Today, Devan made an important announcement about the inclusion of Total Drama in FFL, and its a very serious situation.
Heres what was said:
PLEASE NOTE: We ALWAYS intend to respect the
wishes and views of the rightful owners of the content we use. Should a
content owner disagree with what we’ve done using their content, we are
willing and intend to fully comply with their wishes.
We have recently received notification from a Fresh TV representative that they would like us to cease and desist inclusion of the Total Drama Franchise and all related characters, plots, properties, etc. As a result, we are fully complying and removing all Total Drama Franchise and related characters, plots, properties, etc. from FusionFall Legacy.
Of course as you might imagine, this does throw a little bit of a wrench in the chain, but considering our position, we’ll simply have to make due. As always, this is to be expected. We do not own any of the properties or characters we use. We are building Legacy as a labor of love and are not officially endorsed by Cartoon Network, Fresh TV, or any further content owners.
Separately, we will cease PotD production for September 25th moving forward until we've stabilized plans. Our apologies.
As always, FusionFall Legacy will continue development. Stay tuned for further information.
In short, or TL;DR (why wont you read it its very serious): Fresh TV doesnt want Total Drama to be featured AT ALL in FFL. As a result of this, TD is getting removed from the FFL storyline, canon and of course, POTDs.
Tbh, this really sucks, as it would have been really cool to see this awesome series brought to FFL, but since its a company which has the rights to the series, they decide what to do with it.
This also brings up an interesting point, as Total Drama is going to be brought back again (look it up it may come out by 2018), and also TD was never really featured in FusionFall, only thru items which arent gonna be in FFR. Because of this, TD wasnt even meant to appear in FFL.
Long ago, the devs said they had no plans to include it, as well as since it isnt a property made by CN, they would have to needed to get the approval of Fresh TV from the beginning to have plans for TD being included.
By any means, Im not bashing the devs nor complaining, all im saying is that TD being included would have needed to be thought more throughly, as just including it like that is infringing on the rights of Fresh TV.
As of now all mentions and POTDs about TD have been removed from the FFL website and twitter. We may need to remove them too from the blog, so if you see them disappear out of nowhere one day, thats why, as to not get ourselves into trouble with Fresh TV either.
~Plants10000
UPDATE: Made a response post regarding the TD POTD posts on the blog. Check it here.
UPDATE 2: Made a 2nd response post regarding sharing and seeing the TD POTD posts on here. Check it here.
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