Well, I can explain that one. This forum probably uses what I’d call a “dark list” (in order to not offend anyone LOL), which is essentially the opposite of a “white list” (not a phrase I just invented). Now, a “white list” has lots of words that the developers want you to be able to use, and will make any word that is not in the list be bleeped out, while a “dark list” contains lots of words that you DON’T want people to use, and if one of the words in the list can be bleeped out. Why use a “dark list”? There’s probably less cuss words than words in the normal English dictionary, and a “dark list” lets you do thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssss and any random whafabbledooku you wanna say. Why use a “white list”? It will bleep out what you said earlier because that word should not be in any serious “white list”. And the creators of it don’t have to expose themselves to a ton of bad language.
I suggest you go edit that post back there. I’ve seen other posts like that posts deleted, yes, on THIS forum.
So they can’t just ignore a fan-game and not ignore others? Wait, actually, if the game belongs to the community, then couldn’t “my” company also just publish any good fan-games as games that are licensed by us and give them to the public for free? “My” company wouldn’t be making any money off the other person’s work, their work is not copyrighted (apart from the sections that belong to “us”), they weren’t making money off it, AND any credit due would be given in this official version!
EDIT: Awhile back I thought of a much better idea.
Is it possible for one to just run a “tight ship” with fan-games rather then a “one guy does something terrible, it becomes an execution ground”? And create a license agreement for fan-games in general? Then anything that didn’t use this agreement could be called an infringement, and the agreement itself could also call for any changes asked by the copyright owner to be completed, otherwise the game could be counted as an infringement! 