Do you think games should allow modding? 🐦 Follow me on Twitter! twitter.com/GoingIndieYT

@beefchopstick

26 күн бұрын

yeah!

@kewinzabojca7226

26 күн бұрын

obviously

@Mad_dognz

26 күн бұрын

Why not?

@jarrellfamily1422

24 күн бұрын

Modding is the best thing to happen in video games ever up there with 3d visuals, online play, and indie games

@Gamerboy-qg7lq

23 күн бұрын

Bethesda is selling third party mods

Mods are what prevent games from getting stale.

@Vajra717

26 күн бұрын

Skyrim is a perfect example for that. Look up “Skyrim Ultima” that modded version looks like a completely different game.

@LukieLuke5

25 күн бұрын

Which is actually a reason for Developer to dislike them. As unless it's a live service game, they want you to buy the new one not play the old one.

@LG555

25 күн бұрын

Which is why Nintendo is so hard against them.

@alface935

25 күн бұрын

​@@LukieLuke5 True The Call Of Duty series for example releases a new game every year since 2003 and They want You to always buy the newest game every year and thats why We haven't have mod support since Call Of Duty 12 Black Ops 3 from 2015 and prior to Black Ops 3 the last game to have mod support was Call Of Duty 7 Black Ops 1 from 2010 No wonder Black Ops 3 is still the 2nd most played Call Of Duty game on Steam (As of the time of this comment) with 8,596 players playing right now

@DRAGONSAREPRETTYCOOL

24 күн бұрын

True

minecraft wouldn't even be close to today if it didn't have mods

@user-od2qc2od1y

26 күн бұрын

Agreed as a kid I watched a lot of modded minecraft

@illpunchyouintheface9094

25 күн бұрын

Yea games like Minecraft would probably died out years ago if it wasn’t for mods

@NaoyaYami

16 күн бұрын

And Bethesda would die out after releasing Oblivion.

@andersonsansonowski5644

5 күн бұрын

Then imagine steam

@UnknownHumanJoe

14 сағат бұрын

Modded Minecraft videos is the reason I bought the game as a kid. Then I realized the Java mods I’m watching on KZread doesn’t work on bedrock edition.

Mods are harmless at worst (unless its multiplayer cheating mods), and MUTUALLY BENEFITIAL at best.... Yet despite this, companies are stupid. "Don't be creative, just buy products and mindlessly consume. How dare you touch my IP!"

@MitternachtssternXIII

25 күн бұрын

If everyone would cheat noone would care

@DRAGONSAREPRETTYCOOL

24 күн бұрын

so true

@toolazytobeoriginal4587

23 күн бұрын

video game helicopter parenting

@chaoticclonestudios

22 күн бұрын

Its because they dont want the game to better on its own they want the game to die so that youll buy the next one

@lasercraft32

22 күн бұрын

@@chaoticclonestudios True...

Fuck 'em! Most of these studios, who employ literal armies of lawyers, started out as modders in the '90s.

@megaman37456

12 күн бұрын

FACTS! Also agreed, Fuck 'em. If by some miracle of God they actually manage to outlaw modding in the US, I don't care, I'll still mod my games.

@sarahsturgill9262

11 күн бұрын

@@megaman37456 Wouldn't call that a miracle of God, that scenario would be a tragedy.

@megaman37456

11 күн бұрын

@@sarahsturgill9262 I say a Miracle of God because only Gods power could make that 0% scenario happen.

Beware, your mustache could get you a copyright strike from Nintendo

@jollygoodfellow3957

9 күн бұрын

Mario's stache curves up, so he will be ok.

