Not really much of a deterrent as long as you fill your inventory with mana potions.
a mana cost of 20 would mean you can cast it ~twice on a medium level (twice and then passing out on lower levels). I don't think the mana potion route would be sustainable in that case. Even a cost of 15 might suffice and would definitely be warranted considering the spell's power.
Most mods are not strictly legal even if game companies generally don't do anything to stop them. A patch also isn't automatically free of copyright - and a patch upgrading an executable to one compiled with a much newer compiler will likely contain almost the whole new executable. I'm all for ignoring copyright where you can get away with it but I can also understand how someone who is himself still in the industry (even if semi-retired) would want to keep things 100% kosher. Also, whatever agreement allowed him to keep the source code could have additional teeth.
What, remasters never happen? Or do you think the developers making them work for free?
Sawyer made the mod purely for himself and then released it due to public demand. It's not official, he merely worked on it.
Yeah, not exactly official, which is why I used "official".
Such things are unnecessary. If Bethesda didn't want people making and putting mods out there, they wouldn't have gone through the great effort of making and releasing user friendly mod tools.Yeah, not exactly official, which is why I used "official".
But did he contact Bethesda, prior to releasing the mod publicly?
The idea that Microsoft/Activison would sue him or deliver a C&D for improving one of their products for free is ludicrous. As far as I know, no one has ever been in trouble legally for releasing a mod or an unofficial patch to a game.
Co8 and Temple+ mods have got you covered!
I know right?Such things are unnecessary. If Bethesda didn't want people making and putting mods out there, they wouldn't have gone through the great effort of making and releasing user friendly mod tools.Yeah, not exactly official, which is why I used "official".
But did he contact Bethesda, prior to releasing the mod publicly?
It's called an anal-something personality, not anal-retentive, but something else? In infants, it manifests as them refusing to poo, retaining the poo within, until begged or until sufficient attention to the matter is given.
Yes, would be unlikely for Microsoft. But still possible and even without legal action there might be consequences for someone that still wants to keep open the possibility of working with them in the future.
https://www.techspot.com/news/83353-take-two-sues-modder-over-red-dead-redemption.html
Yep.
He doesn't seem to be too eager to leave behind the game industry for good to me. And even if he does stop dragging his feet on that he might end up getting bored and want to come back. No reason to reduce his future options, especially not without exhausting other ways to get the patch released (i.e. with Microsoft's approval).
Notwithstanding moving goalpost, re3 absolutely does fix bugs in a PC game. And Tim releasing a patch based on private source code would also not be a "regular" mod either. Not exactly the same as a patch from reverse-engineered sources but also not completely different.
Maybe his dog or husband could accidentally upload it to their open Google Drive account. What a whoopsie that would be.
Like his balls.
