This was a wild fucking ride. The rundown:
>Original Pixelmon C&D was fake
>"Protected" the mod under some shady copyright in New Zealand that remains untouched
>Steal other peoples' free / open source code and monetize it as plugins priced over $100
>Threaten anyone that dares touch their stolen assets with lawsuits and routinely advises community to get a lawyer (kids game btw)
>Devs backpedal the subtitle in order to establish themselves as the "true" Pokemon Minecraft mod, stirring up drama in Discord because of course they would
>Charge Minecraft server owners up to $2,000 a month and more to stay at the top of their "recommended" server list
>Blacklist anyone that tries to drive prices down or fix the mod
>Devs run blatantly pay-2-win servers themselves
July 10: Reforged
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July 17: Erased
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All of this over a block game, and they apparently make so much money from this scam that they live off of it. Seems like a massive slap in the face to the fan projects that actually get taken down.
Pixelmon takedown was fake
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>They literally just repackage free plugins for money
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The more I look into it the worse it gets.
>pixeldevs a shit
this is nothing new. people paying attention have pointed out that the letter they allegedly got never made any sense, less so when they up and decided to come back under a different name doing the same garbage
>>Threaten anyone that dares touch their stolen assets with lawsuits and routinely advises community to get a lawyer (kids game btw)
does anyone know where this took place?
pixelmon devs have always been incompetent scumbags, imagine being such fucking faggots that mojang have to call you out for inserting code for disabling servers
Maybe it was fake for the original, but it should be real for the reforged team :)
I hate Nintendo's legal team, but this group has been such a tumor to the pokemon playerbase that it unironically deserves a C&D.
Everyone email a complaint to
piracyscene AT noa DOT nintendo DOT com
Also they actively obfuscate their code between updates to fuck with sidemod devs they don't approve of.
it was even worse than that. They STILL have a shutdown switch for specific UUIDs even after all this time.
Sidemod dev Lypaka was hit with this because they made stuff for both Reforged and Generations. Now they own a Reforged server and can't even log into it because their main account's client just won't load.
can we get a normal fucking pixelmon version that doesn't have stupid drama
It's called Cobbled and even Generations is allegedly opening their source for 1.18 since it's been written from the ground up. The only reason Reforged is doing this stunt and going back to just "Pixelmon" is because all of their devs have left to other mods that aren't literal ticking time bombs because of how they lock down their code and monetize it.
>cobbled
oh god... the cobblekangs are taking over pixelmon itself now
oh no the rockniggers are winning
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>It's FOSS
Oh god and they're WINNING
was I the only cobblekang who stuck to mostly steel, rock, or ground pokemon when Any Forumsixelmon was up
what is the alternative video game to pokemon for the person who hates fairies, hates dragons, hates Nintendo, hates RPG's and hates anything that looks like pokemon
Callofduty
There's unironically no excuse not to take the cobblepill. They've got /ourguys/ in it reigning in the autism and anyone else that wanted to make their own version can because open source.
Trusting the Pixelmon devs at all was a mistake. Of course they're still pulling the same malicious code bullshit and turning what was once a passion project into a business, that's literally what they've always done. Enjoy your "sus" Amoonguss I guess.
first for fuck pig
Fortnite unironically.
when will the mod become public
>Ourguys
Please say Village.
>when will the mod become public
You can track the code, mess with it, and play it with the link posted
If you mean like a full release that they have uploaded idk but according to the head dev soon