“It would be great if people had to buy more of the thing,” says guy who makes money selling the thing.

  • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I heard that many things in Japan are extremely protective for companies. Apparently modding is also illegal, right? I was talking with my spouse about console modding and we discovered that

    • Kiloee@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      Yes, modding games is illegal there. But it has something to do with the way their copyright works afaik. If a company lets you modify their IP, they effectively give up their ownership rights from what I understood.

      I play FFXIV and there it is against TOS too (of course it being a MMO modding can have another context), but for quite a few QoL improvements that came out with more recent patches you can clearly see the inspiration.

      It would be interesting to know if modding a game like Skyrim there would be forbidden too.