ThelerisTelvanni wrote: »There is one more thing I'd like to add to this discussion:
I've been playing Minecraft for many years, often in Multiplayer. I have a friend with almost zero creativety and he was super frustrated with it. Whenever I was thinking up a more of less good loocking build he was stressed about his lack of creative vision.
At some point he started to lock at the creations of the streamers/YouTubers he watched and tryed to recreate the builds. And he was super happy when he found build tutorials that made it easyer for him. He was still frustrated that he did not have a creative vision of his own, but he was happy to at least have a nice locking build for himself.
He was also hoping he'd become a better builder, but up until this day I have not seen him do his own builds. Whenever we play togeter he always copys someone elses build.
BetweenMidgets wrote: »Thanks for passing this along, Kevin!
I hope there can be some resolution reached that doesn't require Inspection Mode to go away.
At this point I have been doing housing for a while, and I know what furnishings are what now. However, I remember when I first started decorating ... I didn't know what ANYTHING was. Once I came across a Hobbit house build that used the 'Redguard Enclosure, Arc' and I wanted to know what that furnishing piece was SO badly!! I was still new to the game and my friend group wasn't much into housing, and the one that was had no idea either.
The only way I ended up finding out was my friend was watching Jhart's stream about 2 weeks later and saw the furnishing in a build he was previewing and my friend asked what it was in chat, and Jhart answered! A bit of a circuitous way to find out the furnishing, and I would have LOVED to have the Inspection Mode feature when I first started decorating.
I would really hate having the Inspect feature go away, but I hope there is a solution that can be found!
Hi @Mloking. We’re going to take this to the dev team and chat about this. Just seeing this now, so probably won’t be able to investigate until next week. Just wanted to follow up that this has been seen and will be escalated to be addressed.
Thanks for posting this.
If its something that can be easily implemented to prevent, like only those with decorator permissions can copy, it would prevent the bad feelings of having your time and creativity stolen over and over again.
EHT is a wonderfull addon and I love seeing Cardinal succeed in bringing its features into the game for console and addon-free peoples.I hope that there is an easy and quick way to solve this.
If someone approches me and asks me to rebuild a home I have created, for them to have in thier home- that is a compliment.
If they drop into any random home they like and copy-paste without any credit, publish it to the hub or put it on Youtube and win contests with it and think no one will notice- we see you.
snippedRishikesa108 wrote: »I take advantage of this topic to confess and to lift a burden from my heart.
I have been doing housing since I started playing ESO and I must confess that in the early days I copied houses, both through videos and by visiting them and then trying to recreate them using the same items.
At that time EHT already existed, but certainly not inspection mode. I tried to understand how an object was built and then I recreated it similarly.
Rishikesa108 wrote: »I take advantage of this topic to confess and to lift a burden from my heart.
I have been doing housing since I started playing ESO and I must confess that in the early days I copied houses, both through videos and by visiting them and then trying to recreate them using the same items.
At that time EHT already existed, but certainly not inspection mode. I tried to understand how an object was built and then I recreated it similarly.
I have never participated in housing contests with those houses, also because I have participated in very few contests even with houses of my own unique design, given that I am convinced that contests are influenced by acquaintances and sympathies.
Later I destroyed those houses, or removed them from publication with EHT, and completely remade them with my own ideas.
I believe that copying a house, when one starts housing, can come naturally.
But there must be an effort to understand how it is made and built and it must never be possible to recreate it with a click.
I use EHT, but actually today I wouldn't even know how to use it to reproduce a house.
Maybe because I don't use PTS and therefore I never needed to learn this function.
I believe that this copy/paste function on your houses, i.e. from the PTS to the real game, is very useful for those who usually create on the PTS and then transfer the creation to the real game.
Obviously it must be prohibited to do this with other people's houses.
nathamarath wrote: »I think housers could be more open on this matter. As with every art there will people who cover your art. Look at music and imagine singers forbidding others to sing their songs. Also, I find -with all respect- some copies are great as well, sometimes even better, sometimes worse, sometimes, well, copies. We can learn from the ones we inspire and vice versa.
