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Fan-Made Digital Lorcana Client Pixelborn To Shut Down After Disney Claim

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joe Parlock

Published May 29, 2024

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Pixelborn, a fan-made digital client for Lorcana, will be shutting down due to an alleged intellectual property rights infringement claim by Disney.
Developer Pavel Kolev announced the closure, stating he would not grasp at technicalities regarding the shutdown of Pixelborn.
This closure is a massive loss for the Lorcana community, as Pixelborn provided statistical information and was used for tournaments.

Popular digital Lorcana client Pixelborn will be shutting do👍wn next month, fol🉐lowing an alleged claim of infringed property rights by Disney.

Pixelborn is a fan-made client that allows you to play Lorcana with a digital interface like 👍the likes of Magic:♌ The Gathering Arena and Pokemon TCG Live. However, as it is a fan-run service, all cards are free to use, and, technically, have to be modded into the game manually before they’re playable.

Despite this, in a message on the Pixelborn Discord server and , developer Pavel Kolev announced 🌠that he will be shutting down Pixelborn on June 16. According to Kolev, “Disney 🍨representatives” reasserted its rights over the Lorcana property.

Kolev has always been upfront about his decision to shut down the game should Disney finally bring down the sword. Last year in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an interview with TheGamer, he ✨said that “If Ravensburger has a problem with Pixelborn🐟, they don’t need to send lawyers or anything, they just need to ask me and I’ll shut it down immediately.”

In the announcement, he also says that he would “not grasp at technicalities”, referring to the fact that, without an external source of Lorcana cards to install into the game, Pixelborn is just a generic interface and not really a ‘game’ in its o💜wn right.

Even if it wasn’t impossible to see this coming from a mile off, the decision to shutter Pixelborn isn’t a p💮ainless one for Kolev. In the announcement, he says his “heart is shattered to pieces”, having “put everything i♏nto this project for the past year and a half”.

A Massive Loss For The Lorcana Community

Though there are still other ways to play Lorcana digitally, ranging from webcam play to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tabletop Simulator, this is a massive loss for the Lorcana community. Pixelborn was the closest thing to a feature-complete client, and was used for numerous tou🦩rnaments.

It also provided the community with invaluable statistical information on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:what decks are being played, especially in the early days of the game when in-person play was still picking up momentum. In fact, the level o𝓡f data Pixelborn collected on the game was a concern to Kolev, who said he “didn’t want to be an influencer of the life of the game in any way”, choosing to be careful of precisely what information was gleaned from Pixelborn games.

This popularity has led to a successful Patreon campaign which, after funding developmen꧒t costs and server maintenance, has also raised money for various charities, such as $5000 for Doctors Wi🦄thout Borders last October.

Ravensburger✅ and Disney have yet to c🧸omment on Pixelborn or its closure. Of course, while this move does float questions as to whether an official client is in the works, nothing has been announced at this time.