The next target for the never-ending Nintendo takedown notices, or Nintakedowns, is the 20-odd-year-old Garry’s Mod.
According to a Steam post on Garry’s Mod Steam page, gamers will start to see “certain Nintendo-related workshop items” disappear from the workshop.
They go on to say this is not a mistake. It’s because Nintendo has issued a takedown notice.
Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down. This is not a mistake, the takedowns came from Nintendo.
Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo’s content and what they allow and don’t allow is up to them. They don’t want you playing with that stuff in Garry’s Mod – that’s their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can.
This is an ongoing process, as we have 20 years of uploads to go through. If you want to help us by deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again, that would help us a lot.
As stated above, there’s a lot of content to sift through—20 whole years of it—and that means it’s going to take quite a bit of work. So, the developers are asking anyone who has uploaded any Nintendo-related content to remove it themselves and never upload it again. Ever.
To show readers how much work this really is, Dustin Baily from GamesRadar did a quick search for the word “Mario” on Garry’s Mod workshop page and found over 5,600 results or 188 pages. That’s just one red-hatted plumber. Imagine all the Pokémon and Zelda content that exists within the Steam Workshop, too.
