This has actually been up for months. Neither this nor Mega Man Maker has gotten taken down by Capcom (yet). It tends to be Nintendo who brings the hammer down swiftest and hardest.
I agree, homages that don't make use of others' IP are better; for example, something like Retro City Rampage is much more interesting than if it just remained Grand Theft Nintendo.
Maybe some people don't have that kind of creativity, but I also think the C&Ds and sudden takedowns still feel like a bit of a jerk move. If they're not going to be laissez-faire with fan games and/or encourage them and/or hire the developers to make an officially sanctioned fan game like with Sonic Mania, then there's got to be a nicer way to tell them to stop using their IPs, and encourage them to come up with their own characters and settings, rather than abruptly pull the plug on it completely.
Hell, some of these companies (looking at you Nintendo) could probably afford to buy these people off by writing them a check to fund the design of new non-derivative assets (though this would never happen, since it would inevitably also lead to people abusing the system by starting fan game projects just to get noticed and paid off by the IP holders).
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