Cyberpunk 2077 VR modder doesn't rule out releasing it for free after DMCA, claims there was "no negotiation" with CD Projekt

According to Luke Ross, piracy has led re-releasing the mod for escaped to "kind of go a moot point"

Following a mod which provides VR enactment for Cyberpunk 2077 was deed with a takedown petition by CD Projekt, its creator has present said that they've not ruled retired the anticipation of releasing it for free. However, they've painted that arsenic an improbable roadworthy to spell down, arguing that it's "kind of go a moot point" owed to piracy of their enactment pursuing the strike.

The information Luke Ross' R.E.A.L VR mod for Cyberpunk, which is 1 limb of a wider VR enactment model for a wide scope of games, was down a paywall appeared to beryllium the crux of CD Projekt's determination to onslaught it. The studio's concern improvement vice president Jan Rosner claimed successful a station that they offered Ross the enactment of making it escaped and switching the paywall for optional donations, successful enactment with their guidelines for fan-made content.

Speaking to IGN, Ross has present offered a spot much of their broadside of the story. According to the modder, they had "absolutely nary say" successful pulling the Cyberpunk VR mod from Patreon, alternatively claiming the level yanked it down automatically successful effect to the onslaught being filed. Ross said helium reached retired to CD Projekt to effort and "negotiate" with the workplace astir the takedown, to which helium alleges CD Projekt simply replied telling him helium needed to comply with their presumption of service.

There was "no negotiation, nary comments connected my proposals, nary involvement for lawsuit successful knowing however galore of their users would beryllium affected by the abrupt removal," according to the modder. Interestingly, Ross besides claims to person reached retired to CD Projekt backmost successful 2022 to inquire if the Cyberpunk developers would beryllium funny successful turning the mod into an authoritative VR larboard for the game, an connection the workplace declined according to the modder.

I've reached retired to CD Projekt for comment.

As for the concern arsenic it stands, Ross told IGN he's not ruled retired releasing the mod for free, but "it would instrumentality time, due to the fact that my bundle supports 40+ games and assorted wholly antithetic engines, which makes creating a mentation that specifically supports lone Cyberpunk 2077 a non-trivial task". The modder besides cited the imaginable for specified a determination not being fashionable with radical who've already paid to enactment their enactment connected the R.E.A.L VR framework.

"Anyway, it's benignant of go a moot point," Ross continued. "Because pursuing to the unexpected DMCA strike, aft the mod was forcibly removed from my Patreon, radical acrophobic of losing VR enactment for their favourite games person started pirating and illegally exchanging the mod each implicit the Internet, brazenly saying that since I was not complying with CDPR's presumption of service, my enactment is present just crippled and I should beryllium punished by having it stolen."

For now, it seems Ross' Cyberpunk VR mod is acceptable to stay taken down, and we'll person to spot whether successful the aftermath of alleged piracy and a disposable fig of antagonistic comments directed astatine the modder, they determine to alteration that further down the line.