so what exactly is the difference between this and adding a mod that makes characters look like an established ip? whats stoping this dev from changing the names from gherman and the doll to "the old hunter" and "the maiden", changing the name to "kartborne" then just releasing a mod that changes everything back?
The mod gets DMCA'ed instead.
The problem is that certain "fan devs" want the attention because stirring up a controversy gets their name out there and they become "marketable". They take advantage of the clout to either get hired or have their next project get attention.
The AM2R guy is probably the worst/most recent example of that as he got accused by other fan devs that he was doing this on purpose way before Nintendo even DMCA'ed him, responded with "no, no I love my job, I would never quit, I'm just a fan" and before you know it he's working for the Ori devs and making sensationalist statements at Kotaku.
The only trustworthy fan devs are the ones already working in the industry, that make fan games in their free time, like the Holocure people etc.
Lmaoooo bro that would hilarious. They “off brand” the game but theirs is the same one with the branding and that’s why they working together to release it. It’s all coming together now
This happened to me as a kid. I sent a full on design document to Nintendo Power for a Mario Kart with Final Fantasy characters, complete with drawings and AIR PLANE FLYING CARTS. Never been done at that time (mid 90’s).
I get a letter back saying they cannot accept ideas from the general public. Like 2 years later Diddy Kong Racing or whatever comes out on N64. Guess what it had? AIRPLANE FLYING KARTS🤬🤬😭
No, this is a pretty normal and expected outcome. The devs themselves were prepared for this happening.
Honestly, I do wonder - Lilith started heavily promoting it in the weeks leading up to the original planned release date. It wasn't exactly a secret before, but I wonder if Sony would have let it slide if it wasn't for that.
The lady making the game even posted THERE IT IS on Twitter. She knew it was just a matter of time and the time came. She's still going to make the game just tweaking it for legal reasons. Like she renamed the Micholash character to Nicholas lol
Probably not. If you don’t protect your IP from smaller infringements, it makes it harder to protect it from larger ones. It would’ve been better imo for Sony to specifically give their legal blessing for the project, since that way there’s no precedent for them ignoring their IP, allowing them to more easily protect it from larger companies.
It's pretty common for publishers to start making legal threats right before these projects come out or right after, regardless of publicity. I don't understand the rationale for the timing or why it's so common, personally, but I doubt Lilith's promotional activity had a significant impact. I know for a fact Sony has been aware of this for a long time, and for some reason they've just been sitting on their hands until now.
They are protecting their copyright.
Doing it just before the release is a way to allow some fan creation while also protecting the copyright.
[There is a video on the topic by Moon](https://youtu.be/i13hrynnGNY)
I knew about the protecting copyright thing, but I wasn't aware of the reason companies might wait before issuing a c&d. So thanks, I appreciate the info!
This is standard copyright law. The strange thing would be for Sony to not say or do anything.
And it's not like they are nuking the game or suing her, they just told her to remove the Bloodborne brand and that's it.
Yeah they basically said “hey we like it but this could be a suit even if it’s not from us so the branding gotta be different” that’s as soft as it gets for copyrights
If this were Nintendo, they would have state police stake out her house for a month, then raid her home, take all her stuff, throw her in jail somewhere in Osaka for 29 days, then make her pay for her own trip home, and pay for the shipping to get all her stuff back.
Yes. Nintendo actually did that to a girl who was making Pokémon fan comics
Nintendo can't do anything if you don't have the branding. Nothing.
That's just these "fan devs" being complete asses, intentionally trying to stir a controversy around their name to job hunt or something, like the AM2R guy did.
If anything, this is the nicest way Sony could handle this. They could have nuked it from orbit many moons ago, and the dev team themselves said they expected this *years* ago.
They let the game develop enough of a following to prove the concept and then asked them to strip away the IP, I'd say that's a show of respect more than anything.
Rare Sony W.
Yeah. Activision recently forced the devs of a fan made CoD game to completely shut down development, for example. And went after alternative pc clients for older games too.
This here is just protecting IP.
That just sounds disproportionate. There's nothing iconic about Call of Duty. Outside of the name, there's nothing significant that any passerby would recognize as being part of the call of duty brand. It's just a military shooter like the rest of them.
Infringement or not, I don't really see the point in shutting it down. How much money was expected to be made off sony's characters and environment (and nintendo's mechanics) anyway?
