Nintendo’s draconian rigor has been matched by Sony’s, as this is the first time they’ve tried to take legal action against Bloodborne!

Last time we reported that the 60 FPS patch for Bloodborne would not be available to users, so they had it removed from the internet with a DMCA claim. Now, Bloodborne fan Lilith Walther is facing the same thing. She created Nightmare Kart (originally Bloodborne Kart, but Sony was against it), which will be expanded to include sniper rifles… but it wasn’t that Sony was against, it was the PS1 visuals project 2021 that the company didn’t like.

On Bluesky, Walther wrote that she has evidence that a company called MarkScan is working for Sony, as the company removed a video promoting BloodbornePSX from YouTube. She added that the lawsuit was not against the video, but against the link in the description. In response, Walther removed the link and added that he would no longer make the fan game available for download. This was probably because MarkScan had also demanded the removal of the link on the BloodbornePSX Itch.io page, claiming that copyright infringement had occurred and that Walther was therefore committing digital piracy, according to the company.

MarkScan’s approach seems very strict, especially considering that Sony was more lenient with Bloodborne Kart (after a little redesign, the company didn’t interfere). We’ve only really seen such a strict stance from Nintendo, but Capcom, for example, has been very positive so far: Street Fighter X Mega Man started as a fan game, but the Japanese company stood behind it as a backer, and Capcom itself released Seow Zong Hui’s project as a free download for PC on December 17, 2012, Mega Man’s (and Street Fighter’s!) 25th birthday.

Maybe Sony should do something official with Bloodborne. The 60 FPS Bloodborne patch was also taken offline by MarkScan back in the day…

Source: PCGamer