The last few weeks have been a rather tumultuous period for Nintendo and its fan communities, to say the least. After a Super Smash Bros. tournament was shut down by Nintendo for its plans to use third-party software to run the event online, several teams in the Splatoon 2 North American Open used “Free Melee” hashtags in their names to protest the decision. The livestream for the Splatoon 2 finals was then cancelled, further upsetting fans who felt Nintendo had intervened.
Now, Nintendo appears to have angered fans once again, after sending a cease and desist letter to a custom Joy-Con creator who was selling Etika-themed shells for charity.
Content creator CptnAlex, who runs an Etsy store selling custom controllers, said he was sent a cease and desist from Nintendo covering all his products – and the Etikons were caught up in the mix. “While [Nintendo] didn’t specifically tell me why each design was taken down, they did include a list of copyrights my designs broke, and the word Joy-Con was on that list,” CptnAlex said. “This is my only design specifically with the word Joy-Con on it, so that’s obviously what they were referencing when they attached that.”
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