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Cyberpunk 2077 VR Modder Hit by Another DMCA Strike, Pauses Patreon, Pulls Access to All His Mods, and Declares He's 'Under Attack' (www.ign.com)
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Looks like the Ghostrunner developers also have an issue with paid mods running off their IP.

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[–] vetehinen@lethallava.land 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

@Nindelofocho@lemmy.world You seem to essentially be saying the sim mods take a lot of work so it is okay. But that can easily be the case and I would argue has been the case with this VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077 for example.

I think what's really going on here is that the sim devs recognized even paid mods are in their interests and didn't go after them. It may have played a factor that they're generally not been these giant devs raking in endless money.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Curiously, in sim racing the most stable and profitable companies are iRacing Studios, which has their main game accessible by subscription and additional cars and tracks behind a one-time payment (but the game is very hardcore, and for example Max Verstappen uses it between actual races); and Kunos, who are very lax about mods and whose 2014 game is still among the most played in the genre thanks to literally thousands of mods, from which they derive no other profit other than the sales of the game itself (which costs a few bucks for the past five years at least).

In comparison, rFactor 2 is more modern than Assetto Corsa in every way, and has official cars and tracks as pricey DLCs — its dev Studio 397 was bought by Motosports Games, obviously not because of doing too great. MG promised a lot, got licenses to several real racing disciplines, delivered nothing except a buggy game on the side, lost the licenses, and its future is in question.