Friday the thirteenth: The Recreation continues to be a authorized nightmare for anybody concerned. The group behind the Resurrected mod introduced that the undertaking’s future is up within the air after receiving a copyright infringement declare.
Introduced on the official Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected Discord and X/Twitter, the group behind the undertaking introduced it acquired a stop and desist letter from an legal professional representing Horror, Inc., which owns the rights to the Friday the thirteenth movie franchise. The stop and desist letter, which is hooked up 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 could bear in mind, we’ve acquired 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 tasks. We’re nonetheless ready for response from some… pic.twitter.com/Uk2QORRRvg
— Resurrected (@GameResurrected) April 8, 2024
Within the publish, the group 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 group notes that it is “nonetheless ready for response from some individuals we’ve contacted,” however is at present engaged on erasing the entire content material behind the undertaking, together with the official X/Twitter account and the not too long ago launched web site.
“It is a disgrace that somebody needs to battle in opposition to a fan-made undertaking with no revenue made,” the group behind the undertaking wrote. “It wasn’t our intention to ‘damage the model’ as Horror Inc. claims we did.”
Friday the thirteenth: Resurrected’s improvement group 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 sport. 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 sport after its writer, Gun Interactive, introduced it was delisting on the finish of 2023. Whereas the sport 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 compelled to halt improvement of the brand new sport roughly two years after its launch; among the many 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, Interior Sloth’s social deduction sport Amongst Us.
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