Sega encourages us to keep making great Sonic fangames

Crappy Blue · Sep 17, 2016

Chimera said:

Crappy Blue Luigi said:

You guys gotta realize that SoRR was a game that almost completely, if not entirely negated the need to play the original SoR2, along with providing a different, even arguably superior way to experience levels from SoR1 and SoR3. On top of that, it gained some notoriety from being in the works for so long, going through so many revisions, and being the only interesting thing going on with the Streets of Rage franchise in years, so it likely caught Sega's attention that way. That sort of thing takes a fan game from being supplementary to being perceived by companies as a threat to their ability to sell their product.
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Oh boy sounds like the AM2R situation :')

I'll echo what I said before. It's just bad business to take down projects like this as opposed to granting a liscence to the project and providing a low budget, or even giving them a royalty deal (i.e. royalties to a point or something if SEGA wants to be stingy fucks with their IP). If a publisher has no vested interest selling their product because thwy assume they'll lose money, and yet fans are interested in not only MAKING said product themselves, but actively SUPPORT this product... Doesn't it sound, uh, a bit wise to capitalize on what they now see as *a visible market?*

I won't fault SEGA for protecting their property. I will however fault them as I have Nintendo with Metroid for not doing jack shit with it. (in Metroids case, nothing the fans fucking asked for (especially if you look at how federation force started. Hint: the opposite of wolly world.))
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Oh yeah, in no way is that not a better outcome than tossing out DMCAs, just... I feel like people have always talked about the SoRR situation like there was no precedent for Sega to take it down. Right now, older game developers are putting their old games up for resale on new platforms all the time, and they expect to get a profit from that. It would be REAL COOL if that wasn't such a weirdly big focus for the market right now, but it's what they want to do, and it's gonna affect how they deal with fan projects like SoRR and AM2R.

I would absolutely pay for a Sega-endorsed/funded release of SoRR, and yeah, it would make their fan-game-approving sentiment much stronger.

Felik · Sep 18, 2016

I would absolutely pay for a Sega-endorsed/funded release of SoRR, and yeah, it would make their fan-game-approving sentiment much stronger.
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Speaking of which is it really so easy to do that? Typically fan projects of a big scale have a ton of people working on them at some point. You can't just toss a license to whoever is the project leader because said people can rightfully attempt to sue you for using their work without permission.
I don't know how Black Mesa project made it to have a commercial release but for example Dota franchise had to go through a lot of trouble.

Vitiman · Sep 18, 2016

Felik said:

Speaking of which is it really so easy to do that? Typically fan projects of a big scale have a ton of people working on them at some point. You can't just toss a license to whoever is the project leader because said people can rightfully attempt to sue you for using their work without permission.
I don't know how Black Mesa project made it to have a commercial release but for example Dota franchise had to go through a lot of trouble.
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Yeah uh, correct me if I'm wrong here (as I'm hardly an expert of the law) but I don't think it's as easy as some of you guys think. Don't get me wrong, I'd love for Sega to "officialize" promising fan projects, but I doubt it'd be worth the hassle for either party, ultimately.

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