SONIC UNREAL but, I need some help!

[anonymous_user_1d44336a]

@KVogler;638695

Well. You need to look one step further.
Imagine you own a video game company and you have a franchise going about “Roachie” a psychotic cockroach that has the wackiest of adventures in far out jump and run games ever.
Now someone comes along and makes a fan game of it. No profit. For the comunity, as you say.
And you kind heartedly allow the person to proceed and release the game to a general public.
The game is well received and everyone thinks you are a cool dude and really down with the gamer base, tollerating a fan made game without legal herassment.

Some weeks/month later:
A guy has an idea to make a fan game based on your franchise as well, but this time it takes a different turn. In this installment of the game, Roachie turns into a foulmouth sexist .
Blood and gore all over the screen and a nonstop serenade of racial slurs and cultural transgressions.
Of course the reception will not be as well. Feminist groups, religious associations and social justice warriors in general raise a social media (*) against you.
And is the funny part: Because you tollerated the first game, there is absolutely nothing you can do about the second…

So, declining a fan made project is mostly motivated for avoiding to set a precedence…

First of all, a section of that comment should probably be edited by a mod or yourself. I pointed it out for you by bleeping it out. And now I’ve put it in parentheses to make SURE you see it.

As for the actual message you’re trying to send, aren’t you allowed to tolerate something that is a violation of copyrights, but then go to court against what you wish to (in this example, the terrible fan-game that would ACTUALLY not be accepted by the left OR right, and for Pete’s sake, isn’t an actual FAN-game)? Or in every case, no matter how good or bad a fan-game is, do you have to treat it the same?