Earlier this month, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced that they would be memorializing a passed away developer in Shadow of War, which we reported on here. Since then, questions about the nature of the paid DLC delivery mechanism and how profits from its sale were being distributed to the developer's family have plagued WB, who has now clarified their intentions.
Due to the nature of charity laws, there was concern over WB not donating all the money to the family depending on where the DLC was purchased. Certain states and international purchases were relegated to asterisks, causing uproar among players in the ensuing weeks. This became further muddied by questions of profit versus revenue in the sales.
Warner Bros. have now made the DLC free available to everyone who owns the game. Warner Bros.' initial plan was to only promote the DLC in the areas where they could donate the money and seemingly did not expect questions that they were unable to answer about everywhere else. WB are now donating the money themselves independent of any DLC sales.
The publisher also explained that a factually incorrect tweet from their team about international funds not being included caused further confusion. Regardless, it has been clarified by WB that the DLC will be freely available from now on, making the memorial to developer Mike Forgey less fraught with controversy.
[Source: Warner Bros. Community Post]
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