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CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it made a modder take down their Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod [VR Injection Framework: +100 games supported] because they were charging money for it [Patreon subscribers] (www.gamespot.com)
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[โ€“] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The current situation is a lose-lose for both sides. The options that I can see are either an agreement for donation based payment with support from the publisher or CDPR just "buying"/"hiring" the mod and the support behind it. Other than that I don't see any way that a precedent for a commercial product based on a game mod works.

[โ€“] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, this would be setting precedent if it ever went to court, but it likely never will. He doesn't want to step on any toes. If they don't like being included in the suite, they can be removed. It's all-around easier and less risky. This is his job/livelihood, don't rock the boat that feeds you, or something.

Donations is not an option, this level of mod is not possible without it being his full time job. Anyone saying otherwise has not tried it. Amd any one company hiring him wojld mean all other games would need to be dropped from the suite. There is no other way for this to exist than how it does now. If he couldn't charge, it just wouldn't exist.

The problem mostly comes with calling it a "mod", that is barely a word that applies here. That's an entirely different scope from what this is.