can use NFT to upgrade”, and wants to take advantage of the rise of NFT to make a lot of money. In the promotional article, the platform stated very bluntly that it would “put Mario and his friends on the blockchain” and “turn the classic old games that players know and love into 2D Battle Royale”.
In theory, players can place bets in online platform games and get NFT rewards after victory. In the beta version launched this month, a large number of players have joined. As a result, the overwhelming 1up accidentally posted the video on Twitter last week, which directly attracted the attention of fans of the “Super Mario” series and informed the situation.Nintendo. Platform operators were crazy to change the game skin to avoid risks.
Some players discovered that a video related to the project on YouTube has been removed at the request of Nintendo. It seems that the yellowing of the entire project is just a matter of time. Neither 1up nor Nintendo responded to this situation.
The project manager said on the Telegram channel: “Well, it has been quietly developed for so long, and now you guys are moving too early, so that North American Nintendo will focus on [Cry Smile Emoji].”
Previously invested users on this platform expressed their worries and angered the users who informed Nintendo. And some users think that the higher the degree of attention, the better.
One user wrote: “Many people are willing to support this platform and give Nintendo a middle finger. Everyone likes to support disadvantaged groups. If Nintendo sues, the value of this project may even go directly to space.”
But in fact, the reason why this Mario NFT project provokes public anger does not stop there. Some netizens said that the pictures and games on the project homepage were directly moved from elsewhere. The game has many similarities with the previous player-made “Mario Battle Royale” (previously the battle royale game “Super Mario Bros. 35” launched by Nintendo).
The 1up game is not the only Mario NFT project on the market. There is also the “Mario World Fan Coin”, but the NFT product should be a digital form that guarantees that the original author of the work can continue to benefit from it. The copycat products launched under this form have to be said to be a kind of irony. If Shigeru Miyamoto himself launches the real Mario NFT, I am afraid it will be sold out in the first place.
The administrator of 1up Telegram issued a statement again yesterday, calling it an “excellent independent project.” He said:
“I am the community manager of the anonymous team behind an excellent independent project. Our goal is to innovate a great idea in 2019. For well-known reasons, Nintendo stopped this innovation. We put this project The goal is to show the closed community how far we can develop this idea through innovation. We now feel that these ideas have been exhausted to death. This is all thanks to Nintendo’s licking dog. We originally used it. The closed beta video to pull people to expand the size of the community. When the full version is launched, we will switch to a self-made painting style, and then we will be clear of the relationship with Nintendo’s fan works. Now this is just a proof of concept. The game engines are all Self-made, and will be used in other original games. Now it’s good, at least everyone is starting to talk about this new idea.”
“Innovation comes at a price. Some people complained that player-made things are used here. In fact, the platform itself allows authors to publish self-made game levels, characters and paintings, and then play games on an encrypted platform. These ideas and paintings will become NFT can be leased or purchased. The income generated by NFT circulation will be provided to the author. This is how we bring about change.”