What annoys me more than the state of the gaming industry Are the consumers who buy the following psyops hook line and sinker and try to propagate the following nonsense to other people: -"free community Mods dont immortalize a game's lifespan or benefit its creators in any way" -"you need cosmetics or some form of p2w, lootbox, ads, dlc, or microtransaction for the game to make money" -"piracy is stealing and hurts the game" -"Buying extra stuff and preorders all support the devs and not the publisher" -"it has to have a progression or XP system to be a fun longterm experience" -"you shouldnt just 'have everything' out of the gate" -"you need centralized servers, because if a player were able to buy dedicated servers and host them it would have constant unplayable connection issues" -"stop complaining" -"paying a premium to play online is necessary" -"something requiring a link to your email, phone, and common password is necessary" -"its in alpha its supposed to be shitty - stop complaining" -"its in beta is supposed to be shitty - stop complaining" -"its only JUST came out - its supposed to need a week 1 patch - stop complaining" -"its only been out for 6 months - they are working on updates to fix all that stuff - stop complaining"

@clobzz

12 күн бұрын

literally real

@HypercomboProduction

11 күн бұрын

Was the pre alpha stuff about Multiversus? I heard they finished that one.

@fluffypinkpandas

10 күн бұрын

@@HypercomboProduction about all pre alpha stuff. or even the eternal pre alpha known as star shitizen

@HypercomboProduction

10 күн бұрын

@@fluffypinkpandas ok, thanks!

ah yes corporate copyright, with the rampant of AI, I am starting to be concern of the future of copyrights

@primus0348

17 күн бұрын

Corps are really making sure that you give them and only them Money with nothing in return, they're Truly Scumbags that don't deserve Fans Respect if they cant even Respect Fans of their IPs.

@onlyyoucanstopevil9024

6 күн бұрын

COPYRIGHT STILL THERE, BUT HAVE NO ACTUAL POWER

In many cases, mods should fall under fair use for parody. I think a flying, fire breathing, Thomas the Tank Engine would fall under that. The problem modders face is that it is too expensive to fight the lawsuits.

@kaden-sd6vb

9 күн бұрын

Good ol corporate-corrupted courts.

Mods are literally....ways to play a game you wish was in the game. Or wanted....if you own the game. You should be allowed to do WHATEVER you want to it. As long as its not a Multiplayer game. Unless its a private server with friends and setups for players to try if they want to. Edit: fuck copyright laws. If the game is like OVER 10years old. Who cares if theres a SpongeBob mod in a game. Or Mario in a JDM racing game. Its old. And no one is shaming anyones brand. Literally doesn't harm people if they don't play the mods or even when they see vidoes of it. Like who cares?

Imagine getting mad at a train setting a house on fire in a non-profit mod

Jealousy. Its very common and pretty normal human vice.

@sean7221

7 күн бұрын

It's more prevalent in jews

@MIKE2111ful

4 күн бұрын

​@@sean7221😂😂😂

Remember when Valve introduced the idea of paid mods on Steam Workshop like in 2015? Thank God they've quickly gave up on that idea, or else the Steam Workshop would feel like the new App Store.

@dennisthemenace567

26 күн бұрын

It would probably lead to more fun games if modders could easily sell downloads without valve/patreon demanding their overpriced fees

@lisaruhm6681

26 күн бұрын

@@dennisthemenace567 or the opposite, of everything costing money.

@kreenbopulusmichael7205

25 күн бұрын

valve gets way too much credit for how many lame things theyve released onto the world "loot boxes and battlepasses"

@SolantisA

25 күн бұрын

Wasn't that Bethesda? I'm pretty sure Valve didn't do that on their own, they are quite content at negotiating with workshop creators to get their stuff into dota, csgo and tf2

@kreenbopulusmichael7205

25 күн бұрын

@@SolantisA no, bethesda actually did it

It was litteraly a troll using a domain similar to Nintendo’s to make it seem like it was coming from Nintendo.

@aporue5893

21 күн бұрын

ohhh.....that makes sense.

@dudemp4

17 күн бұрын

its confirmed to be nintendo sadly

@rockysolid4200

17 күн бұрын

Because the devs didn’t bother investigating.

@CaptainBloodsail

9 күн бұрын

So the whole Destiny copyright thing again cause a guy was mad and wanted to cause damage to both the community and the company

@Manavine

9 күн бұрын

Nope, person in question was linked to a previous instance of someone who thought it was a troll and ignored and nearly got nuked for it.

