Update: Wizards of the Coast Apologizes for 'Mistaken' DMCA on Fan's Baldur's Gate 3 Stardew Valley Mod

Update 2:30pm PT: Wizards of the Coast has issued a connection connected the DMCA from earlier today, saying that it happened successful mistake and apologizing for the situation:

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

At the clip of this update, the mod was inactive nether review, but it seems apt this volition beryllium rectified shortly.

Original communicative continues below:

Wizards of the Coast has issued a DMCA takedown announcement connected a instrumentality mod of Stardew Valley that adds Baldur's Gate 3 characters, contempt the mod antecedently having been publically praised by Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke. And now, Vincke has responded to the takedown arsenic well.

As reported by PC Gamer, the mod successful question is entitled "Baldur's Village" and incorporates Baldur's Gate 3 characters into Stardew Valley. The mod released earlier this month, and soon after, Vincke took to Twitter to praise it, saying "So overmuch emotion went into this - astonishing work!"

Unfortunately, conscionable weeks later, the mod is gone. According to a Nexus Mods spokesperson speaking t PC Gamer, Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate IP holder Wizards of the Coast has issued a DMCA takedown of the mod. "Hopefully, this is an oversight from WotC, who often usage outer agencies to hunt down violating content, and they volition revert their decision," said the spokesperson. "Fingers crossed for Baldur's Village."

Then, conscionable today, Vincke commented connected the concern again connected Twitter, erstwhile again expressing enactment for the mod portion acknowledging that IP extortion is tricky:

Protecting your IP tin beryllium tricky but I bash anticipation this gets settled. There are bully ways of dealing with this.

"Free prime instrumentality mods highlighting your characters successful different crippled genres are impervious your enactment resonates and a unsocial signifier of connection of mouth," helium said. "Imho they shouldn't beryllium treated similar commercialized ventures that infringe connected your property. Protecting your IP tin beryllium tricky but I bash anticipation this gets settled. There are bully ways of dealing with this."

It's imaginable this is portion of a larger crackdown from Wizards of the Coast astir Baldur's Gate. As we learned astatine the Game Developers Conference earlier this month, we're supposedly going to perceive much astir what the institution has planned for the IP "in beauteous abbreviated order", truthful possibly this escaped Stardew Valley mod was someway successful struggle with that. Or possibly it was a mistake that volition rapidly beryllium rectified. We've reached retired to Wizards of the Coast for comment.

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