Quick Look | System Shock - 1 Remake (Pre-alpha Demo) (2017)
4Nightdive Studios a studio that made a uproar from a nasty controversy ... buying up the System Shock IP and the DMCA all fan mods that made SS1 and SS2 ... look better then before , from texture mods to gui mods to other fan fixes ...then using those and selling them all their own on Steam and Gog ...
It all started with the removal of "System Shock Portable "mod"" from the Systemshock.org
A letter from the staff that made those mods:
Hello Larry,
I have removed the download of System Shock Portable, into which a whole community including myself have invested years of work.
This game was once created by a bunch of extremely smart people in Boston who favoured individual thinking and personal skills over capitalism and following the rules. Have you played it?
The laws that you are using now to make money from their and our work were once put in place to protect creative workers and those who invested in their endeavours to ensure that they get paid.
But your company never created anything. "Night Dive" is just a device to misuse the legal system and fill Stephen Kick's pockets.
Go get a real job, Larry. Do something that isn't just enough to pay the rent. Write. Draw. Create something. Be more than a leech.
And play System Shock.
Sincerely,
Nicolai "Kolya" Sandow
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A game that for a LONG time became a freeware and the main source code was given to the fans ... now becomes again a commercial product to fill Stephen Kick's pockets ... and that's Nicolai "Kolya" Sandow point , when a company does a SWOT of old games that still have a fan base ... bought the rights and sells theirs compatibility mods, like they would own theirs work just to make a quick buck
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Final words from Marc 'MAHK' LeBlanc after the fall out:
So, I wanted to weigh in on the disappearance of Portable in favor of the GOG version, and this seems as good a place as any.
US Intellectual Property law is not in a very good place right now, and needs reform. It seems like we've forgotten that the whole point of IP law is to give creators a short-term incentive to create for the long-term public domain.
Shock Portable is awesome. All you guys who worked on it are heroes in my book. I cannot repeat that enough.
All that said, given the current reality of IP law, there was always a sword of Damocles hanging over Shock portable. Legitimate rights holders could have shut it down at any time. Heck, illegitimate rights holders could have shut it down with a nuisance suit. When the takedown first happened, a lot of you feared the worst, and rightly so.
But, thankfully, the rights are in the hands of people who are interested in maintaining its availability, rather than just locking it up to cover their own butts. The worst did not happen. At very least, the sword of Damocles has been disarmed.
No, LookingGlass didn't really make any money off of System Shock, other than the development costs (i.e. we got paid salaries and benefits). We could have made money if the game had sold well initially, but it didn't. Don't feel bad about the fact that we don't get a cut of the GOG sales. (And don't worry about us; We are all gainfully employed at places like Valve and Harmonix and Riot, not to mention OtherWorld. We are the Secret Masters of Gaming now...) Your chance to give us your money was when the game first game out.If you are looking for something to feel bad about, you can feel bad about missing that chance. ;)
On the whole, I'm pretty happy to see Shock come to GOG. Maybe someday I'll finish my stream...
- MAHK
www.systemshock.org/index.php?PHPSESSID=7ebe9a6eb4174785058e577240409461&topic=211.0
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As of now... after the strong fallout of the community and mod creators ... they came to some consensus ... Nightdive SS is sold without mods , that you have to get those from the community fan site ... and this is, in way Nightdive apology "We fuck up , we sorry , we stupid , we are now remaster part 1 , please buy "