Nintendo Says No Livestreaming for Creators

Participants in Nintendo’s Creator Program will no longer be able to livestream gaming sessions on YouTube. Channels currently signed up to Nintendo’s revenue sharing program are entirely prohibited from livestreaming under the new rules, unless they choose to de-register the channel and register their videos individually. Separate channels by the same content producer are allowed however.

Hopefully this will not impact any Pokémon channels; Pokémon content is not managed by Nintendo under their program, but channels may be part of Nintendo’s program.

Definitely a step back for fans and creators alike! Thanks for the heads up My Nintendo News!

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  1. OK wtf Nintendo? Nintendo is great at making games, but when it comes to dealing with its communities and such it’s awful. Anyone that thinks restricting YouTubers from streaming their content is a good idea are out of their minds!! Nintendo has no sense…….

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  2. Uh really? What’s so wrong about streaming Nintendo games on Youtube that Nintendo won’t even allow people of their creator program to do that? This sure was a weird and odd decision on Nintendo’s part.

    But atleast they can still stream on Twitch so yay I guess

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  3. After the longest day of school in this year, that includes going to Tennis lessons in the other part of the city I knew nothing about, I found a bus that can get me home. It’s going to be a long, long ride…

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  4. Sitting in a bus, have a sh*t ton of stuff with me (backpack, a bag with my tennis outfit and a tennis racket) and someone always has to sit next to me making me uncomfortable as f*ck, even tho few steps from me there are like, 5 empty sits next to eachother. F*CK!

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  5. So confirmed

    Primarina
    Crabominable
    Alolan Marowak
    Alolan Exeggutor
    Alolan Dugtrio

    The last mon is unconfirmed so I maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay use Lycan

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  6. Alolan Johto Forms I’d like to see:
    Psychic -> Psychic/Dark Teddiursa line
    Water -> Water/Steel Phanphy line
    Fire/Steel Slugma
    Water/Steel Octilerry
    Poison/Steel Quilfish
    Psychic/Flying Hoothoot line
    Ghost/Flying Xatu
    Fire/Ghost, Grass/Fairy and Water/Dark for the starters
    and probably some more

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  7. I want a Water Teddiursa just so I could name it Sea Bear

    Also it can be tardigradey even though tardigrades ain’t actually bears

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  8. It really fucking bothers me that I can basically say any other damn cussword, but as soon as I say say “sh*t” and forget to bleep one of the letters, it suddenly needs to be approved by a mod.

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  9. I made these a while so but I found them in my phone’s notes and wanted to post them again because I really like them

    Sinnonion Roggenrola
    Rock/Fire

    Found in the Orenburg City mines.

    Sinnohnion Flabebe
    Grass/Fairy

    A multicolored flower version that used Gracedia flowers found in Flamora Town

    Sinnonion Ekans
    Grass/Dark

    A grass snake that’s a rare encounter in eterna forest

    Sinnonion Hoothoot

    Ice/Flying

    Found at the base of Mt.Coronet

    Sinnonion Magcargo

    Ground

    A muddy snail found in the Safari Zone

    Sinnonion Drampa

    Dragon/Psychic

    Guards the ruins in Celestic Town. Spawns once a week

    Alolan Chandelure

    Fire/Ice

    A snow globe with a fire inside found on route 217

    Sinnonion Darmanitan

    Psychic/Electric

    Uses its sleep form to convert sunlight into electricity to use in battle. Lives around Sunnyshore and is used by Volkner

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  10. A series of questions:
    1) Why do you think they brought back Anabel of all characters for the Ultra Beast plot line in SM? Was this game freak trying to make up for our outrage at no Battle Frontier in ORAS?
    2) Where do you think her and Looker will fit into the story of USUM, if at all? It seems the Ultra Beasts may actually have a role in the main plot this time around instead of the post game.
    3) Do you think Colress will actually be linked with Aether Foundation this time around? It seemed like an obvious association that they just didn’t make for some reason.