As a compromise one could enhance the ingame housing tours with the opportunity of CCs in which you can state that you do not wish your work to be copied at all, or not for contests, or copied with naming you, or copied with naming you and allowing them to further use and modify the build, and so on.. this may also protect and promote the not so well known builds. In addition, there could be a housing hub site, where people show off their builds including a furniture list, which could demonstrate respect to the first creators on one side and the learning creators on the other - advantaging both, PC and consoles housers
nathamarath wrote: »I think housers could be more open on this matter. As with every art there will people who cover your art. Look at music and imagine singers forbidding others to sing their songs. Also, I find -with all respect- some copies are great as well, sometimes even better, sometimes worse, sometimes, well, copies. We can learn from the ones we inspire and vice versa.
As a compromise one could enhance the ingame housing tours with the opportunity of CCs in which you can state that you do not wish your work to be copied at all, or not for contests, or copied with naming you, or copied with naming you and allowing them to further use and modify the build, and so on.. this may also protect and promote the not so well known builds. In addition, there could be a housing hub site, where people show off their builds including a furniture list, which could demonstrate respect to the first creators on one side and the learning creators on the other - advantaging both, PC and consoles housers
It's absolutely not OK to copy creations without permission in the arts, especially for monetary gain. That's why Copyright Law exists. Copy-pasting as Mloking is showing and inspiration are two wholly different things.
Housing creations can be thought of as similar to collage, which is also protected IRL, as are remixes in music. The assets are ZOS's, but the creations people make using them are, to varying degrees, transformative and original. Of course we won't have protection by IRL laws, but at the very least we as a community could hopefully agree that in-game "monetary" gains, such as contest entries and winnings, are not OK.
Just as in the arts IRL, within the housing community people share gladly, offering their builds for visitation and inspiration, showing their cobbles and how to make them, make addons, and so on. We draw the line when someone blatantly copies sans either permission or credit, and tries to benefit from it.
P.S. Since I said "monetary gains, I should also mention Fair Use. What most often happens IRL is people who simply have the intention to use anything they "found on Google" without paying always try to quote "Fair Use". It's not that simple, there are few cases where it actually applies. One could argue in ESO housing, that copy-pasting a build for their own private use would be akin to this.
This still feels a bit gross to me – as bayushi said above, I don't understand why someone would do it, beyond maybe their private RP or something. But if they're not trying to gain anything from it or show it to others while claiming as their own then, again as in art, then personally I can't say I could be moved to bother about it.
nathamarath wrote: »I think housers could be more open on this matter. As with every art there will people who cover your art. Look at music and imagine singers forbidding others to sing their songs. Also, I find -with all respect- some copies are great as well, sometimes even better, sometimes worse, sometimes, well, copies. We can learn from the ones we inspire and vice versa.
As a compromise one could enhance the ingame housing tours with the opportunity of CCs in which you can state that you do not wish your work to be copied at all, or not for contests, or copied with naming you, or copied with naming you and allowing them to further use and modify the build, and so on.. this may also protect and promote the not so well known builds. In addition, there could be a housing hub site, where people show off their builds including a furniture list, which could demonstrate respect to the first creators on one side and the learning creators on the other - advantaging both, PC and consoles housers
nathamarath wrote: »I think housers could be more open on this matter. As with every art there will people who cover your art. Look at music and imagine singers forbidding others to sing their songs. Also, I find -with all respect- some copies are great as well, sometimes even better, sometimes worse, sometimes, well, copies. We can learn from the ones we inspire and vice versa.
As a compromise one could enhance the ingame housing tours with the opportunity of CCs in which you can state that you do not wish your work to be copied at all, or not for contests, or copied with naming you, or copied with naming you and allowing them to further use and modify the build, and so on.. this may also protect and promote the not so well known builds. In addition, there could be a housing hub site, where people show off their builds including a furniture list, which could demonstrate respect to the first creators on one side and the learning creators on the other - advantaging both, PC and consoles housers
ThelerisTelvanni wrote: »Well to be honest I do not see any problem with copying a build, as long as it is for private use.
