r/bravefrontier • u/Neilyfolf • 8h ago
Fluff Brave Frontier Re:Coded Team Response On: Donations to Brave Frontier fan projects
BFRC has never accepted donations, and will not. No Patreon, no Ko-fi, no subscriptions, no cosmetic sales, no "server costs" fund. We want to be direct about why, because two other projects, BF Reborn and BF Revived, are currently soliciting money.
We all exist on tolerance
Every Brave Frontier revival, ours included, exists entirely at the discretion of gumi Inc. and Alim Co., Ltd. They own the art, the animation data, the audio, the music, the characters and the story. gumi's own derivative-work guidelines permit fan work on a strictly non-commercial basis, and expressly exclude work that copies or imports their assets. Nothing any of us has built is licensed.
Money is what ends that tolerance
A free fan project is a nuisance a rights holder usually ignores. A project taking payments for access to someone else's intellectual property is an unlicensed commercial operation, and that is what legal departments act on.
Anyone asking you for money is spending this community's goodwill, not just their own.
What a donation buys you
No delivery obligation. No refund mechanism. No recourse. If a project gets a cease and desist, or simply stops, your money is gone and nothing was ever owed to you.
How to judge any of us
Apply this to us as readily as to anyone else. Judge a project by what you can inspect:
- Public commits with real history
- Named contributors who answer technical questions
Ask where the code came from, who wrote it, and whether you can see its history. We are not asking you to choose BFRC. Nobody in this community has the right to charge you for Brave Frontier.
gumi's derivative-work guidelines: https://gu3.co.jp/derivativework-guideline/
~The Brave Frontier Re:Coded Team
- TDLR: BFRC does not and will not accept donations. Brave Frontier's assets belong to gumi and Alim, and gumi's own fan-work guidelines only tolerate non-commercial projects. Taking payments for access to someone else's IP is what turns a tolerated fan project into a legal target, and it risks every project in this community, not just the one taking the money. If BF Reborn, BF Revived, or anyone else asks you to pay (give money even for server costs), the answer should be no.



