The Daily Populous Thursday February 10th, 2022 day edition
Authored by moddb.com and submitted by JamieDailyBits

Rise of Mordor will leave ModDB at the request of Warner Brothers. Find us through our different channels!

Posted by elijy on Feb 4th, 2022

We will not say “do not weep”, for not all tears are an evil.

we have received word from ModDB officials that Warner Bros has sent them a DMCA takedown request to remove Rise of Mordor from their databases. We are grateful to ModDB for giving us time to put our affairs in order before the page is taken down.

From what we know, this has to do with copyright infringement, as WarnerBrothers holds rights to making games related to both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies. At the same time, we do not know the specific reason triggering their intervention, seeing as we are a modification for an existing game and a non commercial project. At the moment, the only thing we can do is comply with the request from Warner Brothers. We’ll keep you posted on YouTube and on our Discord on everything happening.

We have sent emails to the Intellectual Property team of Warner Brothers and we are currently waiting on some form of answer, as well as a way to continue uploading our work here. Our developers are still going strong and you will soon see some previews we're sure you will enjoy!

Let me be clear. The mod HAS NOT been taken down, just our ModDB page.

As such, you can still join our Discord and keep up to date with our YouTube channel, as well as downloading through our NexusMods page.

ackstorm23 on February 9th, 2022 at 17:54 UTC »

they renamed it Rise of WarnerBros

TezzDonut on February 9th, 2022 at 16:16 UTC »

When will these companies figure out that they’re shooting themselves in the foot when they make decisions like these.. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Silent_Palpatine on February 9th, 2022 at 15:28 UTC »

There’s a new RTS coming. Same thing happened with Take 2/Rockstar going after modders for the GTA trilogy on the lead up to the DE coming out.

EDIT: I have no evidence to support that a new RTS is actually being made but it’s a pretty good guess.