I have reinstalled the game on my Steam Deck, only to notice all images in the database have been removed!

I have read absolutely no news on this, and looking it up only the original takedown for the Pokemon Switch games come up and I even remember then still being up after those were removed.

When did this happen? This is a PC game!

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    I have read absolutely no news

    I mean it shouldn’t be news at this point.

    This is a blatant violation of Nintendo copyright, a very litigious company that’s been known to go after their own fan projects for much less, often completely legitimate and legal services. No one should be surprised.

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    7 months ago

    this happens a lot on steamgriddb. Nintendo takes down a lot of stuff from the website, but I would just skip over the ones taken down and find one from a more recent uploader.

    its why I try to keep an eye on the images I’ve uploaded just in case Nintendo feels like they can stop me. I just re-upload when they do the silly takedown nonsense.

    they can’t stop us. just grab another that has been recently uploaded for your game art.

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      7 months ago

      Unfortunately it seems not much is left, and who originally uploaded didn’t still. The game is not that popular unfortunately it’s a quite dead f2p game actually.

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        7 months ago

        the only other thing I can recommend is to make your own images for the art using the sizes indicated by steamgriddb. you can apply them yourself but its a bit of a pain in the ass. so i typically just upload my own and use the sgdboop to put them on.

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    7 months ago

    Not really a Steam deck issue, but I know Nintendo does a lot of copyright strikes on Steamgriddb images.

  • p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Oh no please don’t hurt the small financially limited indy company nintendo with your big mean image databases. :(