Title: "Video Game Mods Are In Danger" Conclusion: "Modding Won't Be Going Anywhere" 🙄

@v5hr1ke

13 күн бұрын

True answer: "Modding Won't Be Going Anywhere, But These Are In Danger"

Valve encouraged it Counter Strike was a mod for Half Life until it became a standalone game same thing with Cry of Fear, Day of Defeat, Garry'mod, The Stanely Parable, Team Fortress Classic and more. It could be a potential for modders.

Minecraft is a VERY pro mods game, as I would bet you it would have died years ago if not for mods.

I am a living proof that mods increase market share - I have over 200 hours in Hearts of Iron and have never touched the base game. The sole reason I got this game is the Equestria at War mod, and in turn me playing the mod and talking about it made at least four of my friends buy HoI4 to play the mod in multiplayer. Also, no such thing as copyright. There is only copywrong. It's an archaic remnant of a bygone age, unfit for the modern day. It needs to be reworked from ground up, it's current essence shredded into oblivion.

@ClockShaft

9 күн бұрын

BASED TRVTHNVKE KEKERALD

About the family friendly argument, if a kid is already old and smart enough to know how to install mods, you can be ABSOLUTELY SURE he is already seeing NSFW stuff elsewhere. What one person mods in their games DOES NOT appears in others' games.

Modding Community carried Bethesda on their back

DONT BUY 90% OF TRIPLE A!!

I think video game mods will survive this problem in the future because some game developers will make video game mods be evolved and be different in the future of video games in their way so they don't have to worry about the problems you listed and I have optimistic that video game mods will be here for a long time and great video Going Indie :]

As someone who loves modding games like gmod(hell, still has the highest playtime on my steam account, because of mods), skyrim, kenshi etc, bloody hell do i hate modern gaming. Bamco going after modders of Tekken 8 that create visual mods because they added Tekken shop to the game(without so much as warning people before release about it and specifically waited a month so people can't refund which is infuriating to say the least) and it'll cut the revenue from it because of lackluster free customization is the most relevant example and is one of the things that's wrong with modern gaming industry.

Many people play some games because of the mods 🤣🤣

Terraria and Re-Logic are another great example of a game developer being open and communicative to the modding scene extremely well. Mod support for the game did start out as a community effort through Tmodloader, but Relogic would later begin to collaborate with the people behind TML to make it an official DLC for Steam, integrating its functionality into Steam Workshop, making it even easier to download and enjoy mods. On top of that, since Tmodloader runs off of a separate instance of the game, it's not negatively impacted by official game updates (when they inevitably happen anyway lol). They even work alongside modders themselves, giving them the resources and tools to begin the process of migrating their mods to the latest game version before releasing those builds to the public, meaning players don't have to wait for mods to be brought up to date. They're probably the best example you can find right now of a game developer interacting with their modding community in a positive way, apart from Valve and Epic anyway.

0:14 Todd's probably the biggest defender of mods in the AAA space. Sure, Bethesda can do better, especially when it comes to communication, but they've benefitted greatly from the mods made in their creation kits, and Todd knows this. To say "slowly creators of our favorite games have become hostile towards mods" and have Todd show up right after Rockstar (which is actually hostile) is VERY misleading.

@nocaptcha8110

26 күн бұрын

He also released starfield hoping modders fix his game. Modders tried and said it wasn't worth lol

@gearsfan6669

19 күн бұрын

@@nocaptcha8110 without the official mod tools it can't, can't expect them to do much beyond basic things when it's a whole new version of the Creation Engine, even if some things are the same the inner workings are completely different. With Skyrim and Fallout 4 the mod authors had years worth of experience in the engine because of games like New Vegas and Oblivion and the amount of available guides for those games being the stepping stones for mod authors of newer games to learn from, Starfield everyone is pretty much starting from scratch

@maxmikester8185

14 күн бұрын

@lucas182512 You say that and then they updated fallout 4, breaking every mod right when the big mod Fallout London was gonna release. Of course they wanna may sure you are using their PAID MODS and not NEXUS!

