 Saw the news about Valve doing a DMCA on Team Fortress: Source 2. I'll say the same thing I always say: stop putting thousands of hours into making things with someone else's IP. At some point they will nuke it, like Nintendo do all the time. Be original, be creative. 12 comments
People need to learn the difference between licensed works (like say Black Mesa), and people just using the IP of a big company however they want. It's *really* not that complicated. And this is entirely separate to open source reimplementations, that don't use the originals. Mods are one thing, porting the whole idea of the game with the name, assets and everything to now what is technically a very different game engine (s&box) is not the same lol.  @gamingonlinux Mods are just a way for game developers to explicilty allow it. Plenty of mods overhaul entire games to the point they're unrecognizeable. @gamingonlinux wasn’t Black Mesa a fan project that eventually got the go ahead from Valve? I don’t think it was licensed back when it was first released… @gamingonlinux @gamingonlinux Honestly I can 100% see why people do it @gamingonlinux People also need to remember that copyright law *requires* the copyright holder to defend themselves in the US. Edit: Been corrected on that, it's more nuanced for copyright. See replies :) @gamingonlinux There's plenty of creativity to be found in exploring things that already exist in sometimes slightly, and somtimes wildly different ways. True "originality" doesn't exist. |
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@gamingonlinux Yeah. Same. I do wish more game companies were welcoming of fan works, but it is what it is.