Line #14 Trivia/MyLittlePonyFightingIsMagic


1	* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/LaurenFaust herself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR81xtj2w_U has stated]] (skip to 5:55) that she's hyped for the game.
2	** Not as [[BuffySpeak goddy]] as above, but Jayson Thiessen, the director of the show (and the guy behind the famous felt scene in A Friend in Deed), has stated in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVmFtyV_5eU&feature=g-u-u this interview]] (at the end specifically) that he's hyped for it as well.
3	** [[ScrewedByTheLawyers A shame the higher ups think otherwise.]]
4	** [[VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds And then Lauren Faust officially joined the development team.]]
5	* ContentLeak: A beta build of the game was leaked online after a closed testing period. This build was nominated for EVO 2013's charity auction, at which point Hasbro's legal department were forced to step in and [=CnD=] the game to protect their IP.
6	* EveryoneHasStandards: A meta example when it comes to the game's pre-DMCA reception: There are parasprites (people who vehemently hate ''Friendship is Magic'') that showed full support to [=Mane6=] because, in their words, "a good game is a good game."
7	* HilariousInHindsight: This isn't the only time Pinkie [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 weaponizes the Party Cannon.]]
8	** The way she hugs Rainbow Dash, unintentionally crushing her, in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E7WonderboltsAcademy Wonderbolts Academy]] is very similar to her Level 3 Super here as well.
9	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Despite the game being forced by Hasbro to be "cancelled" (resulting in a SpiritualSuccessor), there are no fewer than 60 different versions of this game available. As of February 2019 it's still very much in active development. Current development seems to be focused around Fighting is Magic Aurora. This version is very complete and playable, and current updates are focused on polishing. It takes all of 10 seconds of searching on Google to find a bunch of different versions of it. It takes longer to decide which version you want to download than it does to find. That being said, it is ''not'' being developed by Mane 6, so all continuations are done by the fans.
10	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Much to ''many'' fans dismay. And they were so close finishing it, too.
11	* TrollingCreator: Jay Wright, one of the four main developers, has had a bit of history of trolling the fans anxiously waiting for the game on the main page and on other sites like Shoryuken. For instance, he said in response to an eager fan that the next bite-sized update will have "4 times as much Rainbow Dash" as the last one. [[spoiler: Four times zero is still zero.]]
12	* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The developers' internal QA-testing program was cancelled after one of the testers leaked an early build of the game to the public. Production of Bite-Size Updates were also halted temporarily, mostly because the next few down the line would only reveal things anyone who had played the leaked build would already know about. Not quite as harsh as most examples, as the devs' general response to the problem was "we're disappointed, but we know not all of you are like that and we can't stop anyone from playing the leaked build if they want to".
13	** The program had not exactly been cancelled (at that time) as by standard developer convention forces the devs to scrap the old testing program and create a new one, with none of the testers from the old program being translated to the new one. Granted, the leak will definitely delay the progress of the game as the devs' attention is turned towards building the new testing program.
14	** The entire project was canned because [[HoistByHisOwnPetard someone decided to enter it into EVO's charity auction in 2013]]. This unfortunately caught Hasbro's attention in a way that cannot be [[LoopholeAbuse openly]] overlooked like with other projects and they decided to respond with a [[ScrewedByTheLawyers Cease and Desist]].
15	** While it has had to abandon the [[Creator/{{Hasbro}} Hasbro]]-owned franchise and characters, the game itself is still alive, now with an all-new cast of Lauren-Faust-designed characters. Meanwhile, for those only interested by the ponies, some bronies modded a leak of the original game with the intent of completing it.

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