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  11. Remember the x and y reveal trailer that showed Xerneas in this beautiful forest?

    Remember looking at the Kalos map and pointing out how perfect it would be to find it in Laveer City?

    Now we know it’s in a boring lab…

    Why do X and Y even exist?

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      • They’re fantastic games that receive unnecessary hate imo
        I dislike the lack of BF and not utlising Zygarde in main story.
        Otherwise imo Kalos is the best region absolutely beautiful. The pokemon are great. And the game is well designed with the theme of beauty reflected everywhere..also mega evolution is cool and the characters are more than fine.
        Unjustified hate I tell you.

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        • Looking at a game critically takes the fun out of it. You’ll hate everything regardless of it being a good or bad thing.
          Why don’t you do what im doing, play to enioy and see what its all about its actually fun.

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          • That’s fine. We all have our own tastes.
            Atm im playing Y and I absolutely love it. The region, theme and mons etc
            Are they better than SM? BW era? Probably not but still v.good imo

          • That’s the biggest bullshit I’ve heard you ever say.

            Looking at at piece of art critically is important to understand its shortcomings and achievements. If you truly love something then you need to accept the problems with it. That’s what being critical about anything should be.

            Without art criticism we wouldn’t understand what makes great media great. So many movies, music, painting and games wouldn’t be nearly as good as they are.

            If you are going to blindly love something then you won’t ever truly appreciate anything creative. You won’t understand what makes games great or fun. How to make them better.

            Go ahead and pop that bubble yourself. You will have a better time with games when you can study them

    • X was my first game, and I liked it a lot. (Played it and Y numerous times). It had some flaws though. Mainly I think that the Regional Dex was too big (450). I had a hard time deciding what to use. And I still get lost in Lumiose City, and wanted a way to deselect the rollerskates.

      I don’t really play for the story because this is it: a guy loved his Floette so much that when it died he killed a bunch of other pokemon to bring it back to life and then it left him again and so he was going to destroy the whole world? It’s kind of poignant, but it’s a really dumb plan. Thank God he didn’t have a kid. And Team Flare was going to straight-up kill everyone who didn’t pay enough to be in their cult because…? Well, a 10 year old with some magic animals foiled that plan so it’s all good.

      Ranking the Pokemon games I’ve played: HeartGold, ORAS, SunMoon, XY, Platinum, LeafGreen, White. Hard to rank them though.

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  12. I thought to myself “why not have four rods named after the tiers of pokeballs”
    Than I remembered one would be called the master rod…

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  13. If something gets revealed to day it’s going to be forever before I find out… can’t use data in Europe without it costing a fortune and I’m goona be on a plane for most of today. And I’m getting there when it’s the morning…

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  14. This is just fantastic. How does Nintendo respond to the criticisms? By making it worse, of course!

    What exactly went through their heads…

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  15. Wasn’t there supposed to be some news today?

    (also, because I’m an idiot and don’t know how buses work, I basically was on a 2 hour long sightseeing tour of Warsaw to finally be picked up by my dad to get home. I’m such a looser)

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  16. So I get the Pokeflute station on the radio finally and go to Snorlax to catch it so I can continue moving on…Then it hits me….Why am I not sring for this like I plan to do for the legendary birbs? and thus I start my potentially very long journey to catch a shiny Snorlax………*sigh*

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  17. Just landed. I have 2 hours before my long flight to Paris

    I played Platinum the entire time. I best Maylene(Porygon Z is so good omg), got to Pastoria Town and evolved Gible into Gabite

    Also, shout out to Gabite for being of the only 3 stage pseudos with an awesome second evo. Non of that Shelgon or Pupitar shiit

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  18. Well, I’m working on a playthrough of Alpha Sapphire (first AS, did OR several times). As usual, trying new ‘mons, so I picked a Treecko instead of my usual Mudkip. I realized that I’ve used so many different ones already. Right now I have a Grovyle, a Vigoroth, and a Dustox that I unexpectedly love (Shield Dust is a great ability).