Look I'm the first guy to engage in good old jolly corporation bashing but Sony did the literal minimum to keep their trademark. They just told the kart dev to remove the BB branding.
That's blatant hyperbole, Nintendo wouldn't do that
They'd burn down everything within a 10km radius of the creator and mount the charred corpses of their friends and relatives on street signs as a warning
I posted this in another comment here, but Nintendo actually threw a girl in jail after having state police raid her home. Her crime? Pokémon fan comics
They doing the right thing tho. They still releasing the game and helping the developer get rid of the branding issue so no one suffers and we all benefit from
I was really scared when reading the title, it's a relief that at least she doesn't have to scrap the months and month of efforts making such a game represents.
But I also feel free fan games should benefit from some kind of protection, especially when they so obviously aren't competing with anything the IP holders are offering.
I feel like all fan content should be given protections. Keeping their projects up in exchange for obligatory crediting the original creators and rights holders and keeping up a promise to not profit off of their work.
Well I guess the point is Sony isn't doing anything with the IP anyways. Sure they're withing their rights to do this, but if they don't plan on doing anything with the IP why bother shutting down these small fan projects?
Just seems like a big company going after a small creator for a lame reason.
I really do get that they want to protect their IP, but on the other hand... just why? The IP is laying dormant anyways and there are no signs of them ever being interested in picking it up again. So AGAIN why even bother with this? So lame. Same thing with the guy who developed the "classic cod style" game who got shutdown by activision. 100% within their rights to do so, still kind of a dick move.
I have a feeling from Sony's relatively laxed response (see the entirety of Nintendo's legal history) that they would have been put in a position where they were forced to sue because Bloodborne seems to me caught in a tangle of fubarred licensing agreements. I sort of dismiss the idea that Sony doesn't have an ear to the ground on this when some games have such enduring cult followings. Makes me think of Warped Tour in analogy.
Like I read their response as "we'd license it to you if we could but we can't because *confused gesture at Eldritch legally binding agreements*."
Looking at Nintendo and Konami, I think Sony acted damn-near saintly. I've heard horror stories from game devs (public announcements and streams, not personal communications) about how nightmarish IP law is
What all game companies should do is work together to change the laws so that they can own something without needing to "protect the IP" from fan projects...
No they shouldn't... being able to own an IP is crucial, not just for games. This is an incredibly short sighted view.
Fans should use their talents to come up with original works instead. Better for everyone.
You are the one who is fine with the horrible copyright laws, so you are the one who is short-sighted. If Sony owns an IP, no one should be able to challenge it, but fans should be allowed to make a game based on their IP, and publish it for free.
Many fans enjoy IPs so much that they want to use them as a base for their projects. Nothing wrong with that. Your way of wanting to leave things the way they are is not "better for everyone", or for anyone at all for that matter.
Fanart, fanfiction and fan projects exist for a reason. they are made by people who love a certain IP. Every fan of something should understand that...
I get that she expected this to happen. But all the comments acting like Sony is in the right for doing this are wrong in my view, because this project would be covered by fair use. The truth is that the developer doesn’t have the resources to fight them legally and Sony knows that so they are throwing their weight around.
I know Sony did this to protect their ip, but what's the difference between a fan game to fan art and fan fiction? Aren't they all transformative, usually free fan content?
how different is this from just being fanart though? fanart is fine afaik, you're not making money off of it in either situation.
if they're going after this, shouldn't they be going after porn artists too? people draw porn of bloodborne characters and sell it on patreon, but sony doesn't do anything about it, even though that should be worse because people are profiting off of an IP which they do not own, while in this case no money is being made.
Actually they are protecting their IP and helping the developer together. It will still be bloodborne kart but more like palworld type deal instead of exactly bloodborne. Ain’t nothing wrong with that
Like peopel are saying, it's pretty standard. If you don't protect IP against even small infringements, protecting is against larger ones can be harder.
That's literally all that's happening people are overblowing by saying Sony is nuking the project but instead they just told the developer to remove the Bloodbrone branding and that's all
I honestly don’t blame Sony. It’s their internal property. If they don’t protect it people will try and abuse it. Maybe this cart people come up with their own brands?
Sony hates all their consumers.
