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I never quite understood modern modding. Back in the day we knew it wasn't our game, we knew it belonged to the company and that modding was just for fun. Nobody was entitled enough to think they should make money off of, or be allowed to make a mod for a AAA game and the company would just be ok with that.
Basically, mods have always been against the rules. But we did it for fun. Then it became accepted by the developers, so people now feel entitled to mods and making money off mods you made in someone else's game.
Really strange take. If you buy lemons from a farmer are they entitled to the profit you may make from lemonade? Or to shut down your shoppe?
THIS is a strange take. A lemon isn't an IP.
But let's stay it this way, a movie studio makes a movie like Avengers. I buy a copy, I alter it and add new elements using CGI. Now I resell my cut, call it 100% mine, and ask people to pay me for it's copyright.
If you're modding just for you or for fun, whatever. But modern modders are generally big crews, with funding and who make money off the mod by selling it and by streaming content off it.
I don't see how this is different. Your cut would be a unique product. Marvel will still be making their millions off of the movie. Also these days the majority of the budget goes to actors who continue to get obscenely rich while the VFX artists get laid off, I wouldn't even support the big movie studios
Thats how art has worked for the majority of human civilization, and has only changed very recently.
So. Yeah, bud, modders are returning artwork to its roots. Huzzah.