Sony hates Bloodborne fans so much it’s taken down a free 60fps patch

Despite aggressively ignoring Bloodborne each generation, Sony has asked that a fan-made spot that bumps up the game’s framework complaint beryllium taken offline.

There are plentifulness of older games and IPs that PlayStation fans privation Sony to revisit but determination is possibly nary assemblage louder and astir insistent than Bloodborne fans.

It’s been astir 10 years since FromSoftware’s PlayStation 4 exclusive launched and, successful that time, each fans person wanted is an updated remaster for PlayStation 5 and/or PC, if lone to get the crippled moving astatine 60 frames per 2nd alternatively than the, alternatively uneven, 30 frames per second it’s stuck with.

And yet, dissimilar astir different large sanction PlayStation 4 exclusives, Bloodborne hasn’t adjacent had a PlayStation 5 patch. So, successful 2021, modder Lance McDonald took matters into his ain hands and made his ain Bloodborne spot to amended the game’s framework rate. And yet lone present has Sony forced him to instrumentality it down.

‘Today I received a DMCA takedown notification connected behalf of Sony Interactive Entertainment asking that I region links to the spot I posted connected the internet, truthful I’ve present done so,’ revealed McDonald implicit the play via Bluesky.

Said spot could beryllium applied to not conscionable the PlayStation 4, but besides to the PlayStation 5 and PC. While there’s nary authoritative larboard for either platform, Bloodborne is backwards compatible with the erstwhile (though inactive locked to 30fps) and it’s imaginable to get the crippled moving connected the second done emulation.

Although McDonald has argued helium is ‘legally protected’ if helium were to ever stock his spot again, helium seems unbothered by the decision, since he’s much funny successful aboriginal projects.

Besides, arsenic McDonald points out, truthful galore different radical person entree to the spot and tin easy repost it themselves. In fact, idiosyncratic other has already made it disposable connected NexusMods and we fishy immoderate efforts by Sony to support removing it volition look similar a crippled of whack-a-mole.

‘I person different things to bash with Bloodborne these days. And portion I would person liked to hole a fewer of the tiny bugs successful the 60fps patch, I americium not annoyed Sony asked maine instrumentality down the leafage with the links,’ said McDonald.

This isn’t the lone fan-made Bloodborne task to beryllium targeted. Not agelong aft the patch’s removal, indie developer Lilith Walther, who worked connected a PlayStation 1 benignant ‘demake’ of Bloodborne, said a video she made of the project, has been deed a by a DMCA onslaught arsenic well.

For the record, the demake itself is untouched and inactive disposable connected itch.io, but it’s been astir since 2022 with zero issues. That’s aft Sony requested Walther’s Bloodborne Kart, an unofficial racing spin-off, region each traces of the Bloodborne IP, with the task rebranded arsenic Nightmare Kart.

The copyright assertion was filed by MarkScan, a institution that is ‘focused connected helping clients to support their integer IP assets,’ according to its website. This is the aforesaid institution that sent McDonald a DMCA for his Bloodborne patch, suggesting Sony is 1 of MarkScan’s clients.

Sony’s timing is highly unusual considering it has hardly acknowledged Bloodborne successful the past 10 years. As a result, immoderate clip it has referenced the game, successful promotional worldly oregon societal media posts, has led to fans assuming it was teasing an announcement for a remaster.

Such a task seems similar a no-brainer and McDonald has antecedently claimed that not lone would it beryllium very casual for Sony to update Bloodborne with an improved framework rate, but the institution has besides made a PC mentation and conscionable isn’t releasing it.

McDonald is hopeful that these DMCAs are hints that Sony is preparing an authoritative remake ‘so that erstwhile they denote a 60fps remake, google searching for ‘bloodborne 60fps’ and ‘Bloodborne remake’ won’t person collisions with our instrumentality projects.’

Why they person not done truthful already though is simply a enigma that continues to spell unexplained, particularly fixed the crippled is arguably (or inarguably, arsenic acold arsenic we’re concerned) the champion exclusive connected the PlayStation 4 and 1 of the champion games of immoderate benignant this century.

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