Con il termine "cross conversions" si intendono le conversioni modding di vetture o piste da un titolo ad un altro: ad esempio un tracciato di GTR Evolution dei Simbin trasportato in rFactor2 degli ISI. Proprio la conversione del Nordschleife, iniziata dal German Modding Team, ha fatto alzare la voce alla software house svedese, che con questo lungo comunicato ha chiarito di considerare illegali anche le conversioni munite di DVD Check.
We therefore ask you to look up at the many great talents in our community that create new cars and tracks from the ground up, these people put a great amount of time and effort into their work, that can only be praised. We believe that is where the skill is, that is where respect is earned. There are many talented people around that can create content for many years to come, and if you cant wait for that one bit of content you really want. Start your own project, its a great skill to have and who knows where it might bring you in the future!
We hope that this call to stop these conversions is picked up by the community leaders and owners, league owners and other developers to run a tight ship in their neighbourhood.
- No more cross game conversion, including conversion with a DVD check
- Upgrading and modifying existing game files in the original game is allowed
- Converting content from older SimBin games, to newer SimBin games is allowed and vice versa, but only with the DVD check.
- Converting content from a SimBin game to any other game not produced by SimBin is not allowed
- Converting content from any game any other competitive game should not be allowed
- Creating new content from the ground up will be praised
DrivingItalia ovviamente si adegua alla decisione dei Simbin, modificando il proprio regolamento sul modding ed impegnandoci a farla rispettare. Le prime reazioni dei modding team più famosi sono del resto favorevoli. Questo il parere di MAK Corp:
This is a great open note to the sim-racing community Simbin released today. I think that this is a perfect example of how the modding world should be. All these people converting content from games to games should not be promoted or encouraged. If people want to learn modding, join a mod group, don't convert original game content from one to another, its not legal and its not right. Be sure to read this message from Simbin, we at MAK-Corp wholly support this and hope the community will too!
