January's Ready or Not Update brings about plenty of new inclusions like weapons and maps, as well as removal of questionable content.
Insider Gaming has learned that Void Interactive, the developers of Ready or Not, have had 4TB of data stolen in massive breach that includes all of the game's source code, including console builds.
Been keeping my eye on this game for a while but never took the plunge and bought it because it seems to get a lot of stick from the community that the devs are all talk and no action. They’ve been promising an awful lot but not actually releasing anything new so maybe an easy way out??
Guess they weren't ready.
It does suck though to see all your hard work be dumped out there like that hopefully the studio recovers
CG writes: On one hand, we get that it takes a lot of time and effort to mod a game and one should be entirely thankful as a consumer. However, we think some practices you might see on Patreon encourage piracy simply because the modder is seemingly being too greedy.
Should fans charge money for fangames? Because that what mods are, content made by fans, nothing else.
This "issue" has had a solution for decades. You credit the modders, and modders accept donations. Some mods are paid, that's up to the modders, if a console game wants to cater to that, that'd have to build in a whole storefront for that and I just don't see that happening. I'm also not fond of Bethesdas approach if skimming money off the work of others especially when the modders doesn't even charge for the mod themselves.
If they can do a better job than the devs. (which happens more often than not) yeah I wouldn't mind if their not too greedy.
Im not opposed to the idea depending on how much effort went in to creating it but how do we gauge that? And we all know how humans are, This is all a slippery slope, from horse armour to loot boxes, not the exact same thing but you get my drift. People get VERY greedy.
Is this the S.W.A.T. game to outswat the law enforcement legend that is S.W.A.T. 4?
"Another note is the removal of that of "cringe VO." There are instances of an AI saying "My Mom has a Mexican maid," which some may deem as racist."
Why the hell was a line like that written and recorded for the game in the first place? It's not like they didn't know at the time, they're only removing it because they got called out. These are the same guys that lost their publisher because of a school shooter mission. They're coming across as being very dudebro to me.
"Beyond removing questionable content, VOID Interactive has also taken steps to cover their legal bases, as there were copyrighted assets in the game. This includes copyrighted art and music, both of which have been removed according to this Ready or Not Update."
If you didn't have the legal right to those assets why did you put them in the game to begin with? You actually released and sold the game for a month with those assets, you can still be sued regardless of removing the content. Really unprofessional.