/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2711781
>I just don't understand their policy though

Ultimately, it's a matter of whether you want to make more or whether you want to get more.

Releasing open-source code and modding tools means people are able to do more with it. The community can do more, but you won't be able to get credit/profit from it. Plus, there's a high amount of chance people just either won't do anything with it or will make a monumental pile of shit.
Look at the RPG Maker community, for example. There's a couple really good games! There's also a monumental pile of shit and sub-bar nonsense. Most of the time Enterbrain never even sees a dime for any of the successful games and releases. And they don't often even enter people's minds when they go "oh, Yume Nikki was a great game made by a creative person!". I actually hate Yume Nikki but it's the first example I could think of.

If you keep things to yourself, you're able to exercise a higher level of quality control. Put airquotes around the words "quality" or "control" if you like. Or both.
More importantly, however, you benefit directly from it. By releasing your own extra mappacks and products for your, well, product, you get to reap in more of the credit, the cash, the acclaim, and whatever.

Me, I just see it as paying it forward.
I've done a nice chunk of stuff in modding, but a good 90% of it was built thanks to other people's works, them consciously spending their time and effort so that someone else can expand on it and make something cool.
Likewise, even if someone doesn't like something I make or thinks they can do better, or just wants to study to experiment with and learn how to do things, I can keep things open and available for them to play with as they want.

Boy, this sure was a tl;dr seriouspost.

>>2306804

But what if I am?

>>2109537

It's not really a bad thing or insulting.
If anything, it's kind of funny--which is why I went ahead, looked through combo videos, and nicked the most prominent thing I could find.

If I was actually upset about it, I'd probably be taking steps to remove similarities, which would likely result in a worse thing overall.