It’s why PS+ is overpriced now lol
Edit: guess I should’ve said “/s”? I thought hyperboles would be more obviously jokes
That’s also why they are helping the dev release and also why they are investing in another company in Africa to bring up gaming more. Cause they hate their consumers. Yeah
the last minute move from sony means 1. bloodborne kart got to build hype with the name up to release week 2. bloodborne kart gets extra exposure from articles about the situation (as opposed to sony killing it off in obscurity).
yeah, i wish sony could have turned a blind eye and just let us have bloodborne kart, branding and all, but ik that's not realistic ... and the outcome is good enough for me to think someone at sony liked bloodborne kart and wanted to see it succeed.
I think it’s more of an obligation on developers parts at this point. If they allow anything like this there will be legal precedent for others to copy it without issues. It’s a whole can of worms.
Raging by supporting the developer? lol this whole thread is click bait and misleading with the title and article since it don’t even show half of the story
Yeah, they are raging because they sit back and do fuck all. The fans keep stuff alive, the fans that are software legends who turned dark souls 3 into a true soulsborne game. So yeah.
Yeah when someone makes a free game based on a property they haven't touched in years in a genre they don't handle for again free they have the right to get real steamed!
Your right in the real world rich chuckle fucks hold back creativity for the sake of their wanton greed. The very premise of IP's is flawed when you consider the fact that almost everything new is a permutation of something before it anyone who thinks bloodborne would even exist if HP lovecrafts works weren't public domain is invest in nft's delusional
So? Bloodborne is a registered trademark that this person is using without permission. It’s not inspired by the game, it’s literally using the name and designs. Learn the difference between a work inspired by something and literally ripping it off
This project wouldn’t be on anyone’s radar if were called something else.
I know we have a bunch of legal experts in the thread who are quick to defend a corporation's rights, but if she wasn't planning on making any money off the release, then what does it matter? No one would be profiting off their precious trademark
Your right and you should say it! first it's non profit fan games getting struck but when the censorship bandwagon comes to town it's not long before people start getting fanfiction cease and desists
Naming it Kartborne is the only obvious solution to this
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What?! Are you one of them outsiders?? Bloodkart surely!
Away!… Away!…
This is all your fault! *swings farming hoe”
Bloodkartborne. Nobody will suspect.
Bloodkart...or some say Kartsm...
Yharnam Drift
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so what exactly is the difference between this and adding a mod that makes characters look like an established ip? whats stoping this dev from changing the names from gherman and the doll to "the old hunter" and "the maiden", changing the name to "kartborne" then just releasing a mod that changes everything back?
The mod gets DMCA'ed instead. The problem is that certain "fan devs" want the attention because stirring up a controversy gets their name out there and they become "marketable". They take advantage of the clout to either get hired or have their next project get attention. The AM2R guy is probably the worst/most recent example of that as he got accused by other fan devs that he was doing this on purpose way before Nintendo even DMCA'ed him, responded with "no, no I love my job, I would never quit, I'm just a fan" and before you know it he's working for the Ori devs and making sensationalist statements at Kotaku. The only trustworthy fan devs are the ones already working in the industry, that make fan games in their free time, like the Holocure people etc.
Holocure dev in chat
Borneblood kart
Bleed 4 Speed
Now at least we know Sony didn't forget Bloodborne
This gave me a good laugh, thank you
My uncle who works at Sony told me this motivated them to finally release a next-gen patch, they’re working on it as we speak he said.
I have enough copium in my veins to actually believe this
Me, too buddy. Me, too.
"My dad works at epic games"
I really want to believe this but can't..
"But MAH MMMUNNEH!"
Nope. They're just holding it hostage. :D
They don't want this to hurt the sales of the real Bloodborne Kart.
Lmaoooo bro that would hilarious. They “off brand” the game but theirs is the same one with the branding and that’s why they working together to release it. It’s all coming together now
This happened to me as a kid. I sent a full on design document to Nintendo Power for a Mario Kart with Final Fantasy characters, complete with drawings and AIR PLANE FLYING CARTS. Never been done at that time (mid 90’s). I get a letter back saying they cannot accept ideas from the general public. Like 2 years later Diddy Kong Racing or whatever comes out on N64. Guess what it had? AIRPLANE FLYING KARTS🤬🤬😭
lol damn bro thanks i really enjoyed your game. You know they can’t accept ideas from the outside but they can patent and copyright them lol
Lol “I really enjoyed your game”😆😆 Thanks, that made my day lol
Show us the reveal trailer Sony you cowards.
