• dumbass@leminal.space
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    3 days ago

    The thing that annoys me about game companies that are against mods is, it will boost your sales, people need your game to run the mods… I’ve started playing games I normally wouldn’t go out of my way to, just because I could mod it, let me fix your game to fit my play style, I know a dragon skinned like Macho Man Randy Savage isn’t true to the story, but it is to my story.

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      3 days ago

      They also profit from game design that started from mods so it’s ok to take for them

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      2 days ago

      The thing that annoys me about game modders is that they never seem to learn the lesson that they should just build on top of a FOSS game instead.

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        2 days ago

        Why should it matter? No, seriously, why should we give up that right? If they want to disable online features like multiplayer or leaderboards then so be it - that’s understandable. Mods drive sales and interest in the very games they’re trying to sell.

        And people do mod FOSS games, wdym

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    2 days ago

    I feel like mods should be protected like ‘right to repair’. I know that seems a bit extreme but seriously, these people devote their time to create insane content, more often than not for free. I played Oblivion for hundreds of hours just because there were sooooo many mods for it. ARK is another example.

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      There’s a way to do that: it’s called “build your mod on top of a FOSS game instead of proprietary shit.”