Based

>ME ME ME ME
make your own game faggot

>>716018971 (OP)
or maybe devs should give as shit at all? once a consumer owns their product they shouldn't be able to do anything with it without the consumers consent unless they ruin others experience

>>716018971 (OP)
so... has this dude done anything since baldur's gate 3?

>>716019259
he's running the company that made it. they've started work on a new game, but their own IP

>Oi!.. you got a loicence for that mod giving them birds a big tit aye?

>>716019116
This. Fuck corpo scum.

>>716018971 (OP)
I love moding as an idea. Take the game, and add your own stuff to it, or transform it how you see fit.
But almost all the moders i personally know are drama quens and egomaniacs. And moders i know of are trannies and groomers on top of all the above

but you don't understand the developers work really hard and you gotta pay up or something...

>>716019859
True, yet somehow modding and fangames are the only bastion of true soul left in gaming.

No one itt ever worked on a mod

>>716019859
99% of modders are horrible people who will burn in hell.

A surprising number of them can make decent content that extends the lifespan of games I love. I played about 200 hours of Slay the Spire before I got bored of it. Modding add another 170+ hours of enjoyment to that.

For a game I bought for like $9 that is an incredible value and, credit where credit is due, the mentally ill and transexuals contributed to that..

>>716019116
that is literally what the TOS says, it's only if you distribute it to others then it becomes illegal because it's not your original work so you can't sell it or give it away

>>716019116
>>716019047
>>716018971 (OP)
mods are beneficial to game devs because it gives their games more life and is basically free DLC that will result in more sales. the only fags who seethe about it are ones who planned to sell a lot of DLC or the fags who own the engines who don't want the dev tools easily accessible

>>716018971 (OP)
>>716019116
Okay.
>hands out source for live service slop game nobody really cares much for
>bunch of retards try to run it
>inevitably, some giga autist makes it their passion project and manages to make the game playable after 5-10 years
>makes headlines
>people play for 5 minutes, immediately forgotten
I'm of the belief software and pretty much any digital product is free, since it essentially costs nothing to reproduce and distribute, but these games were never designed to last or be re-made. Should they just make single player games single player again, with some central server for online play? Yeah, absolutely, but we don't live in that world anymore.

>>716020358
Get off this board and go back to your sunday school you fucking schmuck

>>716018971 (OP)
"Devs should add more drag queens and queers" - Swen Vincke

release a full game first

>>716020358
>99% of modders are horrible people who will burn in hell.
This is horseshit. 99% of modders make tiny mods that are either QoL or small gameplay changes. The vast majority of mods get no comments and barely any downloads and certainly no drama.

>>716020518
It's11PM. Sunday school don't happen at night. Are you okay? Are the drugs and syphilis rotting your brainmeats? You turning into a cabbage head? Don't worry, I will pray for you. Hopefully God hasn't completely forsaken you and he will send you a message.

>>716020221
I wasted 5 years (and counting) on a mod

are the people behind thegamer paid to give the shittiest fucking takes possible?

>>716020779
shill yourself

>>716019259
Probably the company is working on their next GOTY?

>>716019465
There are still many devs today who expect modders to finish their games for them.

Only snoys unironically agree with this statement or support this retard.

>>716020816
I wont, it will end up in a doxx if i shill it here.

>>716021018
Are you still upset the man created best crpg of the decade?

Legally speaking Developers actually have no legal means to assert that they have any ownership stake over mods which is why it's all pursued by extra-legal means like ToS.
The copyright actually belongs to the person who makes the modification since they own and wrote the associated codebase.

>>716021208
Are you still upset the Switch 2 outsold both PS5 and Steam Deck in its first week alone?

>>716019259
Post launch support was pretty extensive.

>>716021436
Why would I be upset over something that isn't true?
Why would specifically fans of one console be the only ones who like mods? Mods are more of a PC thing, anon. Are you just a butthurt fanboy who is throwing a tantrum, saying no matter what?

>>716020963
>promise the modders paradise
>make it intentionally harder to mod than your own previous games
>frequently update the game to break mods but never add anything substantial yourself
What did Todd mean by this?

