I think it’s not that clear from the article but basically he has like a base VR conversion mod that can be adapted to many different games, and the entire thing is behind a recurring subscription. So you have to pay monthly but then have access to VR for every game you own which his mod supports
CDPR has it written specifically in their TOS that you can’t paywall any mods for their game. Some type of corporate logic about using their IP as a monetization platform, I don’t really understand why it’s a bad thing as people must buy the game anyway to use the mod, but it is what it is
So he just dropped support for the one game but his mod is otherwise still up for the other games. It also isn’t the first time this exact situation has happened, if I had to guess probably most games have similar TOS but just haven’t bothered to intervene
Likely to do with copyright. If you let someone else profit off of your IP so directly, you risk losing the copyright, since that’s kinda the entire point of copyrights. Letting them profit directly is failing to defend your ownership.
You’re thinking of trademarks, which can get “diluted” or gnericized by allowing unauthorized use. There’s no parallel in copyright — copyright holders can enforce them a little, a lot or not at all without losing their rights.
usually when it comes to this situation, its part branding that its meant to hook into a specific game and using the games name/trademark to functionally sell something.
if it was advertised as a geneeic vr thing that latches onto games, thats one thing. its another to advertise it as VR mode for Cyberpunk 2077.
i dont think either side was wrong. but more that how the dev acted after the fact doesnt paint himself in good light. he could have silently removed the mod and people would have critisized him less (there are hardliners who will complain, but both are in the right to do what they did)
The RealVR mod in general is not locked to a subscription, aside from paying for an initial month. You can subscribe, download it, and cancel your subscription but continue to use the mod. Sometimes game updates can cause the mod to stop working, and then you may need another update which may require a subscription.
I paid for one month and then played Elden Ring in VR for a long ass time, and it was great. Cyberpunk was cool in VR too but I can’t maintain interest in it enough to keep playing it. But I went ahead and disabled updates for that in Steam when I read about this news so I can continue to use the prior versions of the mod on it.
I think it’s not that clear from the article but basically he has like a base VR conversion mod that can be adapted to many different games, and the entire thing is behind a recurring subscription. So you have to pay monthly but then have access to VR for every game you own which his mod supports
CDPR has it written specifically in their TOS that you can’t paywall any mods for their game. Some type of corporate logic about using their IP as a monetization platform, I don’t really understand why it’s a bad thing as people must buy the game anyway to use the mod, but it is what it is
So he just dropped support for the one game but his mod is otherwise still up for the other games. It also isn’t the first time this exact situation has happened, if I had to guess probably most games have similar TOS but just haven’t bothered to intervene
Likely to do with copyright. If you let someone else profit off of your IP so directly, you risk losing the copyright, since that’s kinda the entire point of copyrights. Letting them profit directly is failing to defend your ownership.
You’re thinking of trademarks, which can get “diluted” or gnericized by allowing unauthorized use. There’s no parallel in copyright — copyright holders can enforce them a little, a lot or not at all without losing their rights.
usually when it comes to this situation, its part branding that its meant to hook into a specific game and using the games name/trademark to functionally sell something.
if it was advertised as a geneeic vr thing that latches onto games, thats one thing. its another to advertise it as VR mode for Cyberpunk 2077.
i dont think either side was wrong. but more that how the dev acted after the fact doesnt paint himself in good light. he could have silently removed the mod and people would have critisized him less (there are hardliners who will complain, but both are in the right to do what they did)
The RealVR mod in general is not locked to a subscription, aside from paying for an initial month. You can subscribe, download it, and cancel your subscription but continue to use the mod. Sometimes game updates can cause the mod to stop working, and then you may need another update which may require a subscription.
I paid for one month and then played Elden Ring in VR for a long ass time, and it was great. Cyberpunk was cool in VR too but I can’t maintain interest in it enough to keep playing it. But I went ahead and disabled updates for that in Steam when I read about this news so I can continue to use the prior versions of the mod on it.
Gotcha, thank you for that clarification. I wonder if that’s technically against his TOS lol