    I want to use a Tropius as more than an HM slave this time (Bananasaurus is one of the BEST HM slaves, so is Lanturn), and I’d like a Seviper too, but I don’t know what else. Oh! Latias is one of my favorites, so planning on using her.

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    • I like things like Linoone that can learn lots of HMs and also have a helpful ability like Pick Up.
      Treecko was my first Hoenn starter when my brother and I played it in Japanese on emulator. We also ended up with a Cascoon but I don’t remember getting very far as we couldn’t understand it.

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      • I’ve always had a Linoone with me. Swagzagoon, Broom, Bandida, and this time, Brush.

        Post or late game I’ve got it made with just 2:
        Braviary that knows Strength, Fly, Cut, Rock Smash
        Lanturn that knows Surf, Dive, Waterfall, Flash

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  19. Ugh… it takes way too long to access the pokemon center. Like the entire process is painfully slow. Lets hope they change it in Ultra Sun & Moon.

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  20. Now it is time to move onto Clair! I hope my team is ready for one of the most difficult gym leaders in the game.

    Badges: 7

    Typhlosion
    Wigglytuff
    Heracross
    Lanturn
    Jynx
    Donphan

    Typhlosion is level 39 while everyone else is level 38.

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  21. ALWAYS THE STUPIDEST TEAMMATES THEY NEVER DEFEND THE SPLAT ZONE AND GET PICKED OFF BY THE SAME SNIPER BECAUSE THEY STUPID JUMP IN THE SECOND THEY RESPAWN

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  22. The only problem with SRing for Snorlax is that you have to keep turning back on the flute music to get it to wake up. You can preset the station, but you gotta go into the app every time you reset……

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  23. Relating to the article, Why would they ever shut this down. It doesnt even seem beneficial to them to do that. Nintendo continues to make question decisions

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    • Prolly sold out by now. I went around to 3 stores earlier today and didn’t find any. Sounds like it’s a better situation than the nes was, but it’s still hard to find. People that preordered or went out early were able to get there’s more or less without much issues, but now there’s not many out there.

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    • There were like 100 consoles lying around in our local Media Markt, just picked one up without preorder. There was nobody there to fight over the console.

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  24. Blehhhhh my body is totally crashing, I feel like sleeping for a whole week….I mean there’s very little to be excited for next week
    I don’t think I’m gonna get the new M&L game because it looks watered down

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  25. So the more I think about the more I think I’ve figured out who my partner Pokemon would be if they were real. I’ve always thought of Sneasel as being my favorite Pokemon and for a while it really was, but I was never sure it would be my partner without a doubt. Now that I think about it tho there’s a Pokemon that I’ve always liked and was actually my first Pokemon in a game that I fully beat. That’s Typhlosion. I would count Pikachu as my “first” Pokemon, but I barely played Yellow when it first came out and at that point I wasn’t sure I fully liked it. Not many years later (just a little after GS came out) I played Silver to completion and while I can’t for the life of me remember who was on that team I can however remember that my starter was Cyndaquil. I’ll never forget that Cyndaquil that would eventually become a Typhlosion. I would then much later use Typhlosion in HG when it released back in 2010 and honestly I still really love the Pokemon line. All 3 in that evolution line have always been on the long list of my favorite Pokemon, but they’re also the only ones (except Sceptile which honestly has a similar story) that have a REALLY special part in my heart……..Whelp there it is hahaha

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    • Nice story, I love the Typhlosion line too. I would prefer their Shiny colours were closer to the Gen 2 ones they had now but nevermind.

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      • Thanks man. Yeah the brown shiny is weird on Typhlosion, but at the same time I have a hard time trying to figure out what it would look like in it’s original shiny colors now in 3d. Either way yeah I think I’m set on Typhlosion (and it’s line) as being my main fav Pokemon XP

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        • I think it’d be fine, maybe they’d have to keep the flames regular colour, though Shiny Rapidash has Grey Flames and Emboar has Blue so it should be OK.

