If you’ve heard of The First Descendant, the new looter shooter from MapleStory and Dave the Diver publisher Nexon, you’ve probably heard that it’s a lot like Warframe. You might have also heard about Bunny, everyone’s new favorite OP cheeked-up anime waiꦑfu, and if you’ve scrolled through the Steam reviews, you’ve probably heard that, like many of Nexon’s games, it's lousy with microtransactions. What you probably haven’t heard, though, is that it's full of stolen Destiny 2 assets. The Mixed reviews are full of complaints about server issues, bugs, and monetization, but no one seems to have much of an issue with Nexon using stolen art.
after players started sharing side-by-side comparisons of icons from The First Descendant and Destiny 2 on Twitter. He dug up at least nine examples of The First Descendant icons that are nearly identical to icons from Destiny. Since the article was published . These can’t be mistaken as references or homages to Destiny’s icons. Though they’ve all been altered in some smal🦄l way, the tiny tweaks to lines and details can’t, and shouldn’t, sav🔯e Nexon from scrutiny here. The developers of The First Descendant stole the work of Bungie developers. There’s no debate to be had.
And yet, when confronted with that fact, people are either apathetic or, even more distressing, combative about it. You can see a lot of this enthusiastic indifference in Tassi’s replies. They’re full of co꧃mments like “ok and? Where’s the problem”, and “Does it really matter”. Others are making weird false equivalency arguments about the way games often borrow ideas from each other. I’m not going to waste my time going in on people acting in bad faith on the internet, but even if you imagine all these people are The First Descendant fans who don’t want to see their favorite little game ge♉t criticized, the fact remains that there’s been little to no outrage about this, and there should be.
🎀 The First Descendant Players Are Fed Up With The Amount Of Bunny Users
But, the overuse of the charaﷺcter has cau🐻sed the formation of some unlikely alliances.
Does it matter when a studio steals art to make a game? Yeah, I think that matters a lot, and I never thought I’d find myse🦄lf in a position where I had explain why. I’m not making a legal argument here – I assure you the business interests of Bungie don’t concern me, and I’m not calling for litigation the way some Nintendo fans cry “LAWSUIT” every time someone makes a ROM hack of Kirby’s Dream Land 2. My concern is for the ethics and integrity of people who are seemingly willing to ignore a studio harming artists by stealing their work and profiting off of it. Do you really want to give your time, money, and kernel level to your data and local files, to blatant thieves? I don’t.
1൲68澳洲幸运5开奖网:As the threat of AI-generated art looms, It’s distressing to see how unfazed people are about stuff like this. Earlier this week, former Destiny game director Christopher Barrett made a fairly innocuous tweet about using found imagery and AI to present ideas in a pitch deck. He wasn’t talking about making actual in-game assets with AI, just using AI to create mood boards at the inception stage - and . Personally, I’m in favor of a zero-tolerance policy on AI art for now, but surely what Nexon has done here is worse? This isn’t machine-made art built on the work of real artists put through a digital blender, this is tracing over another artist's work, adding a couple extra lines, and claiming they made it.
Where’s the fury? I can’t help but feel that if EA, Blizzard, Riot, or any other major Western studio pulled a stunt like this, it would be crucified online, yet no one cares when Nexon does it. The First Descendant is the fifth biggest game on Steam, right after Elden Ring. Do people expect less from a Korean free-to-play game? Because it’s not like they’re playing it less, and it certainly isn’t making less money than other top ten games like Team Fortress 2, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Apex Legends. And those games could never get away with using stolen assets.
I don’t think it's funny, or something to roll our eyes at. I think it's shameful and predatory, and I’d like to see things like this be taken a lot more seriously. If you care about the games you love and the people that make them, don’t be complacent about this. A developer that uses stolen work to push heinous microtransactions thinks you are stupid and easily manipulated out of your money. Let’s not prove it right.
The First Descendant Has 🌠A Fun Grappling Hook, 𝓡So It’s Automatically Good
A𓂃 game with a grappling hook is way more likely to be good than a game without a grappling hook.
