The tag implication #34198 dragalia_lost -> nintendo has been rejected.

Reason: Dragalia Lost is a property of Nintendo. The wiki page even states, "Dragalia Lost is an action role-playing game developed and published by Nintendo".

EDIT: The tag implication dragalia_lost -> nintendo (forum #296721) has been rejected by @Millcore.

It's by Cygames. Dunno why the wiki says it was developed by Nintendo.

Yeah, it is developed by Cygames and I think the wiki should be updated. However it is published by Nintendo and is a Nintendo property,

Games are mainly tagged under developer, instead of the publisher.
Because many games have multiple publishers, and games published by <x> don't tend to have much in common, which isn't particularly useful for searches.

The nintendo tag should probably be kept for the core Nintendo franchises, to not dilute its usefulness.

genjar said:
Games are mainly tagged under developer, instead of the publisher.
Because many games have multiple publishers, and games published by <x> don't tend to have much in common, which isn't particularly useful for searches.

What about pokémon and kirby? those both imply nintendo despite most of the games in the series only being published by Nintendo. both Game Freak and HAL Labs are not Nintendo development teams and actually Nintendo-based studios only had a hand in developing one or two games for each series.

The ownership rights for pokemon is a bit messy since it blew up so unexpectedly, and the three companies with a vested interest (Nintendo, the publisher, Game Freak, the developer, and Creatures, a creature design support studio) created The Pokemon Company to manage the franchise. So the Pokemon franchise is under the control of The Pokemon Company, which is a joint venture between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. Also, Creatures is itself partly owned by Nintendo. So Nintendo does partly own Pokemon, but it's unclear who exactly owns what aspects of it.

More generally, among major publishers it's often the publisher that owns any new IPs they publish, rather than the developers. Some developers may have enough clout to hold on to new IPs they create in the face of a large publisher, but that's more an exception than the rule. According to the game's wikipedia entry, Dragalia Lost is a Nintendo IP, published by Nintendo, with Nintendo and Cygames collaboratively developing it.

The tag implication dragalia_lost -> nintendo (forum #296721) has been rejected by @Millcore.