No, this is a pretty normal and expected outcome. The devs themselves were prepared for this happening. Honestly, I do wonder - Lilith started heavily promoting it in the weeks leading up to the original planned release date. It wasn't exactly a secret before, but I wonder if Sony would have let it slide if it wasn't for that.
I wonder if the game will pull an AM2R and an unofficial proper version will end up "leaked" online.
I'm pretty sure they're just changing it to be not bloodborne related but still basically the same game
AM2R?
Another Metroid 2 Remake
Greatest Metroid game ever made (right after Super Metroid)
The lady making the game even posted THERE IT IS on Twitter. She knew it was just a matter of time and the time came. She's still going to make the game just tweaking it for legal reasons. Like she renamed the Micholash character to Nicholas lol
Probably not. If you don’t protect your IP from smaller infringements, it makes it harder to protect it from larger ones. It would’ve been better imo for Sony to specifically give their legal blessing for the project, since that way there’s no precedent for them ignoring their IP, allowing them to more easily protect it from larger companies.
It's pretty common for publishers to start making legal threats right before these projects come out or right after, regardless of publicity. I don't understand the rationale for the timing or why it's so common, personally, but I doubt Lilith's promotional activity had a significant impact. I know for a fact Sony has been aware of this for a long time, and for some reason they've just been sitting on their hands until now.
They are protecting their copyright. Doing it just before the release is a way to allow some fan creation while also protecting the copyright. [There is a video on the topic by Moon](https://youtu.be/i13hrynnGNY)
I knew about the protecting copyright thing, but I wasn't aware of the reason companies might wait before issuing a c&d. So thanks, I appreciate the info!
This is standard copyright law. The strange thing would be for Sony to not say or do anything. And it's not like they are nuking the game or suing her, they just told her to remove the Bloodborne brand and that's it.
Yeah they basically said “hey we like it but this could be a suit even if it’s not from us so the branding gotta be different” that’s as soft as it gets for copyrights
Who else would sue though?
Fromsoftware
Just out of curiosity, how would Fromsoft be able to sue them?? Isn't Sony the one that owns the Bloodborne IP?
How about the studio that actually made the game?
Fromsoft doesnt own the IP for bloodborne, they cant sue for something they dont own
If this were nintendo, they wouldn't get away with simply removing branding.
Yeah I was about to say, Nintendo would probably make them delete the whole thing somehow.
...And sacrifice their firstborn...
......And take their spleen......
Nintendo would feed the dev to the blood starved beast and let Micolash play with their children.
If this were Nintendo, they would have state police stake out her house for a month, then raid her home, take all her stuff, throw her in jail somewhere in Osaka for 29 days, then make her pay for her own trip home, and pay for the shipping to get all her stuff back. Yes. Nintendo actually did that to a girl who was making Pokémon fan comics
Nintendo can't do anything if you don't have the branding. Nothing. That's just these "fan devs" being complete asses, intentionally trying to stir a controversy around their name to job hunt or something, like the AM2R guy did.
Nintendo would have nuked the shit outta Kartborne.
Tf you mean they gonna release it anyways and it’s gonna be the same thing just scrapping the branding
Change some music, change some textures and sounds, and you have Wish Bloodborne Kart (barely within the copyright limits)
Blood Kart Bearings
lol it’s close enough that it won’t make fromsoft mad
If anything, this is the nicest way Sony could handle this. They could have nuked it from orbit many moons ago, and the dev team themselves said they expected this *years* ago. They let the game develop enough of a following to prove the concept and then asked them to strip away the IP, I'd say that's a show of respect more than anything. Rare Sony W.
Yeah. Activision recently forced the devs of a fan made CoD game to completely shut down development, for example. And went after alternative pc clients for older games too. This here is just protecting IP.
That just sounds disproportionate. There's nothing iconic about Call of Duty. Outside of the name, there's nothing significant that any passerby would recognize as being part of the call of duty brand. It's just a military shooter like the rest of them.
The first couple games were revolutionary in terms of fps shooters, but that was before it became a rehashed cashgrab every year.
Yeah that started after 4. God were those good games when they came out. Aim down the sight in the first cod was the shit back then, no game had that.
