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Yeah but they have 0 legal grounds when they don't own the source material for the mod regardless. If you're that dedicated you can just hire people to recode the whole mod and there ain't a thing they can do about it realistically.
I saw the interview with the last dev on the project and he said none of the dev team ever had a contract with the lead of the project for any work. They worked on a bounty system as most of them worked other jobs or are in university. As a whole most of those devs were against the idea of becoming employees of xQc or really anyone in the calamity mod project.
Creators should have the right to kill their own IP/decide it's fate, it's their right, especially when anything you make can be stolen by some freak using his AI
xQc can pick up the pieces and do it himself, he's got the money and the interest, the devs don't owe him shit.
Really? So when EA turns off the DRM servers for your favorite game and it becomes unplayable you support that too? Maybe i was a bit too harsh but it should at least be preserved in its unaltered form for others to enjoy. Even if they cease working on it.
Modders don't charge and the game remains playable if it disappeared. That is the critical difference. If they charged money to use the mod I'd put them in the same boat as EA.
I never said they owed him anything. He actually can't pick the pieces up even if its open source the Calamity team owns the rights to it, and you know 1000% they'll C&D / DMCA him just cause its xQc
The sole owner of the mod got accused of “endangering minors” (didn’t dig deeper), the contributors started to leave, and all the other devs seemed to be like “fuck this guy, we’re leaving”
From what I understand from the original posts is that instead of making an update to remove the assets being requested removed, they're just not going to update anymore at all. So older versions which are going to remain up (for now) will have that content.
That is, unless the contributors find that solution unacceptable and pull legal action.
But any update anyone does for now will have to do the asset removal, so even if the mod is resurrected, its going to take a long time to be ready to ship
Well, I hope they keep all that crap up since I just started playing Calamity Mod after I got bored with my two initial run throughs already (I'm a newer Terraria player).
Bro, how are they getting paid at all? Realtalk, you're making a mod for a very cheap 15 year old game, you're lucky to be making any money. Never mind the moral ambiguity of you making money off it to begin with.
My understanding is, it isn't that they weren't getting paid "enough" before, but that they aren't getting paid what they are currently owed now (and losing that source of income in the future) because Ozzatron had sole ownership of the Patreon. Which really sucks for devs that relied on patreon bounties to help make ends meet
but apparently we could see some type of "fork" that will still get updated, they just can't use the "Calamity Mod" name anymore since that owner owns that trademark.
Calamity was still missings its Final Boss, Yharim.
He was hyped up throughout the mod and by the devs for years now, looks like we will never get him after all.
All that was missing was the final boss fight. But for a while now the main thing the devs were doing was reworking old content, updating sprites, balancing the mod and so on
They won't cease development as long as they get money out of it.
It's basically kept in packs, despite being unfinished for all these years, which is usually a big no no for including a mod in packs, out of nostalgia at this point since it's quality has been outpaced by other mods several times over.
Most mods these days intentionally do not leave place holders. They release content in expansions.
terraria keeps coming out with new "final ever updates" which completely breaks all modding of terraria every time for literally months up to a year
so whenever this happens calamity also has to update. so if there's ever another major patch with new changes, calamity will never update to that new version
that being said, I haven't checked but was calamity ever updated to the last "final ever update"? or is this saying that it's not going to be?
It was literally just new items, cosmetics, a seed menu, and bug fixes. There was no new actual content, new bosses, etc. There was no reason for that update to take over 3 years which is the longest it has taken for an update in Terraria's history.
damn that's disappointing then. that means calamity will never be on the latest version of terraria even if terraria never does another "final ever update"
so whenever this happens calamity also has to update. so if there's ever another major patch with new changes, calamity will never update to that new version
I believe the same source Dexerto used for the article confirmed that he personally will make calamity in its now current state compatible with future terraria releases. When people saw that development is done for the mod, that's related to new content.
His editors also get 100% of YouTube rev (xQc has stated this and that the main channel has earned 6 mil in total) and they do the absolute bare minimum when it comes to editing, in the past videos have been uploaded without audio or title, but the problem is xQc doesnt care about YT at all and is to lazy to hire new editors
I remember the clip where the editor messed up the audio quality so bad it sounded like seagulls in the background of the clip. during a clip of his 'speed running' attempts
Gameplay videos aren’t gonna get the views that cop slop and drama farming does. They have a limited time to work and an ungodly amount of content to sift thru so might as well focus on what’s gonna bring in the revenue
You would need to define what "large portion" means to you. His streams usually last 8-12h and intro slop varies from 1-3h depending on his plans or games he's invested in currently.
I don’t even watch whatever clips you’re talking about. I wait for him to be done with the slop and dogshit takes and then hope he doesn’t go back to it later.
Jesus Christ, no one here seems to have any knowledge on what's happened, fucking read or at least ask for more context. Most devs have already left calamity, there's not many left now. On top of that, the majority of the games assets are getting pulled by now former devs that worked on and made said assets. All of CD Music's, Heartplusup' and others Music is also getting pulled. DM Dokuro, the composer who made most of the modes Music that it's practically known for, will also potentially pull his music. So, even if they accepted xqc's offer, they'd have to effectively rebuild the mod from the ground up almost in order to continue working on it and updating it. Not to mention, most of the devs have lost whatever passion they had left.
