Again in 2021, modder Lance MacDonald launched a patch for taking part in Bloodborne on PlayStation 4 Professional at 60FPS in increase mode. Sony didn’t appear to note or care. Till now. Nearly 4 years later, the console maker and writer of this sport hit MacDonald with a DMCA request to have the patch faraway from the web.
“On February twenty first, 2021, I created and launched a patch for Bloodborne which makes the sport run at 60fps,” he wrote on X on Friday. “As we speak I acquired a DMCA takedown notification on behalf of Sony Interactive Leisure asking that I take away hyperlinks to the patch I posted on the web, so I’ve now carried out so.” He then referred followers to an previous YouTube video showcasing the mod in motion. That hasn’t been DMCA’d. But.
Bloodborne has languished for a decade now with no significant official upgrades on PS4 Professional, PS5, or PS5 Professional. It by no means obtained a remaster or perhaps a PC port. Followers have ready patiently for a sequel to the FromSoftware motion sport, however not even a whiff of 1 has ever materialized. Ex-PlayStation veteran Shuhei Yoshida just lately speculated that Sony is ready till unique director Hidetaka Miyazaki is able to proceed the spin-off collection, and the timing has simply by no means labored out.
However then Sony does issues like this. Why randomly hit a 60FPS mod that solely works on hacked last-gen consoles with a takedown request? Why wait virtually 4 years to do it? Does this counsel Sony may even have one thing Bloodborne-related within the works, like a PS5 improve that reinforces the decision and framerate on common fashionable consoles? Or was Sony one way or the other simply by no means conscious of the challenge earlier than and solely obtained round to implementing its copyright simply now?
An opportunity assembly seems each funnier and extra ominous now in mild of the present circumstances: MacDonald tweeted final 12 months that he had simply met Yoshida for the primary time. “[I] mentioned to him ‘I make mods for PlayStation video games’ and he mentioned ‘oh!’” he wrote. “And I mentioned ‘I made the 60fps mod for bloodborne’ and he laughed so exhausting. Stunning to satisfy him, such an exquisite particular person.” Did Yoshida narc? Or is that this one other thriller that can drive Bloodborne followers deeper down their conspiratorial rabbit holes?
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