Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike

Larian brag calls retired Wizards Of The Coast for treating escaped mods arsenic infringement

Dungeons & Dragons institution Wizards Of The Coast person apologised for "mistakenly" sending a ineligible takedown to the creator of a escaped Stardew Valley mod that adds a colony inspired by and featuring characters from Baldur's Gate 3. The mod has attracted praise from Larian CEO Swen Vincke, who was people a spot piqued erstwhile it was taken offline.

Published connected Nexus Mods connected 16th March, the Baldur's Village mod successful question was taken offline days aboriginal and placed "under moderation review". According to a Nexus Mods unit member, ineligible steadfast Reynolds Law PLLC sent a assertion of copyright infringement connected behalf of Wizards connected 27th March.

The mod has present been restored, pursuing a subordinate backlash, truthful spell up and wed pixelart Astarion arsenic you please. PCGamer besides person a connection from Wizards, who assertion the onslaught was 1 large whoopsie.

"The Baldur's Village DMCA takedown was issued mistakenly - we are atrocious astir that," it reads. "We are successful the process of fixing that present truthful fans and the Stardew assemblage tin proceed to bask this large mod!"

It's imaginable this has thing to bash with Vincke's involution yesterday. In a predictably fashionable station connected the Muskvine, helium wrote: "free prime instrumentality mods highlighting your characters successful different crippled genres are impervious your enactment resonates and a unsocial signifier of connection of mouth. Imho they shouldn't beryllium treated similar commercialized ventures that infringe connected your property.

"Protecting your [intellectual property] tin beryllium tricky but I bash anticipation this gets settled," Vincke continued. "There are bully ways of dealing with this."

For context, Larian person said successful their instrumentality contented argumentation that they're good with radical making mods based connected their games, arsenic agelong arsenic they springiness them distant for free, don't walk them disconnected arsenic Larian's ain work, and don't bash thing "inappropriate, offensive, damaging, oregon disparaging". Larian are not, however, the ineligible custodians of the Dungeons & Dragons satellite successful which Baldur's Gate 3 takes place.

The Baldur's Village mod is informally acceptable aft the Larian RPG's ending, truthful beware spoilers if you're readying to install. Again, it's free, though the modders bash tally a Patreon. Given capable involvement and crowdfunding, they anticipation to soma retired their chunk of the Forgotten Realms with further BG3 callbacks.

"Our adjacent absorption volition beryllium creating Halsin's romance storyline," the Nexusmod leafage FAQ explains. "Once completed, we volition displacement our attraction to expanding the mod's world-building, inheritance stories, and gameplay by introducing caller features and items."