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The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods (ghostarchive.org)

submitted 3 days ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 3 days ago

Freaking said it literally yesterday that they'd force it down, and literally yesterday someone said "there's no way no company has taken down a mod like that". Modders are well and good but they're people, and whether it was the modder directly or nexus, it was only a matter of time before Sony lawyers sent a cease and desist.

I blame the news outlets for making it public and screaming from the rooftops that they were bypassing it.

So anyone have a copy saved?

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 12 points 3 days ago

The author deleted it, not nexus.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 3 days ago

and whether it was the modder directly or nexus, it was only a matter of time before Sony lawyers sent a cease and desist.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

There are mods and alternate launchers that skip these things for pretty much every single player game that has launchers and sign-ins. This isn't a new concept.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 3 days ago

and it's not a new concept that it's begging corporations to threaten legal action for things they don't like

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

None of these mods get sued. You can calm down on the outrage.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 0 points 3 days ago

Lol dude I'm not outraged. I'm honestly very unsurprised by their actions. I'm annoyed that people are so shocked that it happened - literally a day after it made all the gaming blogs with headlines essentially saying "Look you can give the finger to Sony with this one little mod". Everyone laughed and said FU to Sony, and then the dev even said something stupid like "I promise never to take it down".

Then of course So ya lawyers came in and threatened the guy. Of course they did. I am zero percent shocked they did. So he had the choice of spending 6 figures fighting them in court, or take it down. I don't blame him at all. I eyeroll at everyone who so publicly flaunted it yesterday when it should have been a quiet passing around.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

I see what you're saying.
The Mass Effect dll mod went through the same thing. I still have the original download just in case it got removed.
And it did.
But it was only like a week or two before it was uploaded by the author again, and it's been up since.