Ok if mods are cheating, that’s fine. Who cares if people cheat on their own experience of a game they bought? Oh no, someone is “cheating” at Megaman 🙄. Someone is cheating at Resident Evil. So what, Capcom? Why does it matter? Who are they impacting besides themselves?
Online issues? Different story, so just make sure those people can’t play online. Gotta tell ya, though, the overwhelming majority of mods don’t do that, and when they do, the devs have already put something in there to deter it. Most mods on multiplayer games are model swaps and reskins (really, it’s all just big titty mods)
Instead, Capcom, give us mod tools. Do what Bethesda does and give us a whole-ass creation kit, that way, your game can remain relevant for over a decade and make bank every couple years when you rerelease it. Skyrim isn’t beloved for the vanilla experience
Ok if mods are cheating, that’s fine. Who cares if people cheat on their own experience of a game they bought? Oh no, someone is “cheating” at Megaman 🙄. Someone is cheating at Resident Evil. So what, Capcom? Why does it matter? Who are they impacting besides themselves?
Yeah, unless it’s multiplayer, a gamer should be permitted to cheat however they want. Adult gamers need to take care of stuff and don’t have time for such eccentricities. It’s not only big publishers like Capcom, though. The indie developer of Project Warlock likened quick saving to cheating and his artistic intend was not to allow that. Die in a map and start from the beginning. WTF. Those publishers/developers need to realize that gamers are paying customers and need to treat them this way.
And most mods aren’t actually cheating anyway. They are cosmetic changes, new equipment, gamepleay alterations, and sure, some are intended to make the games easier, but there are those that make them harder too
My brother in christ, OG Terraria was never this fucking tough to beat. People created new layers of difficulty for bosses, like how is that cheating. It took me about 100 hours to beat that game while duplicating resources, because it was so hard. Even next-class weapons and armor didn’t make late-game bosses easy. But oh boy how great was the feeling of defeating the SCal. That was many years ago, I don’t even know if they added another fuckton of content.
Who cares if people cheat on their own experience of a game they bought?
Yep, that’s me.
I have a family, a job that burns my brain out most days, and other hobbies. When I play games, I like to just turn off my brain and shoot bad guys with impunity. I don’t have time to actually Gut GudTM, so I often cheat a bit and never play multiplayer.
It works for me and anyone bothered by that, including Capcom, should fuck off and worry about their own lives.
No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.
the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not
game modification is a felony crime in japan and sk
One big problem is that almost everything can be called a mod. Modification and distribution of modified copyrighted content, if not permitted, can be a copyright violation, unless jurisdictions have some sort of Fair Use system (small tangent: with all the shit DMCA brought, Fair Use is actually awesome).
That said, embracing most kinds of mods should be in the self-interest of game publishers. They are basically free labor, be it by fixing bugs the publisher should fix (see Starfield) or just by extending the life span of a game in general and thereby increasing lifetime sales.
Modification and distribution of modified copyrighted content, if not permitted, can be a copyright violation
Generally you are not distributing any content from the game. Most mods to games are using API calls to a mod loader to change the game for the user on runtime. These distributed mods generally have no copyright content in them.
Most mods to games are using API calls to a mod loader to change the game for the user on runtime.
As I’ve literally written in my first sentence: “almost everything can be called a mod.”
There are many types of mods, not just using API calls to make the game behave differently. AI upscaled texture packs are derived from the originals, for example. Extracting assets from one game and putting them into another is also not uncommon. I don’t know which methods most mods use. I’m not aware of a quotable statistic.
Ok if mods are cheating, that’s fine. Who cares if people cheat on their own experience of a game they bought? Oh no, someone is “cheating” at Megaman 🙄. Someone is cheating at Resident Evil. So what, Capcom? Why does it matter? Who are they impacting besides themselves?
Online issues? Different story, so just make sure those people can’t play online. Gotta tell ya, though, the overwhelming majority of mods don’t do that, and when they do, the devs have already put something in there to deter it. Most mods on multiplayer games are model swaps and reskins (really, it’s all just big titty mods)
Instead, Capcom, give us mod tools. Do what Bethesda does and give us a whole-ass creation kit, that way, your game can remain relevant for over a decade and make bank every couple years when you rerelease it. Skyrim isn’t beloved for the vanilla experience
-Sincerely, a Monster Hunter modder
Yeah, unless it’s multiplayer, a gamer should be permitted to cheat however they want. Adult gamers need to take care of stuff and don’t have time for such eccentricities. It’s not only big publishers like Capcom, though. The indie developer of Project Warlock likened quick saving to cheating and his artistic intend was not to allow that. Die in a map and start from the beginning. WTF. Those publishers/developers need to realize that gamers are paying customers and need to treat them this way.
And most mods aren’t actually cheating anyway. They are cosmetic changes, new equipment, gamepleay alterations, and sure, some are intended to make the games easier, but there are those that make them harder too
Yeah, like Calamity for Terraria.
My brother in christ, OG Terraria was never this fucking tough to beat. People created new layers of difficulty for bosses, like how is that cheating. It took me about 100 hours to beat that game while duplicating resources, because it was so hard. Even next-class weapons and armor didn’t make late-game bosses easy. But oh boy how great was the feeling of defeating the SCal. That was many years ago, I don’t even know if they added another fuckton of content.
Yep, that’s me.
I have a family, a job that burns my brain out most days, and other hobbies. When I play games, I like to just turn off my brain and shoot bad guys with impunity. I don’t have time to actually Gut GudTM, so I often cheat a bit and never play multiplayer.
It works for me and anyone bothered by that, including Capcom, should fuck off and worry about their own lives.
game modification is a felony crime in japan and sk (i dont know the specifics too well, but i believe they are fairly vague laws too)
No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/01/game-modding-illegal-in-japan-punishable-by-prison-and-fines/
okay the sk one is now a spam website so i got game journoed by some guy. for reference this is whats supposed to be the source for sk claim http://web.archive.org/web/20161204074124/https://imgur.com/a/JzqQM both underline jail time. is this wrong? if you could share some more definite sources id be thankful.
the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not
makes sense! thank you for correcting me. i only remember the headlines so perhaps i shouldnt have been as confident about the matter
Why am I not surprised?
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“Felony” isn’t really a thing in many places outside the USA anymore, and I’m not aware of it ever being a thing in Japan
is it never used to distinguish crimes punishable by significant prison time outside the us?
According to Wikipedia, only in Cameroon and Germany
I didn’t know James Cameroon family was named after a country
One big problem is that almost everything can be called a mod. Modification and distribution of modified copyrighted content, if not permitted, can be a copyright violation, unless jurisdictions have some sort of Fair Use system (small tangent: with all the shit DMCA brought, Fair Use is actually awesome).
That said, embracing most kinds of mods should be in the self-interest of game publishers. They are basically free labor, be it by fixing bugs the publisher should fix (see Starfield) or just by extending the life span of a game in general and thereby increasing lifetime sales.
Generally you are not distributing any content from the game. Most mods to games are using API calls to a mod loader to change the game for the user on runtime. These distributed mods generally have no copyright content in them.
As I’ve literally written in my first sentence: “almost everything can be called a mod.”
There are many types of mods, not just using API calls to make the game behave differently. AI upscaled texture packs are derived from the originals, for example. Extracting assets from one game and putting them into another is also not uncommon. I don’t know which methods most mods use. I’m not aware of a quotable statistic.