Group announces fan remake. Group get cease and desist. Internet tells them they should have just dropped it one day out of the blue. A tale as old as time. Im sympathetic. But its idiotic to announce a fan remake of anything unless you have the written consent of the owners. (and even then its risky because they can always revoke those permissions at random)
In a new patent filed by Sony earlier this month, it was revealed that the tech titan plans to bring about a feature allowing users to cherry-pick exact moments from which they can replay a game. It’s a feature that would empower users to track back through a campaign and select a specific moment in time to change a decision, re-experience something epic, or recount their steps, without needing to replay entire chapters – or the whole game.
You can copyright loading auto saves?
Remember when they took handle X from it’s original user Gene X Hwang, who had it for years? The renamed him to @x12345678998765.
User names are taken as easily as they are given. They aren’t worth any price unless you have some memes to spread.
But hey. Claim as many names as you like now. Apparently you get to charge 50k to sell them to those with more money than sense.
You know what Todd? I don’t believe you. Just admit you fucked up by announcing it too early.
Specifically, the famous video game director was asked if he regrets announcing the next Elder Scrolls games so early, as it could take another four years before the game is actually released. “I have asked myself that a lot. I don’t know,” admitted Howard. “I probably would’ve announced it more casually.”
So its essentially modders are only uploading their mods to the steam workshop and the versions of the game without workshop support are up shit creek without a paddle.
I admit I’m kind of guilty of this with the mods that I create and publish for stellaris. I pretty much only publish them to steam although Im given the option to upload to the paradox launcher. Personally I’d prefer to only publish through the workshop since Im used to the system, and its an easy way to get feedback on my creatons, however I can see the benefits to the ecosystem as a whole by allowing anyone who has the game to get the same mods in a bespoke mod store.
Jim Sterling (while not everyones cup of tea) did a bunch of stuff on them. Eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRhYT5Lgp98
Do it. If people want to pay high prices for brand new video games, let them pay it. I’ll just do what I’ve always done; wait for a sale.