(Some changes we included in the recent patches, and more are coming in the next few days) Certainly this has been a huge lesson for us and hopefully other indie creators out there too that assets on these storefronts seemingly cannot be purchased in good faith.īack to work we go! Again, thank you for bringing the issue to our attention and helping us improve the game. Its a dense tapestry of jank, woven from bugs of every scale and size. This is not satisfactory for us and so we have taken the decision to replace the assets purchased from the store over the next several days. Bleak Faith: Forsaken proved to be a game out of its depth dozens of times over my next few hours with it. As with any store that hosts third-party content, however, Epic is not in a position to independently verify such rights, and Epic makes no such guarantee to purchasers of the content.”So essentially, they state they cannot verify the copyright of the animation packages purchased through their store. “Pursuant to the Marketplace Distribution Agreement, each Marketplace seller represents and warrants to Epic that they have appropriate rights to upload their content. Meowmaritus, creator of the Dark Souls Anim Studio software, has shared the following video. We have heard back from the escalation team at Epic which was as follows: It's a dense tapestry of jank, woven from bugs of every scale and size. It was somewhat of an oversight but also a decision that came from an honest place.As promised here is an update on the animation asset issue. Bleak Faith: Forsaken proved to be a game out of its depth dozens of times over my next few hours with it. "We hear you about it," they wrote, "we're working on new icons currently. The developers replied there as well, saying they would replace the art. The indie developer of this new souslike has been accused of reusing animations. This is why we reached out, to get some confirmation about the person who makes these animations."Īt the same time, a separate issue was raised on Twitter, where it was pointed out that Bleak Faith's perk illustrations are AI-generated art and have the distinctively bland look that comes with it. "And a second point, we're not judges or versed in what is and isn't allowed, or who owns the rights to any of these animations. We'll let you know what they say about it and will respond accordingly. We decided to be preemptive as a sign of good faith and a generally very pleased customer at the Epic Marketplace. The developer of Bleak Faith: Forsaken will now replace assets purchased from the Epic Marketplace, after being accused of using animations stolen from FromSoftware. That didn't do much to make the complaints die down, and later today ubermensch42 added, "I've submitted a ticket raising the concerns of the community to the Epic Customer Service and outlining the animation accusations. "The marketplace was used to fill in generic art and was still edited to fit in the general needs of the art direction," a developer named Roia said on Steam, estimating that "about 10% of the total game art is from there." On Archangel's Discord, another developer going by ubermensch42 said that, "The only other things from the Epic Marketplace that I use is for generic VFX that was a waste of time to make since I'd make things that looked virtually the same anyway, and things that are so generic (like some rocks) that didn't require artistic direction."
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