Right. But see, this is what I'm talking about. You put your stuff out there, in public, for everyone to see, and then you get pissy about it when people don't want to pay 1,000 to get permission to make their own character. I've heard there's some kind of "blacklist" of people who have made primagen ocs without permission, and I'm just like "wuht". And personally i find the public domain Chinese knockoff thing to be insulting. It's like the creator is saying "oh you dont want to pay up? Alright then take this other thing and fuck off".I think it might be the other way around. Protogens are a variant of primagens. Protogens were made open to the public domain so people didn't have to pay over $1,000 to get an official art commission for a primagen OC created for them.
Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? Yes absolutely, and I don't care.