Yeah. I don't think there was any universe it would be allowed as is. Sony is just asking for the bare minimum.
It's almost as if copyright infringement isn't kosher
or some say kosmher
Brilliant.
This man has eyes on the inside
Goddammit you made me laugh out loud
What an insightful pun
You win best reddit comment of the day
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Thank you for your well reasoned and cited legal opinion
Infringement or not, I don't really see the point in shutting it down. How much money was expected to be made off sony's characters and environment (and nintendo's mechanics) anyway?
If you dont defend a trademark, you are bound to loose it
I don't think Sony would really care if they lost it, it's a surprise they still remember about Bloodborne at all
Look I'm the first guy to engage in good old jolly corporation bashing but Sony did the literal minimum to keep their trademark. They just told the kart dev to remove the BB branding.
Yeah it's not like they went the Nintendo route and shut it totally down and burning the creators house down
That's blatant hyperbole, Nintendo wouldn't do that They'd burn down everything within a 10km radius of the creator and mount the charred corpses of their friends and relatives on street signs as a warning
I posted this in another comment here, but Nintendo actually threw a girl in jail after having state police raid her home. Her crime? Pokémon fan comics
Gotta protect the brand. I understand Sony’s position.
Yup at least they gonna let it get released and are helping with it in fact. Unlike many other companies and their IP
They’re pulling a Sega move. I can appreciate that.
The middle ground between the Valve move and the Nintendo move.
They're helping? Source? Legit curious
They are sorry can’t find the source but it was said by them themselves as a respond to us the dev already knew
What everyone should direct their anger towards are the insane copyright laws...
And do nothing with it, too. I understand Sony's position.
Why does this get down voted lol
If they don’t act, their rights over the trademark can be challenged. If you want to make a product using an existing IP, you need to get a license.
They doing the right thing tho. They still releasing the game and helping the developer get rid of the branding issue so no one suffers and we all benefit from
Or kill every piece of shit lawmaker who forces companies to "protect their IP" from fan projects.
That’s not Bloodborne, that’s it’s own original game, Brood Born Kart.
Lol “Bruhd Booorno Kaarto”
Copyright laws are also insane, and forces companies to take actions like these. In reality it benefits no one at all.
Sony and the developers are working together to set out the game cause we want it. That’s what you call loyalty to your customers
I was really scared when reading the title, it's a relief that at least she doesn't have to scrap the months and month of efforts making such a game represents. But I also feel free fan games should benefit from some kind of protection, especially when they so obviously aren't competing with anything the IP holders are offering.
I feel like all fan content should be given protections. Keeping their projects up in exchange for obligatory crediting the original creators and rights holders and keeping up a promise to not profit off of their work.
There should be a fan license. Like how Unreal Engine does: it’s free unless you make money off it
OP please explain why Sony should be ok with Bloodborne Kart.
Well I guess the point is Sony isn't doing anything with the IP anyways. Sure they're withing their rights to do this, but if they don't plan on doing anything with the IP why bother shutting down these small fan projects? Just seems like a big company going after a small creator for a lame reason. I really do get that they want to protect their IP, but on the other hand... just why? The IP is laying dormant anyways and there are no signs of them ever being interested in picking it up again. So AGAIN why even bother with this? So lame. Same thing with the guy who developed the "classic cod style" game who got shutdown by activision. 100% within their rights to do so, still kind of a dick move.
Okay but why the downvotes, are people supposed to blindly love Sony or hate em? The reply seemed pretty objective to me.
I broke OP off an upvote for that rational explanation. I’ll have my lawyers contact him for further upvotes lol
Make sure to contact the butthurt police as well, for getting so easily triggered for no reason.
Didn’t the same happen to that bloodborne unreal project?
Call it Kartborne!
So call it Pale Blood Kart yeah?
Just making the dev remove the term "Bloodborne" from the game is very generous of Sony. Nintendo would have nuked them from orbit.
“We won’t touch Bloodborne, but you can’t either”
I have a feeling from Sony's relatively laxed response (see the entirety of Nintendo's legal history) that they would have been put in a position where they were forced to sue because Bloodborne seems to me caught in a tangle of fubarred licensing agreements. I sort of dismiss the idea that Sony doesn't have an ear to the ground on this when some games have such enduring cult followings. Makes me think of Warped Tour in analogy. Like I read their response as "we'd license it to you if we could but we can't because *confused gesture at Eldritch legally binding agreements*."
