Player Attack: Following the uber-successful showing of Firefall at PAX Prime, developer Red 5 was approached by Valve, who expressed an interest in hosting the MMO through digital distribution system Steam.
Mark Kern, CEO of Red 5, explains that – while he’d “love to find a way” for the project to work, he had to decline the offer.
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Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
some type of deal needs to be reached.both parties could benefit in the end.
A big chunk of profit? From what I read by other developers, it never seemed to be that big of a chunk. I'd like to know how much of a percentage............
A fair argument; although I do hope they reach an agreement, as having Firefall on Steam would likely increase its player base, as Steam seems like a great place to show off your game to PC gamers.
Steam sucks. Us in the developing world hate it like the devil. Foraging 3G data for a month after buying the game is heatbreaking. Why oh why does steam not give option to play without updating. Origin does. GFWL is good for us.