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 shortly admitted that this had by some means 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 “below moderation evaluation” on Nexus Mods since March 29, following a DMCA issued towards 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 got here out earlier this 12 months.
“Defending your IP will be difficult 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 the very best decision of a shitty state of affairs that the modders may 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 strategy of fixing that now so followers and the Stardew neighborhood can proceed to take pleasure in this nice mod!”
Okay, cool. The excellent news is that the matter appears to have been handled uber-swiftly, with the mod having change into out there to obtain once more 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 staff, for remark.
In the meantime, upon seeing WoTC admit its mistake, Vincke tweeted: “An excellent ending. Glad for Xun, Kawaner, Yudeling, Haruka, and Sirris. I hope they get to develop much more of it. And likewise good on WOTC for fixing this swiftly.”
I am going to second that, because the modders behind Baldur’s Village have created one thing actually cool and it’d have been a very large personal objective for Wizards if it had ended up completely sniping a ardour challenge being distributed at no cost through probably the most harmful spell of all of them – Lionel Hutz’s telephone 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 which may characteristic some bear intercourse 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 reside on? Tell us beneath!