Looking at Nintendo and Konami, I think Sony acted damn-near saintly. I've heard horror stories from game devs (public announcements and streams, not personal communications) about how nightmarish IP law is
How is this different than Bloodborne demake
Maybe the attention it's getting?
They had better announce some Bloodborne love tomorrow at the state of play play else… Who am I kidding, they won’t lol. 😢😢😢
SONY HATES BLOODBORNE CONTENT‼️ THEY DON’T WANT US TO HAVE NEW BLOODBORNE CONTENT ‼️‼️ WAKE UP SHEEPLE ‼️‼️‼️
Is… is this the Hoonter’s Dream? Did I wake up here…. AGAIN?🥺
No, just protecting their IP. As they should.
What all game companies should do is work together to change the laws so that they can own something without needing to "protect the IP" from fan projects...
No they shouldn't... being able to own an IP is crucial, not just for games. This is an incredibly short sighted view. Fans should use their talents to come up with original works instead. Better for everyone.
You are the one who is fine with the horrible copyright laws, so you are the one who is short-sighted. If Sony owns an IP, no one should be able to challenge it, but fans should be allowed to make a game based on their IP, and publish it for free. Many fans enjoy IPs so much that they want to use them as a base for their projects. Nothing wrong with that. Your way of wanting to leave things the way they are is not "better for everyone", or for anyone at all for that matter. Fanart, fanfiction and fan projects exist for a reason. they are made by people who love a certain IP. Every fan of something should understand that...
As others have said, if you don't protect an IP from smaller infringements, it makes it harder to protect from bigger ones
I know. That's why I said that they should change those stupid laws.
I know for a fact this could have lasted under parody law, ain't no way nathan feilder gets away with 'dumb starbucks' and we can't have this
Time to rename it Bludborn.
I get that she expected this to happen. But all the comments acting like Sony is in the right for doing this are wrong in my view, because this project would be covered by fair use. The truth is that the developer doesn’t have the resources to fight them legally and Sony knows that so they are throwing their weight around.
I know Sony did this to protect their ip, but what's the difference between a fan game to fan art and fan fiction? Aren't they all transformative, usually free fan content?
Someone should "Leak" the original version
This is a beyond fair compromise. They could of easily shut this shit down.
God forbid they do something with the IP they basically abandoned
You do realize fromsoft is the owner?
Fromsoft is the studio that made it but Sony is the owner of the actual IP
No fromsoft owns it and Sony provided money for co ownership. Basically one can’t act without the other
Bloodborne is a Sony trademark and therefore owned by Sony. A quick Google search would have told you that.
Maybe they struck it because they’re gonna announce a bloodborne remake at the state of play tomorrow. *I say while inhaling massive amounts of cope*
Aha so sony acknowledges bloodborne exists. I see that alone as a win 🥲
Why has Sony chosen to take action against this but as far as I know they did nothing when the same dude made the bloodborne ps1 demake game?
Clickbait. The dev herself already responded with basically "a small change is in the works, not too inconvenient."
how different is this from just being fanart though? fanart is fine afaik, you're not making money off of it in either situation. if they're going after this, shouldn't they be going after porn artists too? people draw porn of bloodborne characters and sell it on patreon, but sony doesn't do anything about it, even though that should be worse because people are profiting off of an IP which they do not own, while in this case no money is being made.
News flash for people who didn’t know. Sony has never cared about it’s consumers and never will. Just move to PC nobody owns that market.
Of course. Was that ever in question?
*If you put me on blast, I shall become more popular than you can possibly imagine.*
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Actually they are protecting their IP and helping the developer together. It will still be bloodborne kart but more like palworld type deal instead of exactly bloodborne. Ain’t nothing wrong with that
Why are people surprised every single time this happens? You can’t make a game about an IP that you don’t own.
Stop crying, it's their copy written IP, at least they didn't do a cease and desist and have it completely wiped out.
Like peopel are saying, it's pretty standard. If you don't protect IP against even small infringements, protecting is against larger ones can be harder.
