Oh right yeah, extra confusing in the way I worded that too.
A guy called Josh commissioned the original art, I don't know if he was a Bungie employee or not. I was just interested in peoples view of this dynamic. An artist takes money to draw/copy copyright material and then is immediately upset when someone is taking money for their work too. I know it's not apples to apples, one being a corporation and one being an individual. I was just unsure on where the line is drawn on this kind of stuff as I don't spend much time in the art communities.
No, the nerf gun is sold by Bungie in collaboration with Hasbro. Whoever did the art for the nerf gun, whether in house or contracted, looked online and just stole the artists', Tofu's, work. Bungie are compensating them for it, so its a non issue now, but its just another case of art being stolen for official products.
The point is, we are enjoying free content without any advertising and monetisation slapped on. If that happens, then we just leave, we are not demanding free content, we just consume it because it exists. The donation model is the only one that works in this space, or this space fails as another attempt at capitalism where it wasn't needed or requested.
Kind of fun, kind of chaos. Games start off pretty calm, then quickly turn into ability and dash spam. It feels quite clunky in places. The map is kind of confusing and unnecessarily complex. I personally think it would work better in a more traditional MOBA setup of 5v5, 3 lanes. But they are still refining it, so maybe it will turn out a lot better than it currently is.
Oh no! The poor multi-billion dollar football leagues are losing out on pennies from people who cant afford extortionate subscription services! Quick, take legal action!
Piracy is a service problem.
I was happy with an ad at the side of the video. Then they started popping up over my video, then they started appearing before my video, then they started appearing throughout my video. Companies shot themselves in the foot with online advertising, banner ads and such weren't much of a problem, but once ads start disrupting the content we visit a site for, then we look to block them ads. More people blocking ads is less revenue, so they make the ads more aggressive... and the cycle continues.
And on a side note, Linus can fuck off.
MTX have become normalized and it's fucking depressing to see. So many people defend their existence, truly a sad time for the industry.
Valve could reduce their cut honestly, perhaps some program for independent developers to help them get on their feet. I don't think the top games or big publishers should be getting cut reductions.
Either way, Valve haven't been buying out studios for exclusive games, so Epic and Sweeney can go fuck themselves, they are scum.
Yeah, I'm not too familiar with US fair use, seems fair use if they weren't profiting from it, but it's harmless really as long as they don't mass sell prints I guess?
It's nerf so it's gotta be orange right aha, as least it isn't blue and orange!