I haven’t forked over any $$ to Activision in over a decade, I see no reason to ever change my stance.
I don’t feel like I’m missing out either, I simply cannot understand why this franchise ever got as popular as it is, let alone why it remains so popular today. A fool and his money…
I haven’t bought a video game in years. It’s just been garbage after garbage. The market is saturated with so much shit that I don’t even care to play games anymore.
I mean, some of the best games of all time (imo) have released in the last 3 years. Not sure what you’re on about with all games being garbage nowadays
Sorry, when I say good games I mean games that I find to be good. There have been games that are popular that I have no interest in. I also find games to be too expensive.
I feel sorry for the goobers who bought this game before the mod was released. Sad thing is that activision could do this themselves but then they couldn’t gouge gen Zers with micro transactions so they won’t
Is someone well versed enough in law to explain why Activision can do this? If the mod requires the software to be purchased and only uses resources present in the owned game - wouldn’t that be fair to use, so long as it’s not sold? Or is this just a case of Activision has the big stick and a small dev team knows they have no shot in fighting Activision’s lawyers without going broke?
Fair use is determined in a court. If somebody sues you, you can’t just say “Nah actually it’s fair use” and then not show up to court.
The C&D letter wasn’t a lawsuit yet, but a warning that one would be coming. The mod team had the choice of complying or going to court, which costs time and money. In court, even if they ended up winning, it’s not guaranteed that the dev team would be granted legal fees. Atop that, who wants to spend the next few months to years stressing on a court fight?
It’s an unfortunately lopsided situation where a C&D is enough to make most small time projects fold at the prospect of even having to go to court.
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Activision cementing that they are the only ones who can release the same game every year.
Literally just sat and benefitted from the hype to get some sales, then shat all over everything right before people actually start having fun.
Nevermind that if it went live, likely would have meant even more sales.
I really hope those people will refund the game. Won’t hurt Activision much, but every bit counts
I haven’t forked over any $$ to Activision in over a decade, I see no reason to ever change my stance. I don’t feel like I’m missing out either, I simply cannot understand why this franchise ever got as popular as it is, let alone why it remains so popular today. A fool and his money…
I haven’t bought a video game in years. It’s just been garbage after garbage. The market is saturated with so much shit that I don’t even care to play games anymore.
If you don’t play games why are you in this community? What do you think your perspective adds to this conversation?
It’s not that I don’t play games
I mean, some of the best games of all time (imo) have released in the last 3 years. Not sure what you’re on about with all games being garbage nowadays
Sorry, when I say good games I mean games that I find to be good. There have been games that are popular that I have no interest in. I also find games to be too expensive.
Try some unpopular games.
Actually RDR2 came out nearly 6 years ago.
really re-enforcing the fact that I will never buy a COD game again. It’s not like they used to be and it looks like it’s intentional at this point.
IW4x exists if you want to mod the original MW2 with dedicated servers, been meaning to try it for a while so can’t comment on its popularity
Alterware Is the updated build of iW4x you can still download.
Works for either Steam or old iW4x builds if you still got the files laying around.
Just letting people know the files for the mod got leaked and some people are working on reviving it already.
There was a discord giving out the leaked build but it got shut down but over 1000 people are currently playing it.
I feel sorry for the goobers who bought this game before the mod was released. Sad thing is that activision could do this themselves but then they couldn’t gouge gen Zers with micro transactions so they won’t
Is someone well versed enough in law to explain why Activision can do this? If the mod requires the software to be purchased and only uses resources present in the owned game - wouldn’t that be fair to use, so long as it’s not sold? Or is this just a case of Activision has the big stick and a small dev team knows they have no shot in fighting Activision’s lawyers without going broke?
Fair use is determined in a court. If somebody sues you, you can’t just say “Nah actually it’s fair use” and then not show up to court.
The C&D letter wasn’t a lawsuit yet, but a warning that one would be coming. The mod team had the choice of complying or going to court, which costs time and money. In court, even if they ended up winning, it’s not guaranteed that the dev team would be granted legal fees. Atop that, who wants to spend the next few months to years stressing on a court fight?
It’s an unfortunately lopsided situation where a C&D is enough to make most small time projects fold at the prospect of even having to go to court.
Thank you, makes perfect sense.