• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        This mod was hyped previously. DMCAing it right before its release date is a different kind of dick move; especially considering the game is vulnerable to an RCE exploit and the mod would likely patch it to have things move more securely.

        • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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          The timing of this move makes me want to never buy another game from Activision (or Microsoft, by extension). Just such a blatant exploitation of the community.

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            I think that’s been the move for awhile now. I have not or will not buy anything Activision or Blizzard, I would rather pirate if I wanted it that bad. But I’m finding that their games now a days are just copy and paste someone else’s usually. This really was a dick move though.

            • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.orgOP
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              you’re right about that. I just thought maybe things would be different under Microsoft, but clearly that is not the case.

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        They had to have known about it for a while too.

        So they sat and let the devs get it to a finished state only to pull this

    • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz
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      Fan projects or mods should be never pre-announced, just released once they’re ready. Once it’s out there the big companies can’t stop it.