If you’re an active Garry’s Mod user, you may have noticed that certain workshop items containing Nintendo characters, items, and more are currently being removed from the game. This is due to a takedown request the developers behind Garry’s Mod have received.
“Some of you may have noticed that certain Nintendo related workshop items have recently been taken down. This is not an error, the removals came from Nintendo,” it says in a post on Steam. “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 on Garry’s Mod – that’s their decision and we have to respect that and remove as much as we can.”
“This is an ongoing process as we have 20 years of uploads to go through. If you would help us by deleting your Nintendo related uploads and never uploading them again, it would help us a lot,” continues the post. It seems like the creators aren’t too worried about Nintendo coming in to take down the countless projects that people have worked on in the past, but at the end of the day it’s Nintendo’s IP that they can do as they please with.
Garry’s Mod has been around since 2006. The game that inspired people to make their own weird and wonderful creations has had thousands and thousands of workshop items made for it since its release, from in-game games like Prop Hunt to porting weapons, characters and skins from hundreds of different IPs. For the creators of Garry’s Mod objects, there’s probably a concern that other publishers might follow Nintendo’s lead, but considering the game isn’t nearly at the height of its popularity anymore, it might go unnoticed.
