Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation continues to be a authorized nightmare for anybody concerned. The crew behind the Resurrected mod introduced that the undertaking’s future is up in the air after receiving a copyright infringement declare.
Introduced on the official Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected Discord and X/Twitter, the crew behind the undertaking introduced it obtained a stop and desist letter from an lawyer representing Horror, Inc., which owns the rights to the Friday the thirteenth movie franchise. The stop and desist letter, which is connected to the publish beneath, mentions that the fan mod is an “unauthorized use” of the IP, describing it as an “unlicensed, knockoff Friday the thirteenth online game.”
As you might bear in mind, we now have obtained a stop and desist from @joshgeller2 who works for @GreenbergGluske and is Horror Inc’s authorized consultant. With that, the undertaking is more than likely over however we do plan to work on different initiatives. We’re nonetheless ready for response from some… pic.twitter.com/Uk2QORRRvg
— Resurrected (@GameResurrected) April 8, 2024
In the publish, the crew behind Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected states the undertaking is has been canceled in response to the letter. They plan to pursue work on one other undertaking. The crew notes that it is “nonetheless ready for response from some individuals we now have contacted,” however is at the moment engaged on erasing all of the content material behind the undertaking, together with the official X/Twitter account and the lately launched web site.
“It is a disgrace that somebody needs to combat in opposition to a fan-made undertaking with no revenue made,” the crew behind the undertaking wrote. “It wasn’t our intention to ‘harm the model’ as Horror Inc. claims we did.”
Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected’s growth crew initially deliberate to announce a launch date subsequent Monday, April 15. The undertaking was designed as a free mod based mostly on the 2017 horror recreation. The mod would have been free to personal and embody devoted multiplayer providers and fan-made content material, together with new characters and skins.
The fan undertaking aimed to revive the horror recreation after its writer, Gun Interactive, introduced it was delisting at the finish of 2023. Whereas the recreation stays playable for many who purchased it earlier than its delisting, Gun Interactive plans to close down the servers altogether on December 31, 2024. Earlier than its delisting, Gun Interactive was pressured to halt growth of the new recreation roughly two years after its launch; amongst the canceled content material deliberate for Friday the thirteenth, The Recreation included a werewolf mode, with gameplay just like Fortnite’s Imposters mode or most notably, Inside Sloth’s social deduction recreation Amongst Us.
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