Paid mods suck for everyone, but free mods (especially giant frameworks like the one Luke Ross was working on) suck mostly for the people who make them. Not just because of the unpaid labor, but also because the worst kind of people (entitled freeloaders) end up harassing them.
I don’t blame him for charging for his work, or choosing not to challenge CDPR in court
It’s a normal thing in other kinds of software like video editing and audio software as well. Sometimes entire companies spring up to create custom plugins for things like After Effects or one of the many DAW softwares. Then they sell them and sometimes even license them out. Maybe it just hasn’t caught on in gaming yet?
For every VR mod that gets used in Cyberpunk, the game also had to be sold.
CD Project Red got its money too.
They’re whining that someone added value to their product before they could, and want to sell it themselves.
So this just seems like monopolistic behaviour to me.
Tbh thats fair
Make it free, would be better
Charging for a mod is usually what causes studios to lawyer up
Paid mods suck for everyone, but free mods (especially giant frameworks like the one Luke Ross was working on) suck mostly for the people who make them. Not just because of the unpaid labor, but also because the worst kind of people (entitled freeloaders) end up harassing them.
I don’t blame him for charging for his work, or choosing not to challenge CDPR in court
It’s a normal thing in other kinds of software like video editing and audio software as well. Sometimes entire companies spring up to create custom plugins for things like After Effects or one of the many DAW softwares. Then they sell them and sometimes even license them out. Maybe it just hasn’t caught on in gaming yet?
And I hope it never does. I don’t want more capitalism in my hobbies than there is already.
For every VR mod that gets used in Cyberpunk, the game also had to be sold.
CD Project Red got its money too.
They’re whining that someone added value to their product before they could, and want to sell it themselves.
So this just seems like monopolistic behaviour to me.