Project M: Difference between revisions

Nintendo has not given an official response to ''Project M''; however, it is generally assumed that the company does not approve of the mod and its popularity. One policy Nintendo has taken has been issuing automatic bans for mentioning ''Project M'' by name on any of Nintendo's [[Miiverse]] channels, because it allegedly constitutes "criminal activity". This includes using the abbreviation "PM", which can result in [[wikipedia:Scunthorpe problem|erroneous bans]] when talking about other games or series with the same abbreviation (such as ''Paper Mario''), or when used for miscellaneous purposes (such as denoting the daily time-span between noon and midnight). Nintendo has been criticized by the Smash community for refusing to support Project M and the competitive PM community.

In October 2014, it was announced that ''Project M'' would be dropped from the lineup of [[Apex 2015]], with many qualifying tournaments also suspending their ''Project M'' events. While some qualifiers did feature ''Project M'' tournaments, no official online streams were available for such events apart from [[B.E.A.S.T 5]] which was stream on [[VGBootCamp]]; commentators on streams provided by VGBootCamp were also reportedly instructed to not mention ''Project M'' while on air. As Nintendo had previously begun involving itself with the competitive community, such as through the [[Super Smash Bros. Invitational]] at E3 and a video presentation from Nintendo of America's president [[Reggie Fils-Aimé]] at the conclusion of [[EVO 2014]], it was strongly suspected this was due to Nintendo being involved with the event. It was later announced in January 2015 that Apex had officially partnered with Nintendo for Apex 2015, giving credence to this theory. Since Apex 2015, many major tournaments, including the upcoming [[The Big House 5]], have dropped Project M from their game rosters, and VGBootCamp has stopped streaming PM content on their channel. The removal of Project M from tournaments has resulted in major backlash from the community, and has been suspected to be either due to direct intervention from Nintendo, or due to tournament officials' fears of encountering legal issues for featuring the game at their events.