If you’re not selling it - we still get it. Copyright only exists to encourage new works, for us. It is only a monetary incentive. Are you done making money? Great - now let go.
Discovery, as part of its ongoing effort to stretch the definition of “entertainment company,” recently told a solo indie developer it would be “retiring” his 2016 dreamlike puzzle adventure game Small Radios Big Televisions from the Steam and PlayStation stores.
The developer, in response, has made it free to download for PC, giving us a rare chance to actually experience the thing that a giga-corp has determined to be not worth your time, before it is wiped from the archives.
In a thread on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, Owen Deery, a self-described “small Canadian game developer” who works as Fire Face, provided a few details in replies.
Otherwise, you could purchase the hard-synth soundtrack as a show of support, which in this author’s opinion is very good music for working or feeling a combination of nostalgia and magnetic dissolution at the same time.
The firm killed the fully produced Batgirl and a Scooby-Doo film prior to release as a reported tax strategy.
WBD most recently dropped a head-scratching attempt at a merger with similarly debt-laden firm Paramount, while also initiating a 2024 crackdown on password sharing.
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From the top comment under the article, a former dev at Adult Swim games reached out to WB to request their game to be transferred to them, and WB declined their request.
I’m just baffled. First, those games are finished, not in development. What is the cost of leaving a game up for sale in a digital store that has no need for inventory management? Second, what is the reason for not agreeing to transfer the ownership to its original creators, and rather let it die?
This, and the recent announcement of the closure of RoosterTeeth, what other idiotic decisions are they going to make to screw over their fans?
Edit: Jesus, they pulled Westworld off HBO max as well? For tax breaks?
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Copyright means you alone get to sell it to us.
If you’re not selling it - we still get it. Copyright only exists to encourage new works, for us. It is only a monetary incentive. Are you done making money? Great - now let go.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Discovery, as part of its ongoing effort to stretch the definition of “entertainment company,” recently told a solo indie developer it would be “retiring” his 2016 dreamlike puzzle adventure game Small Radios Big Televisions from the Steam and PlayStation stores.
The developer, in response, has made it free to download for PC, giving us a rare chance to actually experience the thing that a giga-corp has determined to be not worth your time, before it is wiped from the archives.
In a thread on X (formerly Twitter) Tuesday, Owen Deery, a self-described “small Canadian game developer” who works as Fire Face, provided a few details in replies.
Otherwise, you could purchase the hard-synth soundtrack as a show of support, which in this author’s opinion is very good music for working or feeling a combination of nostalgia and magnetic dissolution at the same time.
The firm killed the fully produced Batgirl and a Scooby-Doo film prior to release as a reported tax strategy.
WBD most recently dropped a head-scratching attempt at a merger with similarly debt-laden firm Paramount, while also initiating a 2024 crackdown on password sharing.
The original article contains 796 words, the summary contains 186 words. Saved 77%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
From the top comment under the article, a former dev at Adult Swim games reached out to WB to request their game to be transferred to them, and WB declined their request.
I’m just baffled. First, those games are finished, not in development. What is the cost of leaving a game up for sale in a digital store that has no need for inventory management? Second, what is the reason for not agreeing to transfer the ownership to its original creators, and rather let it die?
This, and the recent announcement of the closure of RoosterTeeth, what other idiotic decisions are they going to make to screw over their fans?
Edit: Jesus, they pulled Westworld off HBO max as well? For tax breaks?
man fuck WB Discovery
WB got my friend in Germany a ridiculous fine for seeding dune for two minutes
They just killed funhaus (via killing rooster teeth)
They also did other heinous shit I’m too drowsy to remember, but trust me it was bad