The endless Saga of the legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, but a Judge just shut a door in Microsoft's face.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
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Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
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Good on the judge. The deal is done and Microsoft doesn’t need to demand anything!
Never forget MS spent a combined $80 billion to remove multiplatform publishers from competing platforms and their gamers... even after all this MS are still petty bitc*es.
They are also being looked at by anti-trust agencies again because between MS and Google they're buying up and monopolising everything AI related too.
Good, requesting more information from Sony was just a fishing expedition. They've already reached an agreement so Sony is no longer a 3rd party adversary in this matter. It's the FTC who stringing this out fight with them.
Whenever I think about it: what incredibly dull acquisitions MS had made with Zenimax and AB.
Except for the buyout sum, there was nothing impressive, visionary or special about it. Nothing unique.
They were, plain and simple, only designed to weaken Playstation and Nintendo. And to offer the taken IPs then back to them for money with a contract or maybe a Game Pass agreement.
I really want the Xbox brand to stay around, I really do, because competition is what matters.
But I admit I would let go of a little laugh if, in some years, the acquisitions turn out to have failed financially and didn't draw any gamer away from competition.
But I also admit that, with all those IPs under their hood now, Microsoft now owns a LOT of potential at least to turn things around.
Let's see. Time will tell.
We all know the Judge is biased.