Where does all that rage of yours comes from ? You pay for the time of the guy to package the shit. You don’t need to, you can yourself build the mod pack… time and convenience is a product in itself.
If missing turns into a paid industry then game companies will start cracking down on it, because then it becomes profit based on their work that they didn’t earn.
Whereas now when it’s free, it’s just passion projects by hobbyists who really like their game. It boosts their sales but it’s not like there’s extra money to be made in licensing deals.
If you allow what this guy was doing, you pervert that. It becomes an industry. It becomes competition. And it sets a legal precedent that if you let one guy get away with keeping all the money he makes, no one else needs to be held to that standard.
That’s even harder to understand than OP… how is retribution for someone’s time your problem ? Or even the game editor’s problem ?
It’s not like he’s infringing on any IP either since the editor is still selling the game to start with.
And if you are so spririted you can mod on your free time the same functionality can’t you so free it is for you…
You know that building on someone else’s work isn’t necessarily a bad thing right? Entire industries are doing « integration » work which is literally building on top of other’s work to achieve increased functionality. And that’s only in IT… and the legitimacy is very juridiction dependent as well so don’t bring legality into the debate too soon ;-)
Are you having ethical issues with the practice maybe? Do you believe you should get anything for free in software ?
Where does all that rage of yours comes from ? You pay for the time of the guy to package the shit. You don’t need to, you can yourself build the mod pack… time and convenience is a product in itself.
If missing turns into a paid industry then game companies will start cracking down on it, because then it becomes profit based on their work that they didn’t earn.
Whereas now when it’s free, it’s just passion projects by hobbyists who really like their game. It boosts their sales but it’s not like there’s extra money to be made in licensing deals.
If you allow what this guy was doing, you pervert that. It becomes an industry. It becomes competition. And it sets a legal precedent that if you let one guy get away with keeping all the money he makes, no one else needs to be held to that standard.
That’s even harder to understand than OP… how is retribution for someone’s time your problem ? Or even the game editor’s problem ?
It’s not like he’s infringing on any IP either since the editor is still selling the game to start with.
And if you are so spririted you can mod on your free time the same functionality can’t you so free it is for you…
You know that building on someone else’s work isn’t necessarily a bad thing right? Entire industries are doing « integration » work which is literally building on top of other’s work to achieve increased functionality. And that’s only in IT… and the legitimacy is very juridiction dependent as well so don’t bring legality into the debate too soon ;-)
Are you having ethical issues with the practice maybe? Do you believe you should get anything for free in software ?