Some people are not convinced it was really Nintendo that did that, some say it was a hoax.
Apology for thread necro, but was updating the Compendium and replying to this has been on the to-do list for ages. I'd wanted to post more about this here back when it happened, but every single thread on the subject was immediately locked.
We kept the original PDF C&D letter as e-mailed to us, but are reluctant to share it as:
- It has the real names of the principal developers in it, including our physical addresses in May 2009
- The metadata in the PDF shows the author, who was one of Square's attorneys at the time as verified on LinkedIn
I've uploaded it as it still looks sitting in my inbox
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It's impossible to share more without revealing personal information, or putting the poor attorney (who's probably a fan of the game, RPGs, and Square in general) at risk of being doxxed. I hang out at TCRF/Hidden Palace pretty heavily these days and if someone wants an attestation from a neutral, trusted party seeing the original (like drx or someone who can be trusted to keep it confidential), I'm easy to find on those Discords. We've shared it with members of the press before, the last time being for this article:
https://the-magazine.org/23/the-everending-story#.X1heCu17kuW -- which we're comfortable doing since there are usually journalistic standards at work.