Another News Outlet Proclaims the Death of Uranium

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Not everyone is a social butterfly (Like me, despite my ehm, presence here on the forums). I didn't like the idea of going out into the world and exploring, and the nature of a game leave little to desire for me. A Pokémon game is somewhat of a social experience, yes with all the trading and battling, but Go sacrifces the solo, personal experience for the Global one. (....) I prefer being at home gaming, not walking around like a star dazed bloke.

YES! TRUE WORDS!! YOU SAY IT!!! See, myself? It's not just you with your awkward old-schooled view on gaming! *insert maniac laughter with a happy undertone here* Take a free cookie, Windos! *throws it in your face without further warning*

Uh... *coughcough* Well, then. Please continue like the upper never ever happened.

[Iron]

Pokemon Go is the best pokemon game idea there's ever been, an even better idea than the PokeMMO idea.

But everything you say here is true too: It is buggy (getting less buggy) and relies on leaving the house (which is to my taste but not to everyone's). It's been mismanaged by Niantic. Someday it will be better.

[MonkeyLord83]

when the mods who runs the Facebook page for the game itself shared the news ponouncing its death, you gotta wonder, wtf, really?! why isn't said person more informed? =.=

https://www.facebook.com/PokemonUranium/?fref=ts

[Lord Windos]

Oh my. It seems like someone should be keeping a closer feel on the pulse of the community. If they don't, they might be able to feel its beat, after all...

[CodySP]

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http://pokemonuranium.co/forum <- Does this look dead to you? DOES IT!?

[Spiritmon]

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http://pokemonuranium.co/forum <- Does this look dead to you? DOES IT!?

Well in a way, its a good idea they think Pokemon Uranium is dead. Imagined if Nintendo heard about Pokemon Uranium its alive. They would imeadiatly try to take down again, just like what they do before. Pokemon Uranium its safe. For a now at least. This is why we must be very very careful.

[Lord Windos]

<Insert Snarky comment here>

http://pokemonuranium.co/forum <- Does this look dead to you? DOES IT!?

Well in a way, its a good idea they think Pokemon Uranium is dead. Imagined if Nintendo heard about Pokemon Uranium its alive. They would imeadiatly try to take down again, just like what they do before. Pokemon Uranium its safe. For a now at least. This is why we must be very very careful.

Well, we want more people to know the game is alive, just not people in business suits, so to speak....

[c2h5oc2h5]

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http://pokemonuranium.co/forum <- Does this look dead to you? DOES IT!?

Well in a way, its a good idea they think Pokemon Uranium is dead. Imagined if Nintendo heard about Pokemon Uranium its alive. They would imeadiatly try to take down again, just like what they do before. Pokemon Uranium its safe. For a now at least. This is why we must be very very careful.

I think Nintendo (or anyone who is interested) knows anyway. Finding this gorums is easy as typing "Pokemon Uranium" in google and bothering to look through first several results.

Personally I agree with guys above who have said that newsmans just want catchy controversial news. I don't even think most of those newsman really care or bother to research about Pokemon games in generalgeneral or Pokemon Uranium specifically.

When Pokemon Uranium link was took down, I've read a news on a Polish gaming site that claimed Nintendo killed fan made game that was just clearly better in any way than any official Pokemon game. News claimed that Nintendo killed a game because they couldn't do anything as good and went as far as claiming Uranium had novel ideas never seen  in Pokemon games before, such as... multiplayer! Whether one thinks Uranium is better than official games is a matter of preference, but all in all news was just mispresenting facts. It has raised some heated discussion in comments. Apart from hate on "bad Nintendo", some people did point out that what was written in the news wasn't entirely true. Author of the news joined duscussion and eventually admitted that he has played only Pokemon Red/Blue and tried Uranium for only hour or so. I don't consider it honest journalism. It disturbs me that most news claiming Uranium dead follow this scheme: newsman barely know any Pokemon game and don't really care, but he has read somewhere that Uranium is dead and this makes a great shocking news... and who would bother with research...

And, by the way, apart from taking down Uranium download links from Megaupload (or where was it uploaded upon official release?) did Nintendo took any action against original Pokemon Uranium devs? Were there forced to end development, or did they resigned from future development because game is finished and they decided it's time to move on?

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

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When Pokemon Uranium link was took down, I've read a news on a Polish gaming site that claimed Nintendo killed fan made game that was just clearly better in any way than any official Pokemon game. News claimed that Nintendo killed a game because they couldn't do anything as good and went as far as claiming Uranium had novel ideas never seen  in Pokemon games before, such as... multiplayer! Whether one thinks Uranium is better than official games is a matter of preference, but all in all news was just mispresenting facts. It has raised some heated discussion in comments. Apart from hate on "bad Nintendo", some people did point out that what was written in the news wasn't entirely true. Author of the news joined duscussion and eventually admitted that he has played only Pokemon Red/Blue and tried Uranium for only hour or so. I don't consider it honest journalism. It disturbs me that most news claiming Uranium dead follow this scheme: newsman barely know any Pokemon game and don't really care, but he has read somewhere that Uranium is dead and this makes a great shocking news... and who would bother with research...
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Well, sadly as it is, but that's journalism.
@CodySP You have a new icon?

[EeveeBailey]

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And, by the way, apart from taking down Uranium download links from Megaupload (or where was it uploaded upon official release?) did Nintendo took any action against original Pokemon Uranium devs? Were there forced to end development, or did they resigned from future development because game is finished and they decided it's time to move on?

Nintendo didn't take down the download links.  The original devs voluntarily took down the links themselves when they received copyright violation notices from Nintendo of America's lawyers.  Nor were they forced to end development, as they had promised in their official statement that support and updates would continue.

Why they later resigned is anyone's guess.  Maybe they received more threats from Nintendo, maybe they got overwhelmed and burned out trying to keep up with support (especially in the wake of the hacker attacks on the original servers), or maybe they just decided it was time to let Uranium go and possibly move on to new projects.  They didn't really give much of an explanation in their final statement, and nobody else seems to know for sure what happened.