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Again, CDPR is not trying to stop mods, and not even trying to stop modders from making money from it, as long as users offer to do so voluntarily to help with the effort. The sole thing they complained about is the modder FORCING users to pay, because this turns the mod into a commercial service, which was always prohibited by their EULA. A lot of software has limitations for commercial use. For example you weren't allowed to use a Quest in a business setting for years, and after the introduction of their recently killed business program you were only allowed to do so if you bought the technical identical business version at twice the price, with the sole difference being the license. Not sure if it is still in there, but in the past the Windows EULA explicitly prohibited using it to run a nuclear power plant, most likely to never get drawn into the astronomical regress demands in case of a nuclear accident. Companies can absolutely define under which circumstances their software is used, and that includes what tool you can use with it. And technically Ross's mod requires a copy of CD Project's game to function, without them ever having given permission to sell such an add-on, and legally he cannot simply claim that it is the users breaking CD Projects license agreement. Running an aim assist tool with your totally legit copy of your game will get you banned, and the company offering that aim assist tool will get a much less friendly DCMA takedown request than Ross got from CD Project, referring to their license that explicitly forbid offering mods as a paid-only service. And they left the door open for him to keep working on the mod and still make money by making it available for free but stating that new updates would only be released if a certain monthly threshold is met on Patreon, because this way it would again be up to the users to decide to support the developer. He decided to drop the project instead.

All I'm saying is I think this is short sighted... Back in the end of the 90's, when anyone tried to play Bladerunner on a "personal computer", he was flagged as the anti-christ of those days. Look at things now. Furthermore, CDPR having the balls to try and dictate what can /can't be done and how is the same misguided power trip the movie industry had back in the day. If they want this to go away, they can just do it better. It's not like its harming sales. Absolutely no one that goes through all the hoops required just to get the mod and to make it work is dumb enough not to know the unpredictable and totally unofficial nature of Ross' product. How's that different from previous products like VorpX ? How's that different from the many softwares that convert 2D movies to 3D? ??? Now, I've never used Ross' mods, but if they are distributed in such a way that they do not contain any of CDPR's files or code, then I don't see a difference between this and "movie-type" media VS any software media player. Time will tell.

If he made it free he would be expected to keep it updated, but now there's no more money in it. He should just open source it and let somebody post it on Nexus if he is done with it.

Here we go, This is for small mined people. VR is dead They said the same thing about computers. People for home use do not just want Business computers or computers that are for just a few specific applications. They want Good computers that can and will do it all. Why take your product and limit its scope and application. It can do it all. Why not take the money. What are you in business for. To give up money? Not to make it.? A total fool thinks like that. I really do not think that type of person should be doing any business at all. Yes, we had people like this back in the day, I remember well. They said PC gaming was totally dead, and it was for a little while. I kept building them anyway kept gaining knowledge. I had a job where I was the only one who knew how to use computers well. I made tons of money. Then a little company with vision came along its name was Steam (do you know them). They saw and knew what I knew. They would build games to push the computer industry and in turn Pushed the hardware, Computers would have to become better, faster, we needed to push them to their limits. We needed that because the computers we had could hardly run the games we needed to play. Small minded Microsoft used to say computers don't need fancy graphics cards. We have DOS, is that not grand. Nvidia said otherwise. AMD said otherwise as well. Do you see a pattern. Have I taught you anything. Steam just this mouth made 1.6 Billion off of one game. Nvidia and AMD are totally no small fries either, and I can see you saying well people have gaming consoles. They are limited and cannot be pushed. PC gamers are the trail blazers, we pushed VR. We pushed what is capable. AND WE HAVE MONEY. We are not little kids that have none, you know, the ones Meta populated Horizon World with. Then gave away free games. Tell me was this strategy wise. There is a happy medium Meta does not understand. Build a device for all, one that can do it all. This way you get all the money. That's how business works. Now go back to school where you belong.

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