Activision files DMCA to remove game ORION from Steam due to weapon art

The PC Master Race reddit thread is pretty fucking insane (that autism power, I suppose) but they do provide a lot of good information, especially how this isnt' the dev's first time trying to be a sneaky douche..

http://archive.is/HWqKs

My favorite part is the dev threatening the OP with legal action, then when he's called on it publicly posting this "proof" he was hacked:


Russia (not even named Russian Federation which would be the correct name), on verizon, on a local IP. Can't make this shit up. The whole thread is just a master-class of bad PR and fuckery.

I got the game at summer sale for .49c and refunded it, fuck this dev.

edit: Also didn't undertstand the appeal of the game when I played it. You could do top down rts style, 3rd or first, but every game mode was the exact same. Waves of shitty monters that either did nothing or 1 hit you. Dinosaurs are magnets for retards with a whole 1$ to spend I guess.
 
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So today apparently the blame is starting to get pointed on the artist who, according to various steam and reddit posts, pretty much just goes ham outsourcing/ripping art and taking credit for it. This post came up as more and more art rips were being found.

According to Dave (the Orion owner guy), Activision privately sent him more direct proof of rips which (take this with a grain of salt, as this is coming from a guy who had a meltdown and tried to make it a persecution case against himself) all came from his 3d artist, who promised to fix it then "went quiet"

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/4qsa8q/orion_devs_rip_section_8_convoy/d4vwiqb

http://archive.is/YpXf2

If you browse the comments there's a lot of interesting info about the artist.

Apparently David in his infinite vidya game CEO wisdom decided "Maybe I should do a background check on my staff to make sure they aren't thieving scum" wasn't a top priority.

I still don't regret refunding a game I paid 49c for, as I think none of this excuses him at all.

The artist being blamed (Bin Le/Tin Le) is trying to nuke his shit off the internet at the moment, so... curious.

Of course take this with a grain of salt, who the fuck knows whats true, you can't really 100% trust anything from LE REDDIT or David in my opinion. I just don't have a life and sit on reddit a lot while playing wow and saw this update.
 
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autisticdragonkin said:
I played ORION earlier today and you can barely see the guns in gameplay
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Yea, I noticed that too. Did you play in first person though? Tbh i got distracted by the loud as fuck "escort ship" and god awful dinosaur attacks. It's f1 to change views. I only clocked about 29 minutes on it before I gave up out of sheer annoyance.
 
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The shameless Turok 64 box art achievement is to me where the rubber hits the road in terms of stolen assets. How cheap.
 
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Something to understand is this sort of shit happens constantly. Devs have a history of outright taking assets from other games. Especially smaller ones.

There was a notorious incident that occurred where Bethesda sued an indie dev for taking assets from Oblivion
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The sad part is it's really not hard to do. A lot of games are really easy to just rip the textures and models from. I know how to do it using a program called Dxtory.

This happens so often that a lot of the time people don't even notice. It's to the point where I get the feeling Activision did this solely to make an example out of them to prevent other indie devs from doing the same thing.

The unfortunate reality is there's always a victim when a dev takes content they didn't make. The original artists don't get credited and their work is plagiarized. And the artists who did plagiarize very often get hired from art that they did not actually create. To me a game developer ripping assets for his game is the same as a professional artist tracing all of his art. It's a crutch a greedy impatient artist does and it's never justifiable.

Anyway in this instance I blame Orion the most. I get the sense they were working with very low funds and outsourced artists that were absurdly cheap with a portfolio that was too good to be true.
 
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Watcher said:
Something to understand is this sort of shit happens constantly. Devs have a history of outright taking assets from other games. Especially smaller ones.

There was a notorious incident that occurred where Bethesda sued an indie dev for taking assets from Oblivion
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limbo of the lost stole from EVERYONE
it has a wiki
it's not about the plot or the characters
it's all about what the game stole
 
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