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".
The original conceit of Primagens iirc was a personal thing for the creator and their partner that a bunch of randos immediately wanted in on because furries love to flock to the nearest shiny new thing, so I have a bit of sympathy as far as not wanting it to be for everyone who wants one.
But also if you're not looking to interact within the space, why care if there's a blacklist? It won't effect you.
There's also nothing stopping anyone from just making a species that all have screen faces/are cyborg furries that aren't 'official' Protogens, since the creator doesn't own the concept of 'cyborg with a screen face' or even 'dinosaur-adjacent mammalian cyborg furry with a screen face'.I mean if that's the case just take the "Chinese knock off" and make a character out of them, they aren't absolutely different. Really any time you hear Protogen people assume you mean the open-to-everyone kind anyways so idk what the deal is if they are available to use.
It'll just be no different from TiTS never having Sergals bc of similar reasons tbh. And that's always been shot down.
