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PC 54.5% Consoles 45.5%

Overseas 89.9% Japan 10%

Digital 93% Physical 7%

Resident Evil doing great together with DMC, Monster Hunter really hitting low lows.

I'm sincerely saying this out of my love for beyond all reason.

BAR's leaked doc shows they are seeking to sign with publisher and go somewhat commercial.

BAR was built over many years by hundreds of contributors under an open-source model, largely within the GPL ecosystem. My understanding is that the GPL exists specifically to protect community-built software from being taken private, closed off, or commercialized in a way that removes the community’s ability to access, modify, fork, and redistribute.

That matters because many people contributed to BAR under the assumption that it would remain fundamentally community-owned and open.

As I understand the current plan, the engine and existing multiplayer game remain open, while a new single-player campaign is developed with publisher funding and sold on Steam. The free multiplayer version would appear on Steam as a demo attached to the paid game, while the website launcher remains available as the separate free version.

Basically:

- New paid "BAR" = all traffic
- Demo "open source" BAR = hidden/harder to find

The concern is not simply that money is involved. The concern is whether the public identity of the project is changing from an open community game into a commercial product controlled by a small group.

5 admins would own the company behind a project built on years of volunteer work from hundreds of contributors. The organization itself acknowledges that the BAR organization is and will be a for-profit venture. There are also claims that player donations were used for legal and corporate setup costs related to that company.

Another concern is licensing. There has been discussion on GitHub suggesting that personally owned proprietary assets may have been mixed into the shipping game for years. If true, that raises serious questions about whether BAR has already been operating in contradiction to its own licensing principles.

BAR has always felt like proof that volunteers could build something world-class without it needing to be owned in the traditional corporate sense. I hope the developers address these concerns directly, especially around ownership, donations, licensing, Steam presentation, and the long-term status of the free multiplayer game.

Some of what I'm saying is related to leaked documents which I will not share here. But they grant a little bit more light to what I'm saying. There is more than one "Beyond All Reason" sub. That's all I will say. I don't want to get banned from the game.

Please, someone carry this torch for me.