Fallout 4 Illegal Mods
Sep 28, 2016 Ramses. 3DM is easily the biggest one. Most major mods are released here first, including the ARROW&KNEE (ARROW&GUN) team. There's also some very weird shit to be found if.
I've spent almost a decade on The Nexus now. Put up with a lot of stuff.
Bullying, racism, angry PMs, elitism, and something else. Something which I assumed was folly. Namely the ridiculous Jingoistic attitude levied towards everyone.A while ago, a modder approached me offering the permission to use some of his assets. This modder was part of a certain famous modding team. I said I was interested, and thought his meshes looked cool. He never got back to me.Years pass, and I tell this guy about it when we're talking about this modding team, and how I almost collaborated with them once.
Suddenly, he tells the modding team itself. They send in one of their pretend lawyers to investigate the matter. I politely told the guy that if the modder who offered me the assets wanted him, the internet lawyer, to know anything about his, the modder's, personal business, then he, the modder, would tell him, the internet lawyer.Suddenly I was 'Possibly protecting a mod thief.'
I never actually got any assets, so no, I wasn't. I thought this was just a pathetic scare tactic to get me to violate someone's confidentiality. A false accusation without evidence. Something no person should have to care the slightest about.Even though, thanks to nVidia, I own two legal copies of Fallout 4, I don't feel safe here anymore. Suspicion is now evidence, and the moderators here may or may not stalk me on social media profiles outside of The Nexus. They crossed a pretty clear line, and I don't know where the new one is drawn.If they had banned him on the comment alone, I'd say 'That's a bit paranoid, but whatever.'
But when they actually go after people on other websites outside of their own jurisdiction, then we're looking at internet vigilantism and borderline doxxing.As of now, I'm retiring from modding. This is simply absurd, and just by witnessing this level of overzealous moderation, I feel completely violated.I've put up all kinds of content here, and probably generated thousands of dollars or pounds or whatever in ad revenue for The Nexus. I hope The Nexus lets me keep my account to download and use mods.
I'll even offer modders advice like I usually to. But I'm done modding. I've been soexhausted and burned out from doing it, and now I've lost all motivation. There is no trust. No respect, and no boundaries.I won't cause any drama, or hide my files.
Obviously people should still be allowed to enjoy them. But my spirit is completely broken, this has simply been too much.Good day. It's been fun. TreyM: Agreed I guess (he did create content though and perhaps generated way more than the game costs).
But yeah the rules are what they are, and I totally understand why Nexus has this policy.But having a public Steam-profile isn't part of the rules and the I find the invasion of privacy worse than the offense he was accused of. Just to be clear, while he hinted that he didn't have the latest version it could have just as well been due to forced updates rendering your preferred mods out of order. While from the context it seems more likely he did in fact not contribute financially to Bethesda and kept a foulmouthed parrot as a pet.If he was banned at this point it wouldn't be that much of a big deal.
But then someone links his assumed profile on Steam where FO4 can't be found among the games (tbh I have no clue how Steam handles your profile information by default). And that is semi-doxing in my book. Which I consider way worse than suspected piracy of a game that made 750 million dollars at launch. The person who did the ban then demands he opens his profile for inspection which is a totally unreasonable request.Anyway, fever ramlbing accomplished. I'm gonna stop now:).
His point is snitching or telling others about a situation that they have no right to know about is sometimes worthwhile and sometimes not and in this instance it is not worthwhile.There is no harm done in 'stealing' other modders work as long as they aren't selling it which by the way is so illegal, in violation to modders rights, and suable that it's not even funny.However, this 'theft' is taking certain resources from a mod and using it in one's own and distributing it for free. That isn't snitching where I come from, I don't think you understand the word. Snitching is a derogative term for reporting a crime.
