A mod providing VR support for Cyberpunk 2077 is no more, after CD Projekt issued a takedown notice they claim hinged on them not being happy that the mod’s creator had stuck it behind a paywall. In response, modder Luke Ross has accused the company of being all about making money.
No shit, Sherlock 🙄
Lol, they’re all about money because they want people to pay them for their work? Maybe if he was giving away his shit for free I’d take him more seriously.
Honestly, it’s probably possible to make a non-infringing mod. Like, CD Projekt Red doesn’t have the right to stop people from making mods, just to prevent people from using their IP to do so. But you’d need to structure the mod to avoid using infringing assets.
A lot of the time, I think that people are just crazy to put so much work into work related to commercial games that are likely to get taken down. Like, okay, I get it. I like Metroid too. But I would never, ever put the kind of work in that’d be required to create a “third party Metroid game”, because Nintendo is going to come after you. I mean, you could just make a similar Metroidvania-genre game without it being specifically Metroid and all your problems would go away.
Now, that’s probably not the situation for a VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077. That’s a particularly graphically-elaborate game with hugely-expensive assets and an individual or two cannot make something comparable. They can maybe add VR support to it.
But I’m still amazed that people are willing to commit this kind of work to any sort of proprietary IP where they are at real risk of being shut down. Like, if you took a tenth of a percent of the labor of people who have done a mod for a proprietary game and stuck them in a room, you could probably get a pretty amazing open game. And you could do whatever you wanted with it, redistribute it however you want, etc.
