The ethics of people on these sites has always fascinated me.
Since the people who use this site are basically like the rest of the people in the world, their ethics are like other people's - meaning that they vary from person to person. You're no more likely to find a uniform morality here than anywhere else, so why comment on "ethics of people on these sites", as if you could narrow them down in any way?
For some, stealing goes all the way to using the same model and name as another game, for others it doesn't.
As for full on IP stealing there is plenty on this site, have you never played nor liked any?
I download the games here which have developers who are active on this forum, or who have otherwise sanctioned people playing the in-development versions of their games without paying, such as developers who release "public versions". And if I like the game or the developer enough, then I put my money up.
Are you saying you don't do the same? You mean that you steal people's hard work and give them nothing for it?
Also, I'm pretty sure the creators of Batgirl and Hermione never intended them to become sluts in a porn game. But then neither do the devs of those games intend to give them a follow up story as originally intended. They take a character and imagine a different story in an alternate world.
That's what that would be if someone picked this one up.
This is a form of logical fallacy known as a false equivalency. The two things you describe are not the same. They are very different. For someone to pick up this game, and try to carry on from where DRG left off, keeping the existing content intact, and using the same characters and the same storyline up to here would be, at best, plagiarism, and at worst, outright theft of intellectual property.
On the other hand, for someone to make a porn parody of Batgirl or Hermione or Wonder Woman or Lara Croft or whomever-the-fuck-you-please, is not theft in the same sense. It is parody, and there is a very clear legal doctrine in place which allows for parody, but not for theft of intellectual property. See any of the various legal cases which prove the point, if you actually don't understand the difference.
as an aside that may be clearer, you also have no idea if the original creator's story would have remained to your liking.
That's absolutely right. I have no idea whether or not I would have liked where DRG took the game from here. I never suggested otherwise.
Only considering that someone else's will be different without thinking it could also be better, sounds like being too scared of change. I wonder if your love of the game hasn't gone too far.)
I never said that no one could possibly do it better, although I very much doubt that they could. What I said is that this story and these characters, and the digital assets involved, belong to DRG, and no one else has the right to take them and use them as they see fit.
Scared of change? Why should I be scared of change. Opposed to theft? Yeah, I am.
No, I don't think my "love of the game" has gone too far. I don't cry in my Cheerios every morning because this game was abandoned. Nor do I lose any sleep over it. It's a shame, to be sure, but life is filled with disappointment.
And 4-5-6 are still awesome!
