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simple, (edited ) do games w Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale adaptation

Holy cow, that’s huge. Fables is a very well-beloved universe, good on him for giving it to the public. I hope this opens the door for an adaptation of the comics. Alan Moore would be proud.

Tagger, do games w Fables creator places Wolf Among Us universe in public domain amid clash with DC over Telltale adaptation

anyone know of anywhere I can legally down load them now then?

kae,

That’s not how this works.

You’re free to create stories, video, of your own video game in the universe. If you chose to make that public domain and give it away for free, then good on you.

Others can create freely in this universe with their own expression, which they could charge for.

Much like how there are movies about Cinderella or Red Riding Hood which are under copyright, but the base story itself is in the public domain and free to use.

Tagger,

Right, that makes sense! Thanks!

What an awesome thing for him to do but I can’t pretend I’m not slightly disappointed to have a huge series of free comics to dive into.

clay_pidgin,

I recommend the Overdrive app. sign up (in the app, even!) for a library card (doesn’t necessarily need to be to your local library) and start checking the books out!

Tagger,

Thanks

clay_pidgin,

You betcha. I recommend it to people all the time.

jayandp,

It’s called Libby now, but still great advice.

clay_pidgin,

Oh right, thanks.

bpm,

Always worth checking if there’s more libraries you’re eligible for, for the best selection - I’ve got a card through my local library, one from the next town over (I just need to visit once a year to renew), and a town in California (Sunnyvale) that gives library accounts to anyone who applies. Some libraries will do digital-only accounts for like $20/Year, so that could be worth looking into if your local library doesn’t support Overdrive/Libby.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

The Wold Among Us universe is public domain. Not the mainline Fables universe.

gabereal,

incorrect.

As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time.

520,

You're misunderstanding what's happened.

The author has relinquished his copyright on the Fables universe. Every work based on it has its own copyright, however.

So while you can make your own stories in the Fables universe, it doesn't mean that things like The Wolf Among Us game from Telltale have had their copyrights affected in any way.

archon, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

I bought and played it a bit some months ago. It’s an interesting RTS/4X blend with the “realtime with pause”. For me the game wins in originality, with some novel systems I didn’t see before.

Not super memorable, but a nice change of pace if you want a middle ground between Civ and C&C. Buy on sale (was not so pricy either iirc).

wahming, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

Was interested, but looking at the steam reviews there’s no campaign, just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps. And it sounds like another case of EA abandoned as full release.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I loved Dune on Sega Genesis, and it had a great campaign IIRC. It’s too bad, because if this had a decent campaign, I’d probably get it out of nostalgia.

raptir,

There’s a campaign, just not a story mode. It’s a conquest-style, like what Dune 2 pretended to have (but was obviously scripted). Like Dawn of War: Dark Crusade or Soul Storm.

wahming,

So… Just a bunch of strung together skirmish maps?

SatanicNotMessianic, do games w Dune: Spice Wars review: a compulsive 4X that both nails and wastes its source material

Do sonic tanks have one mapsquare greater range than turrets, making choosing House Atreides an I Win button?

It’s been about 30 years since Dune 2 came out.

hydroel, (edited ) do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

The Sims 4 base game is already free. So if I’m understanding this correctly, EA, of all game publishers, is announcing that, against all odds, a free-to-play game with in-game MTX is an efficient business model that they want to promote? This might not be related at all that the Sims has always been a license that caters to the general, not particularly gamer audience.

Toribor,
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With Sims 4 already being F2P this announcement just means they are once again going to resell the same content back to you at a premium. Piecing up their game even more.

fsxylo, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

We’re releasing 100 chairs each sold separately.

Squander, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Its free-to-play but you need to buy the housing/eating/sleeping/jobs/relationships DLC.

InEnduringGrowStrong, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC
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Prepare for microtransaction hell

MountainWizard,
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Just by reading the headline I can tell that’s will be a terrible Game. But it will make a lot of money.

