kanayachii

it's just the same as "Private Servers" in ragnarok , gravity tends to hunt them down backthen , but nowadays private server seems just fine everywhere , but they're still in they grey area . the safest route of not getting tackled is , taking "donations" by paypal etc , by law you can't be sued by "profittable law" even if u copied other's content if u just use "donations" system instead of "item mall" or in game money currency , which im pretty sure , that is what these two pokemon games u said are doing right now , with this , you guys are still in the grey area . but safer

i've been developing some games myself , there's no way any developer / content maker can sue you for anything that's non profit , logical comparison is like : if you ain't putting any ads in your youtube videos , you can freely use anyone's video as long as your videos ain't against youtube rules . but if by any chance they know that you're making profit with it , then yes , they can sue you easily