Comment on Games Workshop had a Warhammer FTL clone pulled from Steam over some overly Space Marine-esque shoulderpads

NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I remember when RPS was THE best gaming blog out there.

Now?

According to the developers, Games Workshop’s inquisitors were particularly irked by the design of some shoulderpads in one of the featured trailers, referred to in correspondence as “oversized convex shoulder pads with a metallic rim”. Find a screen of the armour at stake in the vicinity of this paragraph. Tundra insist that those convex shoulderpads are all their own work, but say they’ve removed the trailer anyway to avoid disruption.

Shitty editing or AI slop? You decide.


As for the topic at hand: People were quick to glaze GW over their stance on not using generative AI. But that is part of a much bigger effort (including renaming the Imperial Guard and making all Space Marines “Primaris”) to lock down their copyrights and trademarks. Which “makes sense” considering Blizzard’s claim to fame is ripping them off mercilessly (which makes how many modern fluff characters are blatant ripoffs of their *craft counterparts even funnier).

And Void War? Has not been subtle about their influences. I hear it is a really solid FTL though.

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