Boycott Arma2 Until Bi support legitimate addon developers.

[Takko 10]

We all should calm down

Edited April 22, 2009 by Takko

[ShadowY 0]

I like this thread and I hope you all go on witchhunts :at647:

Edited April 22, 2009 by ShadowY

[Yoma 0]

Obviously BIS does what's within their powers to avoid addon makers's offspring to be abused.

This thread raises 3 questions:

-what are you frustrated about, what big abuse do you want fixed?

-how would you propose BIS avoid abuses? (big cryptography stuff might kill off a lot of new addons/discourage new addonmakers and hamper the community in general)

-how do other games handle this issue? (if at all)

No i will not boycot Arma2 in any way as that would be shooting myself in the foot.

[lwlooz 0]

Hello,

Say what?

I have huge respect of addon makers in general , and as far as the incident goes I feel sorry what happened to RKSL , but neither BIS or the community has to do anything here.

It is a purely personal matter which I think can be far more attributed some background politics and personal feud from what I can read than it is a general problem.

For that fact I can't remember one time where serious and respect parts of the community accepted or supported this type of bad spirited and in this case illegal behaviour.

This is the internet with horrible people. And to think that you could make addons for a gaming community and protect your IP 100% in a semi-professional or professional way is a bit of a too optimistic way to look at it. Either your a hobbyist who is proud of his work and can accept some people doing horrible things or you are a profesional modeller.

I hate to say this , but I figure the only way to fix this for the professionals involved in this and past incidents is to see if they can sell their stuff to BIS for the game.

Edited April 22, 2009 by lwlooz

[Binkowski 26]

BIS Made the game, therefore is sanctioned to anything that you produce. Read the MLOD License I highly doubt that the starter of this thread read the License agreement when he downloaded the BIS Sample MLOD's, if he even did.

Anyway, what is the point of this? BIS Has every right to use community made mods and addons, they made the bloody game.

[Rocco 0]

BIS is the greatest stealer of all, just check arma2 effects, those are reengineered Maddmatt Effects, SLX, ECS and DMSmokeEffects...

[adumb 0]

BIS is the greatest stealer of all, just check arma2 effects, those are reengineered Maddmatt Effects, SLX, ECS and DMSmokeEffects...

You can't be serious?

[Placebo 31]

http://forums.bistudio.com/misc.php?do=showrules

The truth is in there, not in the one-sided misquotings of certain aggrieved people. To say that we don't do anything about the issue is ludicrous and I find some of the accusations being thrown at me elsewhere insulting.