Hasbro is producing their own My Little Pony stuff, while Capcom is letting Mega Man gather dust. If anything, Hasbro is the company who cares here, if not always in the way we’d like.

So true.

@ZeroSpawn47  
Technically, based on the tweets from EU and USA, they want the fans to support it.  
They love this because the Megaman brand can be kept alive and milked when they come out with another MegaPokeman game franchise, without having to do anything, because of all the fan games keeping it alive in the interim. It’s basically effortless advertising.

My God, the level of samefag in this thread is off the charts!

You are in a bad place when Capcom is better than you at fan supporting.

LOL Hasbro hates Bronies just sayian.

When you’re making Capcom look good, you’ve got a problem.

Game with two fighting-themed games crossed is supported by their creator.
 
Game where characters who represent caring and friendship brutally kick each others’ plots is not supported by their creator.
 
The difference must be that Hasbro hates us.

Don’t fucking hold up Capcom as an example of something positive. Just fucking don’t.

capcom doesn’t support megaman

Oh boy. The Get-Over-Itites are at it again.
 
Please, for the love of god. Grow up.

It’s real simple that the hype surrounding the game was what caused the C&D to happen. If this stayed underground, this wouldn’t have been as bad.

Hasbro is brain-hurted

The difference here is, despite some of the BS Capcom pulls, Capcom is a video game company. Hasbro is a toy company. There’s a difference in perspective.

@DudeManGuy  
This pretty much could have all been avoided if Mane 6 had avoided EVO and their charity drive. The moment money entered the equation, all bets were off.

@DudeManGuy  
Isn’t most of the reason we have the characters we do is because of loss of copyright? I know Firefly had to be changed to Rainbow Dash, but that’s all I know.

@Enkidu  
Though considering Hasbro is intimately familiar with the idea of losing their copyright because they failed to use or enforce it, I can understand why they’d be more paranoid about it than other companies. Just think of how many Transformers and older MLP characters’ names and sometimes appearances they no longer have the rights to because they went too long without using them.
 
Also, even though the money all went to charity and it was disqualified from actually being in Evo, the fact that the game attracted all of this money and made it so close to getting into a rather well-known gaming tournament where winners would be competing for monetary prizes, it is again understandable that they’d be worried about maintaining their copyright.

@Background Pony  
Well whether it qualifies for fair use is dependant on several factors, but my point is that fan made products are usually protected as they basically don’t harm Hasbro in any way.

@Enkidu  
Not exactly. Even if the game isn’t being sold for profit, it doesn’t qualify for fair use.
 
Fair Use mainly applies to parody, educational, or criticism. Just because they have a disclaimer and aren’t selling the game, doesn’t mean it isn’t infringement.

Oh come on guys. Hasbro doesn’t hate us. They’re just a little focused on marketing at the moment, that’s all. Tara Strong once even said there are bronies at Hasbro, called Hasbronies. All this is just legal stuff. There’s even still the possibility of a compromise.

@Background Pony  
Fan made products aren’t illegal, they fall under an exception called “fair use”.

Simple question: Why hasn’t Hasbro sent a C&D letter here having their trademark “illegally” posted and to all the artists who are “illegally” drawing their trademark and displaying or providing their work for free?

Hasbro want fandom to die

Hasbro has every right to do this, bronies are just entitled.

I don’t know much on the subject, but from what I got it was Hasbro’s lawyers, not Hasbro themselves.