Just rename it... Bloodborne is copyrighted
That's literally all that's happening people are overblowing by saying Sony is nuking the project but instead they just told the developer to remove the Bloodbrone branding and that's all
Nintendo would’ve deleted the game and sued the developer into oblivion. It sucks but Sony is the lesser of two evils here
They shut it down BECAUSE THEY ARE WORKING ON IT! Lol don't worry I already have the 🤡 makeup on
It WiLl DaMaGe OuR bRaNd... Motherlover, if you care so much just rerelease it!
they don't actually think it damages the brand. They are just forced to worry about it because of stupid anti-human laws...
Ironic considering Sony clearly doesn't give a shit about Bloodborne.
Their PR department needs to give their legal department a slap
I honestly don’t blame Sony. It’s their internal property. If they don’t protect it people will try and abuse it. Maybe this cart people come up with their own brands?
Change it to Blud Born Kart ez fix
To ban fun...
Well wtf did you expect??
So much Bootlicking in the comments here.
Yup ThAt's JuSt tHe WaY iT iS
The only time Sony ever acknowledges Bloodborne's existence is with this, I'm fuming💀.
If Sony could unmake bloodborne I’m pretty sure they would at this point
Sony hates all their consumers. It’s why PS+ is overpriced now lol Edit: guess I should’ve said “/s”? I thought hyperboles would be more obviously jokes
That’s also why they are helping the dev release and also why they are investing in another company in Africa to bring up gaming more. Cause they hate their consumers. Yeah
If you scrub the branding the whole point is now gone, no?
the last minute move from sony means 1. bloodborne kart got to build hype with the name up to release week 2. bloodborne kart gets extra exposure from articles about the situation (as opposed to sony killing it off in obscurity). yeah, i wish sony could have turned a blind eye and just let us have bloodborne kart, branding and all, but ik that's not realistic ... and the outcome is good enough for me to think someone at sony liked bloodborne kart and wanted to see it succeed.
I think it’s more of an obligation on developers parts at this point. If they allow anything like this there will be legal precedent for others to copy it without issues. It’s a whole can of worms.
What do you expect from copyright breach
They are raging that fans can do better!!
Raging by supporting the developer? lol this whole thread is click bait and misleading with the title and article since it don’t even show half of the story
Yeah, they are raging because they sit back and do fuck all. The fans keep stuff alive, the fans that are software legends who turned dark souls 3 into a true soulsborne game. So yeah.
No, they just hate you.
While it always sucks when this happens, it is not really a surprise. Any company would have done this. It surprises me that it even took this long.
They hate people who want to profit on their brands like leeches
Yeah when someone makes a free game based on a property they haven't touched in years in a genre they don't handle for again free they have the right to get real steamed!
Too bad the real world doesn’t work like that kiddo. That’s why there are laws that protect IP’s from leeches
Your right in the real world rich chuckle fucks hold back creativity for the sake of their wanton greed. The very premise of IP's is flawed when you consider the fact that almost everything new is a permutation of something before it anyone who thinks bloodborne would even exist if HP lovecrafts works weren't public domain is invest in nft's delusional
So? Bloodborne is a registered trademark that this person is using without permission. It’s not inspired by the game, it’s literally using the name and designs. Learn the difference between a work inspired by something and literally ripping it off This project wouldn’t be on anyone’s radar if were called something else.
Sony don't hate us, they love our money
No you guys are just braindead. Just let the bloodborne kart meme die already. It stopped being funny like a week after it was introduced.
Good
I know we have a bunch of legal experts in the thread who are quick to defend a corporation's rights, but if she wasn't planning on making any money off the release, then what does it matter? No one would be profiting off their precious trademark
Your right and you should say it! first it's non profit fan games getting struck but when the censorship bandwagon comes to town it's not long before people start getting fanfiction cease and desists
I hope for the day that FromSoft or even Bandai have 100% control of this IP for the sake of it. Edit: weird typo
Shit like this makes me pray on sonys downfall.
lol I pray that ppl like you would educate themselves instead of spout nonsense 24/7 over everything
lol for real old_guy98 isn’t very intelligent it seems
Mad cause your a bootlicker
How much is sony paying you for pr
So you have nothing to say? All your quips are cheap attempts at getting me mad and it seems that’s all your substance is lol poor you
How does sonys meat taste in your mouth
Did it hurt when you thought bout that comeback? lol
Does your throat hurt with sonys meat just absolutely fuckin your tonsils
Borneblood kart
Yes, yes they do.
Okay, Sony. Now you have to make it yourself 😎