site owner Joe Merrick, The Pokémon Company International said: “We do not have any issues with fans/creators playing the games with Nuzlocke rules.”
As part of a viewer Q&A in a YouTube video posted last week, Ellis and Yang were asked if they’d ever tried a Nuzlocke run of the game. “We thought this would be a great idea for a Nintendo Minute video,” Ellis said. “So we pitched it to the Pokémon Company saying ‘hey, we would like to do a Nuzlocke run, what do you think’. They said ‘here’s what we think, BAM’,” punching his hand.Ellis explained: “They said ‘we consider this to be on the same level as using a hacked game, ROM hacks’. I was like, excuse me? This is the style of playing a game that everybody can buy, there’s no hacking.
The Pokémon Company may therefore have decided not to promote Nuzlocke runs on Nintendo Minute, in case viewers decided to look into them more and discovered unauthorised hacked games.Posting the company’s statement, Merrick added his own take, saying: “The fact is, no content creator has been dismissed from any programme for doing simple Nuzlockes and TPCi has worked with many who have done them.
I honest don’t think Kit are lying. It just maybe the Pokémon company didn’t understand that term.
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