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EULA for Warcraft 3: Reforged Effectively Gives Blizzard Ownership of All Custom Games - MMORPG.com
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EULA for Warcraft 3: Reforged Effectively Gives Blizzard Ownership of All Custom Games - MMORPG.com News
It looks like the End-User License Agreement (EULA) for Warcraft 3: Reforged gives total ownership of all custom games to Blizzard.
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This is just more proof of its death.
At the hands of executives.
Just my 2 cents as a spectator. Just grab some popcorn, either way, it's going to be a good show.
They wanna make sure that if another LoL rises from their game, that they can sue them for all they're worth. Even if they didn't have a hand in the creative process whatsoever.
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It's Anti-Consumer Tactics. Maybe you're young enough that you don't remember the times when we OWNED the products we bought and we OWNED the Intellectual Property we created with them.
LONG before Blizzard became a popular brand or household name we had what is called MODDING and gave players FREEDOM.Matter of fact it is partially what made the UNREAL series popular,the UNREAL engine the biggest name in the industry,Geesh Epic games offered MONEY to modder's with the best work,labeled "make something Unreal" contest.
Blizzard instead likes to maintain full control and not cater to the COMMUNITY aspect what so ever, a VERY greedy business.
You as a business are SUPPOSED to show respect to the very people who make you rich,you do not instead confine them and tell them NO NO NO.This is NOT about copyright,this is sheer greed and nothing more.
Where do people think Counterstrike came from?
Since i have been very much entrenched in Hearthstone over the years i can point to that game as well.We are supposed to be BUYING the cards,they are suppose to be OURS but they are NOT.Within MTG a game i played for many years,we owned our cards,we could SELL them and trade them freely but apparently Blizzard would rather get away somehow by scamming people with FAKE purchases.A pack sale is clearly labeled as a SALE ...a PURCHASE,yet all we are purchasing is a license to use the cards and nothing more,yet that is not clearly stated in the purchase because it would be a negative way to sell the product,easier to be deceptive.
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This is not a matter of 'do you like the graphics?' It's 40$ for losing features and a game that doesn't work... Srsly imagine someone NOT called Blizzard would release something like this... who would defend this?
mmorpg junkie since 1999
Am I the only one who just wants to flood their mods with magna and absolute trash like models in an attempt to say "Sure you can have this neo nazi orc that wears this shirt saying "I support nazi's like Blizzard does".
They can it.
Yeah I bet if you made DOTA and then Blizzard just profitted off of your game play elements because you modified their boring ass game to something worthwhile...I don't think compliment is the word you'd be using when crying about "YOU MADE DOTA". YOU!
See modifications drive play after the base game is crushed. So basically blizzard owns literally any idea you put there. Not cool true.
But standards with a company that is basically the real doll to activision? Oh for sure.
Anyhow this is going to screw modders who use patreon to keep funs going.
Or any service as such.
See... You can't exactly donate to someone who doesn't own the content to even begin to ask for money. Hell that violates the terms right there for anyone using patreon.
You'd take it as a compliment..lol that's how you know someone doesn't mod. FK that. Use my stuff but atleast give me a reacharound in the credits.
Nobody is interested in reviving their museum pieces. This is laughable.
Bethesda has always claimed the rights to players' mods; right up to saying "no you can't use assets to remake morrowind (or Oblivion for that matter).
Why should players piggy back off the work of the developers for their own gain?
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^blizzard employee
the company should be vigilante and notice a trendy mod, and then pitch a business offer to help the creator expand on their vision and also make some money on it along the way, but without a doubt in your mind its better for them to just hijack an idea and due the classic twist it and ruin it blizzard move.
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/Blizzard takes it one step further and asks for ownership of player mods and assets. That's huge for most modders because once you put something into mod for Blizzard game you lose it and can't use it anywhere else ever again.