The creator of the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod CD Projekt recently hit with a DMCA strike has paused his Patreon page and pulled access to all his mods after receiving another strike from a different publisher.
Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.
If you want to make money for your effort, Dev a game. The idea that you should be able to piggyback off the work of another dev team and profit from it is BS. It’s like saying you should be allowed to walk into Starbucks and start selling custom mugs to their active customers; no way they would allow that
You people live in a fantasy world, how the does one who can’t make a game make a game. That’s a lot of work, what is the issue with piggybacking from another ones work if it benefits both parties.
Give me a scenario where it hurts the original developers, a real scenario.
I don’t really care about the developers tbh, what I care about is the community, and paid mods hurt the community. Well-received mods have always been thanked by donations, and there’s nothing stopping that system from continuing today, but the idea of monetizing the community sandbox is toxic and should be wholly rejected.
In what way was it good for the community when they removed the mods that you had to pay for? It’s not like the developers of the mods will do it for free, and no is stopping you from making a free version of said mods.
How is wanting to get paid and loving the game mutual exclusive. They are more part of the community than 99% of the community, you make it sound like it’s easy, they have invested their own time and skills to make mods that people are willing to pay for.
Stop being so judgemental, you don’t know them or why they are developing mods. Maybe they want to make a living or extra money by working on something they like. You don’t have to buy the mods they develop if you don’t like paying for mods or if it goes against your own principals. They aren’t trying to force you to buy their mods. I myself never play games with mods, because it’s a hassle and doesn’t make my gaming experience any better.
Maybe they want to make a living or extra money by working on something they like.
Exactly the problem. I don’t want my hobby spaces to be filled with entrepreneurs looking for a revenue stream, I want them filled with people who love the hobby enough to sacrifice for it. And when those spaces do get filled with money-makers, it pushes the people with the actual passion out because they aren’t interested in competing in another fucking competitive capitalist space.
You want everyone else to make sacrifices but not you, you just want shit for free. What competition exists in the modding community? No one is stopping you from or anyone else from making a VR mod for cyberpunk for free. Surely it would be more popular than the paid version, but why doesn’t it exist? Because it requires maintenance and active development and knowledge about how VR works, and no one is interested in spending that time making a free VR mod for cyberpunk, you would have to be an autists to feel it’s time worth spending.
If you can’t see how paid mods have already enormously increased toxicity in the modding scene, you’re either blind or ignorant. And people will always make things they love for free. Graffiti will always exist. There’s no reason to pretend art will only exist for the profit motive, or that it is better for it.
Why? If I’m a mechanic and upgrade a car that someone else made you wouldn’t care at all. I’ve always thought it was crazy that people act so entitled to software being free.
Hell cyberpunk itself wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for decades of work by Windows and console devs. Everything is built on top of someone else’s work so I don’t buy that as a reason for modders to go uncompensated.
If you want to make money for your effort, Dev a game. The idea that you should be able to piggyback off the work of another dev team and profit from it is BS. It’s like saying you should be allowed to walk into Starbucks and start selling custom mugs to their active customers; no way they would allow that
You people live in a fantasy world, how the does one who can’t make a game make a game. That’s a lot of work, what is the issue with piggybacking from another ones work if it benefits both parties.
Give me a scenario where it hurts the original developers, a real scenario.
I don’t really care about the developers tbh, what I care about is the community, and paid mods hurt the community. Well-received mods have always been thanked by donations, and there’s nothing stopping that system from continuing today, but the idea of monetizing the community sandbox is toxic and should be wholly rejected.
In what way was it good for the community when they removed the mods that you had to pay for? It’s not like the developers of the mods will do it for free, and no is stopping you from making a free version of said mods.
If they won’t do it for the love of the game, then they aren’t part of the community.
How is wanting to get paid and loving the game mutual exclusive. They are more part of the community than 99% of the community, you make it sound like it’s easy, they have invested their own time and skills to make mods that people are willing to pay for.
Stop being so judgemental, you don’t know them or why they are developing mods. Maybe they want to make a living or extra money by working on something they like. You don’t have to buy the mods they develop if you don’t like paying for mods or if it goes against your own principals. They aren’t trying to force you to buy their mods. I myself never play games with mods, because it’s a hassle and doesn’t make my gaming experience any better.
Exactly the problem. I don’t want my hobby spaces to be filled with entrepreneurs looking for a revenue stream, I want them filled with people who love the hobby enough to sacrifice for it. And when those spaces do get filled with money-makers, it pushes the people with the actual passion out because they aren’t interested in competing in another fucking competitive capitalist space.
You want everyone else to make sacrifices but not you, you just want shit for free. What competition exists in the modding community? No one is stopping you from or anyone else from making a VR mod for cyberpunk for free. Surely it would be more popular than the paid version, but why doesn’t it exist? Because it requires maintenance and active development and knowledge about how VR works, and no one is interested in spending that time making a free VR mod for cyberpunk, you would have to be an autists to feel it’s time worth spending.
If you can’t see how paid mods have already enormously increased toxicity in the modding scene, you’re either blind or ignorant. And people will always make things they love for free. Graffiti will always exist. There’s no reason to pretend art will only exist for the profit motive, or that it is better for it.
Why? If I’m a mechanic and upgrade a car that someone else made you wouldn’t care at all. I’ve always thought it was crazy that people act so entitled to software being free.
Hell cyberpunk itself wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for decades of work by Windows and console devs. Everything is built on top of someone else’s work so I don’t buy that as a reason for modders to go uncompensated.