DMCA Notice for ARK's Pokemon Mod

Mods are nothing new to the PC crowd. For decades now, mods have been the best way to keep an old game fresh. It's why I had a lightsaber in my Elder Scrolls: Oblivion game. It's how fantastic games like Portal ended up with dozens of extra levels. Mods can do pretty much anything within a given game. That's why it's not surprising that Mystic Academy released a mod for ARK: Survival Evolved that replaced the dinosaurs with Pokemon. The only thing better than taming dinosaurs is taming Pokemon.



What's also not surprising is that they've already been hit with a notice of copyright infringement citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Right now, no one is clear who sent the notice. It could be a legitimate notice from the Pokemon Company. However, Mystic Academy actually believes that it comes from a rival who is working on their own Pokemon mod for the game.

Regardless of who sent it, DMCA notices are never a good sign. So maybe Pokemon in ARK just wasn't meant to be.