It’s all fun and games until you try to make money from someone else’s IP
Just look at the mac address then
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Unfortunately our copyright system mandates that copyright owners must defend their IP from infringement, and making money off of an early access mod that revolves around copyrighted materials you don’t own is definitely infringement.
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No lies detected
who was trying to make money
From the article:
That said, it’s worth pointing out that, while a fully free version was in the books, Bully Online had a paid early access release that may have drawn scrutiny from the IP holder’s lawyers.
This wasn’t like the GTA online mods. You couldn’t host your own server and had to pay for access to theirs. They never said rockstar forced them to take it down either from what I have seen, it might be they just decided they weren’t making enough money.
Building on a fountain of legal quicksand. Modders should completely avoid rockstar, Bethesda, and any other greedy corp.
It’s not the modding that’s the issue. It’s the fact that they were selling it.
You can only sell mods in their authorized mod stores. I don’t know if Rockstar has one.
Honestly modding and fan games are becoming such lawsuit traps idk why anyone even bothers anymore instead of just making an original game. At least that way you own the Ip and can distribute it however you want.
Make the next big Mario style game instead of a Mario fan game that is never going to have anyone play it thanks to Nintendos lawyers.
That Mario Sunshine total conversion should have been its own thing.
Take Rollin’ Rascal; it’s an indie game that plays almost exactly like Sonic and you even have a ball form. But everything is legally distinct, and it’s a super fun game. There’s a mechanic for “taking over” different robot enemies so you can use their powers on others or the environment to unlock secrets and shortcuts. The company that’s making it previously worked on (I think) a couple Sonic games, and I believe they’re working on a port of Mother 3 as well.
Edit: there’s a demo that they keep updating with cool new features, and there’s a multiplayer mode with races and different tracks. You can also customize your “rascal” with different colors and outfits. All free and incredibly fun.
You literally have no idea what you’re talking about
Back at ya
“I know you are but what am I?”
Dude, get better material.
I pointed out that you don’t know what you’re talking about because the modding group in the article were requiring payment for access. That’s why they got shut down.
And Bethesda going after modding? They’ve encouraged modding for decades and most of their devs started out in that space. You’re going full tin hat here for no reason
