KRIMSONKATT'S PROFILE

author=benos
The gaming world was rocked today when a group of hackers revealed that the popular RPG Maker game series was actually vulnerable to security breaches. According to the hackers, the game's developers had failed to adequately protect the game's code, allowing them to easily decrypt the game's content. What's more, the hackers revealed that the game was actually using ripped assets from other popular games, including popular titles such as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. The news has sent shock waves throughout the gaming community, with many players now questioning the security of the RPG Maker series. Developers are now racing to patch the security flaws, but some gamers are already calling for a boycott of the series until the security issues are addressed.

IT'S OVER.

author=Strak
I could be wrong here, but I think most people are willing to forgive overused resources for a free RPG Maker game. If you have the same free music as 101 other games but you have a unique story to tell or unique gameplay, most people won't care. Yeah, a lot of crap games used the same resources, but if yours has the effort put in, most people will re-contextualize that resource with a decent game as opposed to the atrocities out there. And the ones that don't probably aren't your target audience anyway, since they'll judge EVERYTHING about your game, not just the resources, so ignore them. Now, if your game is commercial, different story. Pay for resources in that case. It's the right and ethical thing to do. And if you can't afford to, don't go commercial. Period. You can't afford to. But if it's a free game, don't worry about what other people are using. Find something free and rewrite the brand for that resource.

author=Marrend
I don't pretend to know the precise circumstances of the denial of the specific game you mentioned, but, here's a bit of an except from the rules regarding the use of other people's resources, including rips.

https://rpgmaker.net/submission_rules/
So long as you do not claim or imply that someone else's graphics are your own, it is not considered plagiarism at this site. However, using someone else's graphics against their wishes is frowned upon and will be dealt with should the creator object.

*Edit: I think I recall, back in the day, of this craptastrophe. Basically, somebody, attempted to make a remaster/remake of Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, branding it as being backed by Square-Enix (no-surprise-spoiler: it wasn't), and using a combat engine they never had permission to use, and never credited to it's original creator. There is this post from said creator about this, but, I'd rather not dig up more details.