Hyrulian, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC
@Hyrulian@lemmy.world avatar

Whelp at least Paralives could be fun? Or that other one being worked on by Paradox? We honestly just need someone to save us at this point. Anything else would do so well even if it wasn’t quite as polished. It just needs to be feature complete at launch.

Summzashi, (edited )

Life by you is the Paradox one, it honestly doesn’t look good.

MrScottyTay,

Looks like a porn game without the porn

RixMixed,

Give the modders at least an hour.

ShaggySnacks,

An hour!? More like when the game launches.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Pretty sure they already had decent free to play Sims games on mobile a long time ago. Not sure how good the current one is.

The current base game is free to play as well with paid DLC. So they are taking the form that works for them.

People will by DLC if they want to and others get to enjoy a the base game for free.

The Sims has been pretty shit since the Sims 3.

doctorcrimson,

Sims 4 base game is actually already free on steam. I hear from a good friend, not me personally, that it has some great porn mods on the lovers lab site. Some bad mods, too.

DocBlaze, (edited )

I’m the good friend and will confirm

drekly, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

Ah, so the sims is dead, I see.

pimento64,

It’s also soon to be astroturfed to hell and back with “omg let people enjoy things” and the “stop having FUN” comic any time people mention how dogshit this is.

mind,

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  • pimento64,
    bionicjoey,

    Good thing there’s that spiritual successor (paralives) coming down the pike

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais,

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    Iunnrais, (edited )

    Haven’t heard of paralives. The one I’m familiar with is “Life by You” from Paradox. I’m hoping for cities skylines integration, which is why I have my eye on that one, even if it is a different developer it’s the same publisher so there’s hope…

    (Sorry if you briefly saw a billion duplicate comments from me— Memmy suddenly crashed and when it reopened it seems to have just kept reposting again and again. I think I deleted all the copies now)

    Aurenkin,

    RIP Maxis. Who knows what kinds of awesome stuff we could have had. Oh well, at least Cities Skylines 2 is on the way. Haven’t played a Sims game in a long time but had such a blast with the earlier entries in the series.

    doctorcrimson,

    RIP Maxis and like 50 other studios that EA bought and dissolved over the decades.

    Aurenkin,

    Still haven’t emotionally recovered from Westwood

    Squizzy,

    I loved Tiberian Sun and the Red Alerts

    drekly,

    And Bullfrog

    Aurenkin,

    Still haven’t emotionally recovered from Westwood

    fogetaboutit, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

    If sims 5 doesnt allow my sims to exit the house without loading screen, then it isnt worth it

    geosoco,

    The loading screen is optional DLC. Definitely not a micro-transaction. Just very small DLC.

    Kolanaki,
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    I want to actually watch them do their jobs, too. Not just enter a building and forcing me to watch time go by for the 8 hours they are there. I don’t care if they’re just packing boxes for Samazon; I mean, I will watch them watching TV. Watching them do boring stuff isn’t that boring.

    bionicjoey,

    Agreed. Working is the worst part of the Sims. They make you just fucking sit there for all that time staring at the outside of a building

    fogetaboutit,

    yeah, jobs on sims 3 is basically entering a building and waiting. With an occasional prompt about “what should your sims do?”

    DocBlaze,

    you never used open careers mod? it sort of works how like university life did. you get career progression from using associated objects, and are otherwise are free to talk to your coworkers, grab lunch, etc during the work day.

    fogetaboutit,

    That sounds awesome actually, but no im not aware of it. I think it would be nice if its integrated tho

    Voroxpete, do games w The next Sims game will be free-to-play with paid DLC

    Totally unrelated, but that “Totally not The Sims” game that Paradox are developing looks pretty great, huh?

    SpaceNoodle, do games w Steam turns 20 today: "We've had to try a lot of different things over the years"

    Only 20? What was that platform I had to install in the late '90s?

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