Charliehorse wrote:

But games like Sunday the 19th are safe right? They have a "Saw" like the movie mode, it's fan based but I would let it slip by seeing how its just a mode on it.

Sunday the 19th will need some revisions to not be considered a fangame. For one thing, it looks like they are using a poster right from the movie, which is a no-no. Currently it isn't marked as such because we are working on a feedback system where the mods and the hub owners can have a dialog so they know why games were reassigned and how they can update them.

Other games, like 'Resident Evil Online' can also most likely be modified to be non-fangames.

I am sorry to tell you but, most people get on BYOND for "fan based games". If you are planning on taking them off this will probably be a dumb mistake. Doing this you will lose most of you BYOND members & the non-members also.

Teka123 wrote:

...please work with me...

http://www.byond.com/members/ BYONDHelp?command=view_tracker_issue&tracker_issue=2577 ?
I was working on a new list, but clicked off this page, and lost it. There are like 6 REO rips now. It seems like 2 of the Zeta rips were removed, but replaced with 2 others. There were also some unavailable games that seem suspicious. I'd also say several of the FF games listed are rips of FFL, but I'd have to play that game again to get a feel for it before testing. Most of them were unavailable anyway.

Anyone who comes to this thread because of a copy/pasted message over the pager (or in game) and then DOESN'T first read the post above before commenting ought to be shot in the face.

In fact, I think that Tom ought to make that the next new site feature. A button that can be clicked to head shot Anime kiddies who post comments in a blind, misinformed rage.

Falacy wrote:

Those messages over the pager are most likely true. Though I haven't seen them.

I think that sums it up.

Falacy wrote:

blabbering about how BYOND was ending, and getting rid of all the fan games. Which is pretty much whats happening.

No, it's not. If you actually bothered to read the post you would know fangames are still around and can be found by clicking the fangame tag. They just aren't in the default listing.

Stop contributing to the confusion.

Falacy stop being so negative, Fangames being suppressed? Ok maybe a little they are not to be seen Straight away anymore, but they do now have their own little category's where all the original ones can hopefully be found.

Rip's are being suppressed and rejected and sometimes even removed.

A Pager saying that byond is falling into hell and half the users will leave and that all fan games are going, is not true.

Byond is simply ordering things to a more representable (legal) site for new players.
Maybe Tom just wants people to start enjoying making their own original projects again, instead of people finding readily made games to alter, or using ideas which are not their own.

But stop trying to make people think fangames will be any harder to find than they currently are now, which is not hard with that tag there.

Falacy wrote:

Fan games and rips are being suppressed. However you want to spin it.

The problem here is you people interchange the words suppress and remove at your leisure. They're two entirely different words with entirely different meanings. Stop trying to spin things around to make it sound worse than it actually is.

Fangames are still here, you can easily find them by searching for fangames.

By the way, at one time BYOND didn't even have a hub and people managed to play games just fine.

Which definition applies, pray tell?