Maybe a RP player likes a build but has never done housing. A coppy simply gives the RP player the opportunity to do his RP in the wanted location. Yes the other players that do RP with that player will see the build but to be honest, I do not see any harm done in that scenario. In fact the opposite! A player or rather a group of players got enabled to enjoy the game more.
Where I see a problem indeed is when it comes to contests. If you have to make your home open to everyone so it can be copyed. But the simple solution to that is that you give a list of all the judges and streamer to everyone that takes part. That way only those that actually need to get into the house, can get the right to visit and no one can copy your build you made for that contest.
To me the inspection mode was a welcome addition and cutting it off, since some prominent builders feel butt hurt, feels wrong. What do you want housing DRM? I totally understand that you dislike it when someone else is taking credit for your creative work. I'd probably be pissed too. But at the end of the day it is just a game! It is supposed to be fun! If you are doing housing not because you have fun decorating, but instead because you want the fame, that is probably the wrong motivation. I simply want to create a nice place when I build something and in most cases I do so for myself.
Yet if for some reason someone were to copy your work and after you were showing it around that person was claiming to be the original creator, at that point I'd agree we'd have a problem.
But how do you want to prevent it? Cutting off inspection mode? Prohibiting the save build function of the addon? Do you expect ZOS to implement a tool that scans/recognizes all builds ever made on every server and when someone copys a build, it makes a big "copyed from XYZ" tag on the house whenever someone visits? As a form of DRM? And how much server capacity is it supposed to cost?
I think the easiest way is to limit the access to the houses in question, that you want no one to copy, to those you trust.
If you love something to the extent that you get a copy of it for yourself, I do (in most scenarios) not see a problem. And to some extent it is flattering that someone liked my build to the extent that they copyed it.
To me it seems there is no easy solution by side the one mentioned to this problem. Unless you want usability to be reduced for everyone. So better calm down a little and be less butt hurt and moderete the access to your homes.
You do not need to agree with my opinion, but I hope you can respect me stating it.
Greetings players and admins.
I'm making this post because some people, who spend a lot of time creating houses in this game, are tired of the EASY posibility of copying creations with a certain add-on - Essential Housing Tools (EHT).
To make it clear, I do NOT want this add-on to be disabled. It has a lot of very useful features, including the posibility for players to show off their homes to other people.
EHT has been working without major issues fine until approx. December 2022, when housing inspection mode was introduced. Before this update, people could make blueprints of their creations, or other people's creations WHEN they had permission as a decorator. After mentioned update, there were no limitations. People are now able to make blueprints of any accessible house.
Me and my dear friend Ayalockheart have found this feature at the very beginning. I contacted the admin of the add-on - @Cardinal05 - about this issue. I got a reply, which was most likely a misunderstanding, saying that this feature was for harmless intent, not understanding what I was trying to say. I do not remember if I sent another mail, was quite a long time ago, but I did try to contact Cardinal later on via mail (full inbox) and discord (no reply).
Not sure how often people make copies of other people's houses, players with sense will not make them public. BUT some people do make them public without a mention of the original designer - seeming as if they made it. And it just sucks.
Yes, copying will always be an unavoidable thing, but why make it easier?
The housing community is very close to each other, so we inform others about public copies. My houses have been copied in a way where people tried to recreate to the detail, which you can see when it is "handmade", or a way where a person just makes a blueprint with EHT of my build and pops it into their house - it is very obvious - pixel perfect.
I really just want to bring attention to this issue, and asking Cardinal05 or Architectura to look into this and fix it, thank you.
CatoUnchained wrote: »Everything anyone does in ESO is the property of Zenimax to do wish as they please. Players don't "own" anything in game; not their houses, not their builds, not their crowns, not their gold, not their inventory, nothing. ZOS owns everything game related no matter how proud of their creations the players may be.
Take a close look at the ToS is you don't believe me.
People who have put a lot of effort and talent into their work do not deserve to be robbed. I used this feature to move a building from one of my houses to another, but I never took someone else's.
I don't see a way to fix the problem, game technology is still too primitive to label unique houses with a "sign of uniqueness". The legal field is still at the beginning of the path towards recognizing gaming values as personal property protected by law, and even then, only in certain countries.
upd/ This cannot be compared to copying classes build. Home building in teso is an art