Last week, Sony took down a four-year-old Bloodborne 60fps mod created by Lance McDonald without warning. On Monday, Sony struck again, filing a DMCA notice on an old video about the Bloodborne PSX demake project. As McDonald put it, "What the hell are they doing?"
As reported by IGN, Sony has not commented on either takedown, nor has it touched Bloodborne since The Old Hunters DLC was released in November 2015. These strikes, happening on the year of the game's anniversary, are incredibly bizarre. But maybe there's a reason.
If they plan on trademarking 'Bloodborne 60fps' and 'Bloodborne remake' they need to actually clean up.
In what McDonald admits is a "copium theory", he speculated that "Sony DMCAed the 60fps patch and the video about the Bloodborne demake so that when they announce a 60fps remake, Google searching for 'Bloodborne 60fps' and 'Bloodborne remake' won't have collisions with our fan projects".
It's worth noting that, while these strikes do coincide with the game's anniversary, and are towards old mods and videos, Sony hasn't completely left the Bloodborne community alone in the last ten years. Last January, the popular fan-made Bloodborne Kart (developed by...
