There’s bad news for Zelda’s multiplayer Breath of the Wild mod
Nintendo has never been any good at maintaining multiplayer games, with Splatoon being the only real outlier.
The gaming giant is notoriously bad with maintaining servers, what with Super Smash Bros. never having the internet capabilities that it deserved across all of its titles, and players have taken it upon themselves to give Nintendo titles their own multiplayer modes.
Super Mario Odyssey has a rich online community thanks to player-built mods, and the same is true of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - but as we approach the release of Tears of the Kingdom, it looks like Nintendo has finally cracked down.
Nintendo crushes the Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod
Click to enlargeYeah, we could have seen this coming too. Nintendo has engaged in its favourite hobby of dishing out cease and desist letters, threatening the team behind the popular multiplayer mod for Breath of the Wild and forcing them to shut down the mod.
YouTuber PointCrow set up an initiative for modders to come together and build a multiplayer mod for the Zelda game, and only a few days after its official launch, it has been pulled by Nintendo.
"I have taken down the mods in this Discord as I am currently in talks with Nintendo," says PointCrow in the Discord channel that offered the mod. "All I can share right now, please no speculation and understand that I will update you all as much as I can."
PointCrow explains Nintendo drama
PointCrow is remembered for offering a whopping $10,000 to someone who could create a multiplayer mod for BotW. Now, he's taken to YouTube to further help fans to make sense of what's going on with the mod and his video takedowns.
"You're stifling that imagination and punishing those who want to share it with others when they do it in the way that you have outlined for us creators," he says in direct response to Nintendo's takedowns against mod-centric content creators.
It's a massively bleak signifier of Nintendo's attitudes to the most creative of their fans - and it's clear as day that they don't have any intention of slowing down. Sob.
