„The initial release was limited to people willing to pay for it“
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Not only stupid in general but extremely stupid considering Rockstar already made it clear they don't like 3rd party mods when they were taking down GTA RP servers.
never attenpt to make money off any company whose trigger happy litigious. projects doa the moment you even have to consider it.
Probably should've asked for donations to support their passion projects or just casually have a donate button to the side. Gamers love supporting a good passion project. See: Stardew Valley and Hollow Knight for two easy examples given how many times people have bought extra copies because it's so good and it's so cheap and it'll be fun to play again on Switch/Xbox/PS/PC/Mobile/Demake/audiobook/choose your own adventure
Rockstar also kills off mods that are free. I don't even know how exactly I'm not a lawyer. The GTA V pcvr mod is one example
Yeah, fuck Rockstar. Such a shitty company. Don't pay for their games honestly.
Don't play their games. Pirating and playing ain't much better when they still get word of mouth and press for their games
as long as they keep making really good games I'll keep buying them and playing them. if they want to be dicks about their intellectual property, that's a bummer, but at least they're making good games
for the umpteenth time, quit making mods for games that are developed by asshats. Take Two/R* very clearly don't want a healthy community surrounding and supporting their games as evidenced by virtually every decision they make regarding community modding efforts, stop trying to give them one; spend your time making mods for better games. Or better still, go from modding games to creating them and you could develop your vision without the constraints of someone else's IP. But for the love of fuck stop giving time and effort to these people who will deliberately squander it.
You don’t understand. When you ask FOR MONEY, YOU are in the wrong. Bethesda obly tolerances this shit, since they are too illiterate to look further than Nexusmods.
Mods are legal, but they have to be free. Its already a grey area, having free mods along with patreon or other revenue generating sites.
no, you don't understand, as Take Two and R* quite happily also take down free mods.
this exchange is peak internet
I'll never get over how some people whiteknight for soulless corporations that not only don't give a fuck about them but actively hold them in contempt, yes, the internet is a silly place.
I wonder if it would have lasted longer if there was zero money being accepfed for it. And I wonder if the source code was shared so someone else in another country could work on it.
what would you even do in online bully? Roleplay as pretentious teenagers? Sounds even more cringe than GTA and Red Dead RP, which is difficult to accomplish.
And to clarify, I've spent most of my life RPing so the call came from inside the house.
![Bully (released in the PAL region as Canis Canem Edit; Latin for "dog eat dog")[1] is a 2006 action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar Vancouver and published by Rockstar Games. Set in the fictional town of Bullworth, the single-player story follows juvenile delinquent student Jimmy Hopkins, who is involuntarily enrolled at Bullworth Academy boarding school for a year, and puts his efforts to rise through the ranks of the school system to stop bullying.](https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/d752d472-39e8-4515-9e64-db6f03d8893b.png)