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I played a pirate copy of VC when I was a poor student and loved the game. Hearing of ReVC just now made me consider buying it, a 20 year old game. Take-Twos b
by eurasiantiger 5y ago
I played a pirate copy of VC when I was a poor student and loved the game.
Hearing of ReVC just now made me consider buying it, a 20 year old game. Take-Twos belligerent approach just killed that consideration. They have fans both hardcore enough to restore the game and loving enough to provide the restored version to others, and they choose to slap them with a lawsuit over a 20 year old game?
We the people don’t have the right to distribute copyrighted files, but we do have a right to repair broken software, just like we have the right to repair other things we own, and we certainly have a right to help others do the same.
- m-p-3 5y agoI suspect that they plan to rerelease or remaster the game, and having a fan project being of higher quality than their own product would undercut their sales expectations.
- cinntaile 5y agoThey're coming this fall. https://kotaku.com/the-gta-remastered-trilogy-appears-to-be-real-and-comi-1847474620 https://kotaku.com/the-gta-remastered-trilogy-appears-to-be-...
- philipov 5y agoBeing an asshole should also undercut their sales expectations.
- m-p-3 5y agoThey probably accounted for that, and the loses from being an asshole were likely smaller on paper than the loses from a better fan remake. That might change if it goes viral tho.
- brezelgoring 5y ago>[...]having a fan project being of higher quality than their own product[...] Seeing how the recent GTA:SA releases perform, that's quite easy to achieve. Makes me think there should be some legal contemplation that if you don't actively distribute or charge for this stuff you get to do it anyhow.