Far as I know, no, since I’m sure Crate would have mentioned them if they were. They know how much the fans would like to buy GD merchandise. And you can’t get anything official because there’s nothing available. Crate aren’t doing merchandising.
Effectively, yes. Though they say it’s fan art you can see that some of them have only changed the colour and nothing else. For the constellation ones I don’t think they’ve even done that, just lifted it straight from the game.
I’m kinda curious how it is for selfmade T-Shitrs if you print then some sort of Artwork and stuff on it. So don’t print it for selling purpose but for private use. Is that Legal?
Absolutely strictly speaking no, but as Denis showed in the quote so long as you’re not profiting from it Crate won’t come knocking at your door.
What the problem is with this site is that some of the artwork on the shirts is a straight lift from the game and they are profiting from it so that is illegal since they don’t have permission to use the artwork.
The biggest hurdles to physical merchandise are the amount of time it would take to manage and the low profit margins that make it difficult to justify the time investment.
That said, having some physical merch would be pretty cool!
(in regards to the aforementioned link in the OP, none of that is legitimate and anyone profiting from our barely modified imagery is breaking the law)
I don’t know anything about the merchandise market but I’d be surprised if there were no third-party companies to do that managing, grant a licence for them to use the art or something?
I imagine low-profit margins are an unfortunate reality however t-shirt printing is arranged.
The game is very successful. I wonder how many sales you’d get for merch like the t-shirt from the post above. I’d have thought it would be respectable though.