James Stephanie Sterling's Take on the New Doom Release

I watched this on monday and I was inclined to agree based on the fact that it's criticizing Bethesda, but the reasoning was mostly tied to the low security / unmoderated measures they're taking to run the mod upload system, and pretty much nothing else.

The meat of this criticism is the amount of negligence and lack of oversight Bethesda has to prevent incompatible, broken, malicious, and copyright infringing material from being uploaded on their platform, which to me, seems like Jim is playing both sides of the argument.

The mod upload feature is ultimately, a pretty cool thing. I suspect members of nightdive would have fought pretty hard to advocate for it if there was pushback, considering being able to play custom wads is the main attraction of playing Doom today.

When Jim is criticizing mods for housing copyrighted content, it sounds to me like they are criticizing the mod developers, who initially created this stuff (sometimes 20+ years ago) to give away to the community for free, not for profit. Because they are just one person making a niche mod that requires a copy of Doom 2 and usually a lot of manual set-up to install, they didn't have the owners' eyes of that copyrighted content on them. And many of them likely did not anticipate that anyone would still be playing Doom today.

I don't think this nearly addresses the real problem, and if this video gets traction, players will likely lose the mod upload/download system, but modders and source port developers won't be free of the advancement of the id24 map format and whatever its future entails.

I appreciate that a youtuber with a large following is using their account to criticize Bethesda but I don't think this paints the full picture. I was pretty sure this mod upload system was just a kindness to soften the blow of this new id24 thing, but if this goes on, we won't even get that.

sidenote, I've never watched this person before but the amount of 'jokes' they inserted into this video was exhausting and pretty much all of them fell flat for me.

Guys like that always want to put everyone in pens and tighten the screws. They don't see the real problems, but oh my god mod uploading is way too loose. And of course malicious wads, oh yeah. Uh huh. For a source port that сrashes with any sneeze and doesn't have a scripting system. Mentally ill paranoid person is afraid of non existent for this source port terry wads

My final take on the subject is that the KEX port / community uploads are pretty much a manna from the sky if you're a console player, and 100% useless on PC, as DSDA is better in every single way. Morality and legality are moot, as Doom mapping entirely thrives on an ocean-sized legal gray area.

What if we immediately declare that the mapping is for Freed(infinity)m?