The creator of the paid Starfield DLSS 3 Frame Generation mod, PureDark, has said that he will be placing “hidden mines” in his future mods.
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In an interview with IGN, ‘PureDark’ has now commented on his mod being cracked, and has said that future “hidden” mines will cause future mods to sometimes work, fail, crash, and whatnot.
“It was expected since it was something I put together within a day or two, but I did get enough patrons so it’s done its job”, the modder told IGN. “So from now on I will place hidden mines in all my mods to make it harder for these people. They might be able to find and bypass some of them, but they will never know if they have found all of them. The cracked mods will sometimes work, sometimes fail, sometimes work but [be] very wonky, sometimes even crash and they won’t even know if it’s a bug or just them using the cracked version, and they will never have the support I’ve been always providing to my subscribers.”
This guy is just greedy. I get you want to get something for your work. But they got $50,000 when this mod came out in income in a few days. There are better ways to do this.
Give it a week before the sorry.jpg is posted on Twitter.
Yeah, like power to the people who want to get paid for their work but its honestly probably insulting someone who implements a simple feature is likely going to be paid on par or more than some of the bloody game devs. Yes, you can have hangups on how Starfield is as a product since its a pretty fucking hollow product but it is still a miles wide ocean with a ton of effort put into it even though you can see so many missed opportunities. Having an extra 40k or 30k drop onto your lap is certainly not a life changing amount of money but a modder earning that much is a pretty unusual feat and getting mad at a few pirates seems a bit silly when its a 1 man operation that hammered it out in a few hours.