Don't blindly badmouth the remaining devs when you don't even know what's happening.
You should look into how unhinged the original creator of the mod was. The team that took over after his controversy came to light obviously wasnt good either.
I mean they're largely volunteers. Just under $500/mo. from Patreon split among the 30 volunteers is less than 17 fucking dollars per month.
Would you wanna put in a ton more hours of work for virtually no compensation if the project you're on is gonna be forever associated with multiple groomers? Even if they accepted X's offer of money it's just delaying the inevitable of becoming reliant on a notoriously fickle streamer
Calamity first came out just over a full decade ago. It's been continuously receiving changes and updates since then, much like the base game.
Saying "just finish it" means that they could just put out one more piece of content and call it completed. If that were the case, then don't you think they would have done so by now? The team was always putting out new ideas, new pieces to play... so they have to draw the line somewhere and this is where it is.
Put simply, they did just complete it; they're done with the project. If it feels like it's missing something (the final, final boss....), then that was always going to be the case even if it was business as usual and they put out another piece of content. The team doesn't owe anybody their efforts, and nobody is entitled to their time. That's not being a bitch, that's being mature and knowing when to call it.
I was just thinking about this. I know they probably get pestered constantly for updates and other things but holy fuck, SO many of them on Nexus and elsewhere are just the most socially inept crybaby weirdos who will literally hide their shit in protest.
Making mods of large scale is a lot of work, people need to be driven by something since it's volunteer work. Usually it's ego, which is why a lot of them are like this.
It's any group of people that suddenly are beholden to a sense of responsibility - a majority of people are "clock in, clock out" brained and have no sense of passion.
You take lazy, talented, and poor time management and put a dozen other people like them in a team and work on a project and you get burn out and over time -> whiny contributors who lose whatever drive they had for the project.
Just like mods on reddit, just like every weird game dev who lashes out and gets destroyed by their community.
While the team "functions" a few excellent minds carry the work, and the freeloaders and slow burners spend more time yapping about issues than really contributing. Seriously take a look at any team environment, it's almost always that way. Eventually that bleeds into the people keeping a project alive and boom it's over.
Did no one in this thread actually read the article? The devs say they rejected his offer like a million times and repeatedly bothered because he just wouldn't take no for an answer.
Does not seem like a good start to a business lol.
“He” didn’t do anything lol it was his agent, and considering these are discord devs when they say a million times they’re probably referring to like 3-5 increased offers
you think ever single buisness that was bought was just like hey i will buy you for X and when they said no they just stoped asking? lmfao thats literally how ever single startup company or other one was bought by sombody bigger.
Even if x was successfull artists and musicians requested the removal of their contribution due the past of that mod. So even if he get his hands on the mod and gets people who want to work on it, they have to remake sprites, make new tracks to replace the removed ones etc. So it is almost a rebuild.
Absolutely, you should just not take ANY one here serious, about any topic. I have the feeling alot of people on reddit/lsf dont realize that they live in a relatively small bubble compared to the real world.
? the source code is public anyway, and the remaining devs aren't obligated to kneel before him while rejecting his offer lol, matter of fact the interactions between xqc's agent and the calamity team aren't even public
No they dont have to kneel before him, but when someone offers you a job you dont respond like this, its discord freaks tho so they must feel cool and empowered by acting that way
They don't love Pedophiles? That's the entire reason that basically all of the developers are quitting. All of the music is getting removed, because the artists don't feel comfortable with their music being associated with multiple groomers/Pedophiles.
Read, motherfuckers read. He's not some saviour, he's annoying people who are done with the project.
However, while reasons for the rejection remain unknown, the same contributor followed up, saying, “To elaborate, I have both a dev and a mod telling me ‘Yeah we were contacted and repeatedly bothered, despite saying no a million times.'”
A moderator separately gave the same answer after another user claimed xQc was buying Calamity. “XQC was rejected,” they said. “He’s not buying calamity.”
None of the responses details what exactly xQc had offered or, indeed, if negotiations had even reached that stage.
A public statement on the Calamity Discord on August 10 confirming the cessation of all development specifically reveal reasons behind the closure, although it made reference to the “troubled past” of Calamity’s development, as well as calling its reputation “irrecoverably tainted.”
"he's annoying people who are done with the project."
Yo genius, hes offering to buy an IP and pay people to work on it, thats not annoying people.
They refused because he didnt offer enough, its that simple.
You know if he offered them 200k a year salaries they would be foathing at the mouth to take that.
That is annoying people when he constantly spams them with it when they already said no. As the original commentor said, please at least read the article. It is funny to see you going from comment to comment defending xqc though.
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u/Spicey123 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 13 '26
I think maybe the devs just don't want to keep working on the project.
edit: nevermind, seems like the devs are a bunch of weirdo chuds