>>716021436
I have never played on a console in my life. PC all the way

>>716020963
>who expect modders to finish their games for them.
Only retards think this. Non retards and game devs know that more than 95% of people buying those games will never install a single mod.

>>716021597
60% of people that buy the game wont ever play it
I too can pull data out of my ass

>>716019465
>games back then
>modders add value = more purchases

>games now
>closed ecosystem to milk cosmetics
>matchmaking queue to force 'engagement' encounters or SBMM
>modders = sidetracking both of those, can't have that

>>716021547
Isn't that literally every Bethesda game? Took years for Skyrim and FO4 modding to match the previous games.

>>716021362
Pretty hilariously at best you can only hope to persuade people to very permissively license their shit TO YOU which is how the free software scene "works".

>oi m8, ur mod loicense?
how about I just do whatever I fucking want

>>716021743
>Isn't that literally every Bethesda game?
No not at all. It took 3 months for Skyrim to receive proper mod support and from that point it was up to the community to make whatever they want
Starfield had people wait for 9 months after its release to also publish proper modding tools but that's a minor issue compared to Bethesda did to Starfield's content packages. This system was the same for every one of their games since Morrowind and it worked splendidly but it was changed for Starfield and ended up making things much worse. Modding Starfield is far more difficult and unstable than any of their other games and the only people motivated to actually keep modding it are the creation club members that make paid mods in cooperation with Bethesda directly
It's a complete mess

>>716021743
>>716022207
They also just don't fix shit and rely on modders to patch it. I don't even know why people bother modding or playing these games, the combined autism of modders should be more than enough to create a much more open ended game for anyone to fuck with.

>>716018971 (OP)
If I buy a car it is my right to modify my property if I want to.

>>716019259
They are working on their next project. Once it is ready for early access they'll announce it.

>>716020963
Well you can't do much if foundation is utter shit and more complex to work with

>>716022710
Increasingly you don't have that right for cars anymore either.
Even if you "buy" the car you don't truly own it, the company just allows you to use it with no set time of returning

>>716022710
Software is not a tangible good so your analogy is fucking stupid. E for Effort for not picking food.

>>716022710
Akshully many countries prevent car mod culture because it can be distracting to other motorists plus whatever you do or install on your vehicle could result in accidents that weren't intended by the car manufacturer that designed you car to be road safe.

>>716023551
Copyright explicitly pertains to the manufacturing and distribution rights of goods, so if you're doing this "software" is like, erm, a service xD stuff you are implicitly also stating that copyright law doesn't actually apply.
Which is technically hilarious if you want to get into the DMCA and other digital ownership laws which actually had nothing to do with copyright (because there was no means to make copyright law apply in that case) and made it a separate crime to do things like circumvent drm.

>>716019331
>own IP
>Tencent owns like half of it
lmao

>>716020221
I ported assets from FO3 to FONV, and made myself a player home with NPC vendors. Does it make sense to include Winterized Combat Armor, and Mothership Zeta gear in NV? No, but I had fun doing it.
Also had to tweak some weapons, because I didn't like the MF Hyper Breeder Alpha's lasers weren't matching the hit sparks, and then I ended up making it compatible with with weapon attachments, but they weren't being reflected in the model so I had to fix that as well
>mfw the hats I added were hugging the side of my face, and I had to figure out what was going on
Ah, memories.
Just simple Gamebryo modding, and nothing too expansive.

>>716025493
>Look at the dates to see when TTW was released
>October 27th, 2012
>Finished my porting in August 22nd, 2012
Couple months after I finished porting that stuff, my work was effectively invalidated by Tale of Two Wastelands lel.

>>716018971 (OP)
It's crazy how far they've successfully lowered the bar for industry practices that the most basic bitch nothingburger take gets praise from the community like it's some brave moral assertion.

daily reminder this guy put just a little code line to let you change it and have full access to the mod toolkit and fucked fags of the coast, what a based lad

>>716020221
I made cozy house mods for Morrowind and Oblivion
I also ripped assets from various shooters and ported them into Fallout 4, but that was just to see if I could and I never uploaded any

>>716018971 (OP)
Despite the fact that their studio only churns out hyper-woke trash, in terms of plot, his pro-costumer stance is admirable.