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hisao@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Yeah, but that’s not cool. If you think about it harder, non-naive, you wouldn’t want to do any of this even at the point of realizing that you boost blizz/wow popularity for free, by doing a lot of hard work; you don’t even need to go deeper to the point of realizing you can’t build extended versions of wow this way legally, but this one is even worse.

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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So I take it you’re also not a fan of modding or fan art?

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- hisao@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m fan of modding, but I wouldn’t want to waste my own time doing modding in cases like this. Outside of opensource projects, modding works well for old, effectively abandonware games, running on custom sourceports. Where almost everything is allowed and corpos don’t blatantly abuse peoples free work. I do mapping for Doom and Heretic. I play Minecraft mods occasionally but I pity developers for spending their time and not getting what they deserve in return and I wouldn’t want to waste my time doing Minecraft mods myself to support Microsoft Mojang mismanaging this game so bad. Theoretically Luanti could have been the solution, but it’s just damn bad because that particular kind of top-down approach to extensibility didn’t work well. Fan art is in much better place because it’s a mutual benefit: artists benefit from working with popular franchise because it draws attention to them.
  
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  - teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    I wouldn’t want to waste my time doing…mods myself to support [corpos]…
    
    Fan art is in much better place because it’s a mutual benefit: artists benefit from working with popular franchise because it draws attention to them.
    
    Doesn’t that seem like a double standard? Mods that support “corpos” are a waste of time, but somehow fan art is mutually beneficial? But “mods” are literally “fan art”, the only difference is the word you’re using using. Fan art is limited in all the same ways Turtle WoW is and vice versa.
    
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    hisao@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s very different, in multiple ways. Artists earn money from commissions, the main mechanic to get more commissions is to become more popular. Algorithms on main platforms work by association. It’s as simple as this:
    
    I draw my OCs, I want to do commissions.
    
    Very few people are viewing my posts and are aware of me.
    
    What do I do to attract more people, who will in turn buy more commissions?
    
    Draw a fanart of popular character and/or a trending gimmick (your version of new Sonic x Miku meme, Miku birthday, you OC wearing Asuka cloth, you OC in Ghibli style, etc).
    
    This posts gets pushed by algorithm into the feeds of people who like certain popular character or shown interest in current gimmick/meme/trend thing.
    
    Some of those people after enjoying post go to artist’s page and view their other works.
    
    If they like what they see they might subscribe and order commissions later. And, this is not all: to my knowledge, the whole copyright thing is way less of an issue in fan arts, I definitely see a lot of people freely taking money for doing commissions of popular characters like Hatsune Miku for example, or characters from popular animes.
    
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