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  26. Je suis a Paris! And I barely remember any French.

    Today is going to be a really long day because I didn’t get to sleep on the plane. I’m going to be dead omg. Super excited though!

    Seems we didn’t get any news. Weird..

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  28. Tomorrow is October 1. Still no Animal Crossing app. I hope my prediction is correct that we’ll get a Direct in November focused on the franchise. I can’t take any more of this dramatic tension.

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  29. Has anyone ever done a Nuzlocke? I did one in OmegaRuby a few years ago, and it ended in tragedy. I ended up with 6 badges, but was DESTROYED by Ace Trainer Jennifer’s Milotic (shortly after Winona’s gym).

    I have all the tragic details written down, and everyone is saved in Pokemon Bank (I couldn’t bear to release them). This is also the reason behind my grudge against Roselia. One killed Bloodsplash, my Magikarp shortly before she was going to evolve.

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  30. So I got together all the games I want to play this year

    Games To Play:

    Hollowknight
    Mario Odyssey
    Pokemon Ultra Moon
    Axiom Verge
    Persona 5
    SnipperClips
    Binding Of Issac
    Owl Boy

    Currently Playing:
    Pokemon Platinum

    2017… wow

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  31. Why are there so many great ‘mons in Hoenn? I can’t decide who to use. So far I have my Grovyle, my Dustox, and a Seviper who is a total badass. I have a Vigoroth who I’ll probably phase out.

    I know I want to use Tropius, and I’d like to use Latias (even though I’ve sort of used one before), but I may want to hold off on her bc there are so many I don’t like that I want to give a chance.

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  32. I was kinda hoping for some news, alolan mons to brighten up my day.
    I guess we wait till next week or 2 with corocoro or maybe they might surprise us with a random trailer

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  33. One thing I like about the older games vs the 3DS era games is the difficulty. I started with the 3DS games and was totally spoiled.

    But in Pokemon LeafGreen, Platinum, and HG, I had to really think about which pokemon got which TM because you got ONE or had to spend a lot of time at the casino, and if my Flareon was strong on attack but weak with special attack, then too bad: I had to spam Fire Blast and make it work. Also there was strategic leveling: if you evolved too early, sometimes you missed out on a great move. Even with the new Exp. Share off, it’s not too hard.

    Those things aren’t as big of a deal anymore, and it takes away from the experience a bit. I love Pokemon Refresh and Amie, and the 3DS era has done great things with breeding, especially in SunMoon (the judge thing in the box is the BEST, I used to take every single hatchling to the judge 5 at a time).

    Pros and cons. I love seeing my Pokemon pull through at the last second, whether it’s from luck or from “It withstood the attack didn’t want to make you sad.”

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      • Exactly. for a perfect example EXP. Until gen 6, EXP would be literally divided amongst pokemon if they came out in battle. It made training that much harder. Not only that EXP also depended heavily onthe level of your pokemon. Now Im not sure if this is a thing anymore, but I know the higher level your pokemon was the less EXP one would get. It would just get very tedious grinding. I know people hate the new EXP share, but it’s made grinding so much better.

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        • Only Gen V used that levelling system iirc, VI and VII went back to the old one

          Shame because imo that was the better system, gave GF a better control over your level but it was a nightmare for people who liked to be above the level curve they try to set

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          • Which one was a gen V only mechanic? I said two things.
            And you preferred the much slower EXP rate? I feel like its still in great control now. When I replay Y and when I played SM I almost felt right there.
            I feel like if I was underlleveled I didnt need to spend hours tryng to just level up too. Idk maybe its just me, but I like the EXP ‘buff’ they gave

          • Higher level than opponent = lower exp, lower level = higher exp is the one I’m on about as a Gen V alternative. I just preferred it because it was easier to see where GF wanted you to be imo (so less grinding for me, but others may still feel the need to grind) + it made grinding drastically lower levelled team mates easier

          • It didn’t give you less exp when you were higher leveled, it just boosted the amount when you were more or less equal or underlevelled. If you’re higher leveled any Pokémon at lower levels will feel like they hardly give exp since you need a lot more to level up.

