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Cyberpunk 2077 VR Modder Hit by Another DMCA Strike, Pauses Patreon, Pulls Access to All His Mods, and Declares He's 'Under Attack' (www.ign.com)

submitted 4 days ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

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Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world -5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

In a considerably more ideal world than the one we live in, all games, not just mods, would be free and everyone could just donate to developers of games they found worth the money.

It'll probably take a long time for that world to materialize, since it'd require all corporations and billionaires to disappear forever first.

In the meantime, either make free mods with an option to donate, or make your own games. Personally I think it's a waste of time and effort to spend so much of your life on mods for AAA games. I could understand if it was just for fun, but this guy seems to treat this way more seriously.

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

it wasn't a waste of time and effort because he got paid a living wage doing it at least until now though.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’ll probably take a long time for that world to materialize, since it’d require all corporations and billionaires to disappear forever first.

It'd require universal basic income first because game devs would have to work unpaid and may only make some money if they're lucky. We know from open source software that 99% of people don't donate shit.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, yeah. Maybe not exactly UBI, but my 'considerably more ideal' scenario assumes we don't have to spend most of our lives just to make a living.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 3 days ago

In a considerably more ideal world than the one we live in, all games, not just mods, would be free and everyone could just donate to developers of games they found worth the money.

Great idea so now corporations are going to think they can get away with not paying me as well because I should just donate my labour. It's a nice idea but it doesn't work unless we have robots to do all the work, and then of course I still wouldn't have any money in that scenario so the government would have to give me some. And I just know people would start complaining about freeloaders.