If you have knowledge of a crime and don't report it, then you are what is called culpable and you are considered as a guilty party in the eyes of the law and those laws were put in place decades ago to combat organized crime. Lovely things like human trafficking, narcotics, murder for hire. So by not being a 'rat' you are assume a direct responsibility for those things existing. This has nothing to do with this situation, I'm just sick of the snitches get stitches attitude childish and uncivilized people have.
I'll take you to a couple neighborhoods in my city where people don't report crimes and we'll see if you want to get out of the car and walk around those areas. To put it in perspective, if you removed those two areas from Chicago, the Chicago metropolitan area would be the 4th safest major metropolitan city on Earth, not in the US, not in Illinois, but on Earth. Chicago is a seen as a massive murder capital of the world because of two neighborhoods a few blocks wide and long because so much crime goes on there unreported. What you are talking about in the Balkans war has nothing to do with that. Those aren't snitches, they are spies and genocidal lunatics.
If I ask someone for permission to use assets they have made I keep a copy of the conversation, shuts up the internet police quick and any assets I use I credit the original author and usually link to the original mod it came from. If someone comes to me from another site trying to cause problems I say bring it on. If a site bans me due to what I do somewhere else then the site that banned me isn't worth staying at or keeping anything on, I would remove everything and go somewhere else.I have custom assets for one of my mods on another site where I allow the use of most of them and have not had any issues with it so far. I have sort of had my mod distributed on other sites but since they went and translated the mod into another language I don't mind though I will only support the versions I personally uploaded.
Fallout 4 Illegal Mods 1
I love a good old game remaster. Nothing satisfies my inner child quite like playing through a game I grew up with that has been re-released with new graphics and gameplay mechanics that were impossible to implement during its initial release. While not every game will be remastered, I will gladly accept a game mod developed by a loving fan or team of fans that perfectly recreates an old game. But, that’s where legal issues come in, and sometimes what starts as a hopeful dream ends in tears and tragedy.The mod, known as the, had a simple dream: recreate Fallout 3 in its entirety (or as much as possible) with Blender, ZBrush, and the Fallout 4 Creation Kit. It isn’t unlike the (or TESRenewal) that uses the engine from in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to recreate the two previous games, Morrowind and Oblivion (and AND TO recreate Morrowind in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion’s engine).
Note: I just mentioned TESRenewal in the present tense and the Capital Wasteland Project in the past. Well, there’s a reason, one shared by Twitter user.Juice Head’s post quotes Capital Wasteland Project lead NafNaf95. While NafNaf95 states his team wanted to make the game as legally as possible, they didn’t think everything through and had some ideas that could have put them in hot water, specifically get them accused of piracy/copyright infringement. They considered all their options to avoid these issues, including rerecording over iconic voice actors who, according to NafNaf95, helped give Fallout 3 its “charm and personality.”Even though there was no guarantee the development team would have been sued for piracy/copyright infringement (games such as this exist in a gray area of the law), they made the difficult decision to immediately stop the project. While they plan to come back to the Capital Wasteland Project should they ever receive the blessings of Bethesda and Zenimax, until that time comes, the ambitious project should be considered dead and buried.The Capital Wasteland Project has sadly met the same fate as many other games that, while created out of love, were halted due to legal troubles, including AM2R (Another Metroid 2 Remake) and Pokemon Uranium. Although, in the spirit of fairness, AM2R was shut down because Nintendo was in the middle of developing its own Metroid 2: Samus Returns remake.
Fallout 4 Modern Firearms 2.5
Moreover, Pokemon Uranium was not a fan-remake but a standalone fan project that introduced new Pokemon, regions, moves, and music, and we have yet to receive a clear answer why Nintendo shut down that fan project. Regardless, since these games were developed in an unofficial capacity, their creators need to respect the wishes of the copyright holders.Perhaps the Capital Wasteland Project will come back one day. Or Bethesda will eventually hire the developers for a Fallout 3 remaster, not unlike how Valve hired the creators of the Team Fortress mod for Quake to develop Team Fortress Classic and Team Fortress 2. But, right now, that’s just a pipe dream.