  34. Anyone available to help me shift around 20 Pokemon between games? I can breed you something (non-shiny) or give you a Gold Bottle Cap as payment.

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      • It wasn’t hard. It required me to get up at 8.30, take the train to a friend of mine I was visiting anyway, just walk in the store 15 minutes after opening time, see a huge pile of 100+ consoles lying about, pick one up and pay MSRP.

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  35. Nothing at all from Milan huh… I didn’t expect much but I figured there would be something small but oh well. I think they’ve shown everything now besides maybe a couple of the other z-crystals/z-moves that they wanted to show before release.

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    • I like game reviews like these, because it’s not just saying what’s the game’s strong and weak points but it’s also very detailed on hoe the game is and stuff like that

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    • Halfway through the vid, and since I played Platinum for the first time just the other day, I want to say I don’t remember what Team Galactic wanted exactly. They blew up some stuff… and then Cyrus went to the distortion world… and? What were the grunts for if he was going to destroy the whole world?

      At least in Team Flare Lysandre made them pay like $5 million to join up and they presumably wouldn’t be wiped out.

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      • Cyrus wanted to create a world without emotion; he believed it to be a weakness of humanity that lead to strife and suffering. He thought getting rid of it would end fighting. And what’s great about platinum is that he actually sort of achieves his goal. He’s left to live in the distortion world, a world devoid of emotion.

        As for the grunts, they were just a means to an end. He needed them to distract and slow people down so he could make his real moves.

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        • Okay, that makes as much sense as any. Have fun in the distortion world, Cyrus: it looks hella boring and I’m not sure there’s any food in there.

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  36. So apparently, the SNES Mini uses the exact same motherboard as the NES Mini, and that’s why they stopped delivering the NES Mini for a while. They needed to convert all boards to SNES Mini to try and meet demand, and next year they can easily start producing both once peak demand has been met.

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  37. Just saw the Lego Ninjago Movie and it was great! I liked it a lot, it’s great as a movie on it’s own and really not that bad as an adaptation of the show. And I actually want to listen to the soundtrack, which I don’t usually do. Few complaints:
    -More screen time for ninjas that aren’t Lloyd would be nice
    -One of my favourite ships of all time, Jay and Nya, wasn’t there, at all
    -Should have more time after the cat puking garmadon out scene.
    But, the third argument could be fixes by a sequel. Or a tv show. wait…
    Yeah, but overall I liked it a lot! I’m waiting for a sequel.

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    • HIOW HOW CAN I GET SO MAN Y INCOMPETENT PLAYERS WE WE FOUR MEASLY POINTS AWAY AND THEY PULL IT OFF BECAUSE MY RETARDED TEAM LEAVE THE WHOLE PLACE UNGUARDED ARRGGGYIOMOIONIMOSG^N!@T@RM

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  38. I just have to say Aurora veil is the best thing to happen to Ice types. It actually made some good support moves for ice types. I wish more ice types learned it. Honestly Abomasnow should learn it.
    Aurora veil is the best thing when trying out a pokemon.
    Also. You dont know what true power is until to use Focus Punch Mega Heracross. It honestly feels SOOOOO amazing using it. Like you can feel all the power coming off the screen! Heracross is such an amazing mon. It might bypass Vikavolt as my favorite is this Focus punches keep happening. I got a CRIT Focus Punch. Like I think the other girl actually died from the impact because she did not make a single move for the rest of the game. GG World.

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  39. I need a game to keep myself entertained with for next week
    i was thinking of
    -Finishing the Ikana part of Majora’s Mask
    -Bowser’s Inside Story
    -maybe restart Minecraft
    -or something to keep my goldfish like attention span satisfied

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