Are we suppose to have sympathy for a company that leaves profit that they could make by actually meeting demand on the table and instead launches legal action against their most devoted customers?

I mean, ring around the rosie is about the bubonic plague...

Where do we draw the line on depicting in-game actions as IRL-actions?

Uh... He does know that the Nirvana song really isn’t about parrots, right?

They can add crackers to the game. Problem solved and they still have a nice reference.

I remember when Finding Nemo came out, cities were having to release disclaimers on flushing fish down the toilet. Turns out all drains do lead to the ocean, just after several processing plants.

Sort of like most sports. How many people who watch Pro football/basketball/baseball actually play the games themselves?

Jeez that sounds like some sci-fi book storyline. Generations of people in a caravan working through a massive maze. Nobody still lives that saw the entrance, and nobody alive will come close to the exit.

That’s not true at all. Inquisition started development just a few months after DA2. I know this because I wrote about it in a book that’s coming out soon ;)

Yup. If he wanted to make the mod only available to his 100 closest friends I would be fine with even that. He made the thing, he gets to decide what to do with it.

Came here to post this.

I don’t necessarily think tying a mod to a volatile DRM service that can ruin a game if the service goes down/player loses connection to the game is a good thing.

The most depressing part is how he has to explain that his own personal belief against giving thieves something for free, BECAUSE THEY ARE THIEVES has to be ‘justified’ with “well, I don’t need my code tied to pirated code and breaking licenses”

Fuck pirates of games basically. Also, if he’s blacklisting specific people, good on him. It’s his mod.

I was actually following this on the Steam forum for Automata last night (and part of this morning; there are a couple of people who got into it with Kaldaien that are still crowing about his ban/soothing their individually savaged egos--Kaldaien can field a pretty scorching argument when the mood strikes), and was…

I can’t use this free mod, that this guy made without expecting any revenue in return, with my illegally obtained copy of this widely available, new release?! Time to rage about it!

This guy took a page out of ‘White House response tactics 101'. We don’t like that we got caught doing something shitty. So, blame the media that is reporting on it.

Well, at least its thematically consistent.

If given the chance I would play only against people above a certain age. Hopefully the chat dialogue wouldn’t be as terrible as it is with younger people