Nintendo continues its fight against gamers

[Iron]

All in all though, I still hold with the overall message in the PC World article.  Even if there wasn't what I feel like is a considerable gray area when it comes to fangame development, the end result is that it's a display of fans' passion and appreciation for the franchise -- and can even help bring greater awareness and enthusiasm to the main series -- and shutting down these games is A) pointless because people will still make them anyway, and B) ultimately harmful to the company and its franchise by alienating fans.  Shutting down Essentials was the tipping point for several people here in this forum (probably across other fan communities as well), and while a small handful of people on one quiet fangame forum probably won't mean much to Nintendo right now.... the harder they push and the more people they turn away, they'll eventually start feeling that somewhere, whether it's their pocketbooks or social media backlash.

I definitely agree with this.