Zion Warcry project cancelled Created 7 years ago2017-06-28 19:14:39 UTC by abbadon

Hi you all. Maybe this will disappoint or makes someone sad, but it's a decission that I have meditated for almost a month, overall after seeing what happened to other mod developers. I did read information about copyright matters...

https://bethesda.net/community/topic/58063/mods-based-on-copyright-material-things-to-know-before-you-make-a-request-or-download-a-mod/21?page=2
http://mttlr.org/2012/11/06/gaming-mods-and-copyright/
http://mttlr.org/2012/09/27/video-games-and-intellectual-property-chrono-trigger-fan-remakes-and-copyright-protection/
https://m.slashdot.org/story/15346

Among others, and decided that the risks do not worth the pleasure I found creating this mod. So I decided to cancel its forthcoming and future public release and keep it as a private project.

I must left clear that I was not foxed not threatened by anyone, WB did not sent me a cease-and-desist letter, so I am not in the edge of the razor, but according to laws in USA I could find myself in trouble if they twist the things.

I am sure I did no harm to anyone with this Mod, but even though I feel the need to make it disappear from public's sight. I did it today, so I am almost sure that very few material will be available. The v1.0 is no longer on servers afaik.

Sorry if someone wanted to play it. As a personal project I will continue with its last stages of development, so I'll keep asking things here at Twhl.

See you!

Sorry to hear it, but still it's your decision to keep up with development and releasing or not. Good to hear that you're going to continue it as a private project, maybe one day you'll change your mind and release it (not mentioning fun that comes with development).

I hope to see more of your projects here, Zion Warcry was a great work!

Good luck, i totally understand that reason. I did the same for a alien vs predator themed svencoop map that was done, but I dislike to release it because of copyrights...

Sorry to hear that, i hope you'll still finish the project for yourself, it'd be a shame to waste all that effort.

Thanks people. It will be finished, in fact, I still make questions about finishing it, the last I did was about the bots here At Twhl. In case I recive a c&d letter, which It never happen in the last 10 years, I will give all material to them and let'em decide what to do with it. This mod is a tribute, you know.

I played a bunch of CT fangames back in the day, and they were VERY good.

you know i never understood why big companies want to sue and/or threaten random fans for making a FREE game. This is a real fear because in the past, big companies actually DID sue random fans for this. What do they possibly stand to gain from shutting down a FREE fangame? Probably nothing. So I think they feel threatened by it in some manner. But what would that be?

Personally, I must say that WB did not send me a c&d letter, for this, I must say that they are acting very gentle with me. The problem is me and all the threads in forums about lawsuits chasing mods and their creators. If we consider how bad Matrix path of Neo and Enter the Matrix games were selled, and how bad are the critics about Matrix Revolutions, I think my mod did not any harm. More than that, It revives the interest of the Matrix fans about the Matrix games, at least is what I can guess for the commentaries about the mod and the requests for a sooner release. :/ I repeat, I will give them all the material if requested, I don't care, the (c) of all the contents is theirs, except the material created from zero (the corp's descripción, the background story, the name of the hardware, and a few other things), only I wish they will release the game (the things left undone are just a matter of one month of work), buying a goldsource license and making very few changes to it (contract Solokiller, for all god's sake, he have already done almost all work for free).

Wishful Thinking Mode:ON

I don't want to be misunderstood, I love the Matrix trilogy, I consider all of the three movies a classic of SciFi, I have all of them and its merchandising, the games, OST... If I could I will tell WB about this!. So this game covers the most claimed scene of the third movie, of wich many fans talk and make content about (the APU overall).

you know i never understood why big companies want to sue and/or threaten random fans for making a FREE game.

The problem is that with US trademark law, one of the rules of keeping a trademark is that you have to actively defend it. So when the legal team comes across a popular mod, they fear over whether or not this could jeopardize the trademark and throw cease & desists at it.

You're 100% right. So even before this situarion will happen I auto-cease-and-desist.