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Brutal Ace told Compete that he used his modding donations to purchase “an expensive laptop” as well as “some 3D models on TurboSquid and get official Capcom DLC for modding purposes.” However, fan artists can also be subject to copyright takedown notices, particularly if they start making enough money to catch the eye of copyright holders. This and many other ways of generating income from fan art are present on internet.” He has also put up a link to his Paypal for further donations.īrutal Ace sees his mods as being similar to fan art: “If you ask a famous hobby artist to draw a high quality painting of Chun-li in your favourite clothing, then most likely he/she is going to charge you up front without worrying about who owns Chun-li. In a post on his DeviantArt page, he wrote, “Capcom issued a DMCA notice to take down my Patreon page … this said, I will continue modding like nothing happened and expect to see new mods from me very soon.”Īs promised, Khaledantar666 has since released several new mods via his Facebook page. Khaledantar666 has also continued to make mods, although his Patreon page is no longer active. “I am planning to continue creating these mods for my supporters and I will share them for free to everyone whenever I’ll return from my break,” he said, “Though right now, I don’t have enough motivation to do anything for the toxic part of this community, and this break will probably help me.” It was only me who wanted to reward those supporters with one week exclusivity.”īrutal Ace is not retiring permanently from the Street Fighter mod scene. “I am sure my supporters would be fine if had I decided to release at the same time as for Patrons. “I wasn’t charging anyone,” he told Compete. However, Brutal Ace claims all of his mods were free, as long as users could stand to wait a week.

In an emailed statement to Compete, Brutal Ace confirmed that Capcom had sent him a takedown notice, and he theorised that “the ruckus on Reddit caused it,” elaborating: “It wasn’t my intention to keep Patreon hidden from Capcom, because I still think that Capcom supports PC modding even if indirectly, but the reason why I got targeted is because of the fuss over Reddit.”

Brutal Ace blames those detractors for the shutdown of his modding Patreon. The existence of Brutal Ace and Khaledantar666’s Patreon pages drew ire online from the Street Fighter mod fandom, since fans are used to getting all mods for free. Since video game mods feature copyrighted materials, it’s not legal to charge for them. Brutal Ace’s mod of Chun-li as Wonder Woman