Late yesterday, information broke that Baldur’s Village – the cool Stardew Valley mod with a city stuffed with Baldur’s Gate 3 characters – had been hit by a DMCA takedown from BG IP proprietor Wizards of the Coast. Fortunately, WoTC rapidly admitted that this had someway occurred by mistake, and the mod’s now again up so that you can obtain.
PC Gamer observed that the mod had been listed at “underneath moderation overview” on Nexus Mods since March 29, following a DMCA issued in opposition to it by Wizards of the Coast. Naturally, this prompted loads of backlash, together with a tweet from Larian CEO Swen Vincke, who’d beforehand stated the he thought the mod was neat when it came out earlier this year.
“Defending your IP will be tough however I do hope this will get settled,” the BG3 bossman wrote in response to the takedown information, “There are good methods of coping with this.” Fortunately, what’s transpired since that time appears to be like to be the most effective decision of a shitty state of affairs that the modders might have hoped for, with WoTC issuing an announcement to PC Gamer which learn as follows:
“The Baldur’s Village DMCA takedown was issued mistakenly — we’re sorry about that. We’re within the means of fixing that now so followers and the Stardew group can proceed to get pleasure from this nice mod!”
Okay, cool. The excellent news is that the matter appears to be like to have been handled uber-swiftly, with the mod having develop into available to download again on Nexus Mods as of early this morning UK time, hopefully an indication that every thing behind the scenes has additionally been resolved amicably in brief order.
VG247 has reached out to XunHe1145, the primary developer on the Baldur’s Village workforce, for remark.
In the meantime, upon seeing WoTC admit its mistake, Vincke tweeted: “An excellent ending. Joyful for Xun, Kawaner, Yudeling, Haruka, and Sirris. I hope they get to develop much more of it. And in addition good on WOTC for fixing this swiftly.”
I will second that, because the modders behind Baldur’s Village have created one thing actually cool and it’d have been a very large personal purpose for Wizards if it had ended up completely sniping a ardour challenge being distributed at no cost by way of probably the most harmful spell of all of them – Lionel Hutz’s cellphone name of legal professionals. Hopefully it isn’t disrupted the modders an excessive amount of both, as they have been busy engaged on bringing a Halsin romance arc that might feature some bear sex to their creation.
Are you glad to see the state of affairs with Baldur’s Village and Wizards of The coast seemingly come to an finish with the mod being allowed to dwell on? Tell us under!