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
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theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 months agoNice, and they waited til the end of the Steam sale, too. Real classy.
GingeyBook@lemm.ee 3 months ago
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 months ago
They’re happy to let it drive sales for their game.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I mean, apparently not. They could have had even more sales once the mod released, but I guess they don’t like money.
CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 3 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.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 months ago
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.
bastionntb@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
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.
theangriestbird@beehaw.org 3 months ago
you’re right about that. I just thought maybe things would be different under Microsoft, but clearly that is not the case.