@lucas182512

13 күн бұрын

@@maxmikester8185 Which is why i said they could do better with communication. Echoing the words of the fallout london project lead. That said, people really overreact when bethesda releases patches "breaking their mods". If you mod bethesda games, you should know that running the game using the script extender will bypass any steam update. And even if steam updated your game, the first mod that gets released after those mod-breaking updates are version downgraders. You cant even say "but if I downgrade, i wont be able to install the newest mods", because the overwhelming majority of new mods maintain support for the the older, popular game version. This is true in both fallout 4 (v 1.10.163) and skyrim se (v 1.5.97). Personally, I would have simply released London for 1.10.163. People can simply downgrade.

@lucas182512

13 күн бұрын

My problem with bethesda patches for old games like skyrim and fallout 4, is that they dont add anything. they are crap patches. the newest fallout 4 "next gen" patch makes a difference in consoles. it does nothing on pc. it just "breaks" mods. whatever, downgrade or skip the update (what I did)

A lot of the tension between a community and a company can be eased with small clarifications, eg “We do not support modding, so when a new patch comes out things may be broken. If you do make stuff for our game, please keep it SFW and don’t touch our multiplayer mode. Our anti cheat will kill you”

Congratulations on getting to 100k subscribers Going Indie and let's gooooooooooooooooo :]

Banning mods is the equivalent of dodging the IRS, you're gonna lose at the end of the day and it will bite you in the ass...

Games N E E D mods. I use mods to add accessibility features that game devs don't add. I can't enjoy GTA V without adding a menu that allows me to skip levels that force me to shoot enemies from far away. I have a hard time enjoying Stardew valley without texture mods that makes the edges more visible. There are a lot more games that I don't know of yet that I could enjoy more with mods.

Love how companies don't realize mods are actually promoting longevity

Stop 🛑 corporate greed. Good video, spread the word!

It sounds like the amount of mods allowed depends on the type of game and time. I can see fighting games limiting costume mods because the developers want to sell skins to players. That being said, it would be good to allow the mods after a certain period of time. I am thinking the best time would be when the developers announce they are no longer updating the game. This would allow the modders to go crazy and possibly draw in new people in. These new people buy the game and everyone wins.

@dudemp4

17 күн бұрын

the problem for the publisher is that people wont buy the sequel

I’m not even a gamer but the quality of your videos is impressive, entertaining, and easy to follow… just subbed!!

make the mods, don't tell anyone you're making them until they're done, don't put your name on them, release them into the wild, allow other modders to update them, join them in updating the mods posing as a random mod dev

I remember over ten years ago someone from Arabian countries told me on skype how to install GTA 4 mods and it felt so magical to play with mods for the first time. Those were times

Stopping modders from modding is going to be far more difficult than stopping pirates from pirating, and you can't stop pirates from pirating.

Lethal company has crazy mods for a lil indie game

Greed will be the end of us. 🖤

Nintendo has always been openly hostile to mods. And a lot of japanese devs are somewhat also. Bethesda would never deny modding. It's what makes their games playable

Mods is insane important to the gaming industry i care say it is a piller that keep the industry going: alot of newer game dev. today started out as modder for a game becuase modding a game like a QoL mod, adding Goku to Smash & etc. is teaching how to do alot of the game dev. stuff in a alot easier entry barrier than open up a game engine a Smash like game pixelart styled called Rivals of Aether got Steam workshop: it got really boosted in playbase on that after it got launched mods dont hurt their brand infact its brings in new fans if it was not for the unwritting rule of thomas needs to be modded into a new game at this point people wont know about thomas in today´s age properly and that just 1 example of many

When (or if) I ever make a game, I want to make sure that by the first month of release that people will have already modded in anime girls and/or Thomas the Tank Engine to my game. That's how much mod support that I want to add to my games.

On the Nintendo multiplayer mods: getting network management up like that needs you to crack their firmware which is a security risk.

honestly i think what happened with nintendo and gmod is only an issue that can happen with platforms that have bulit in mod support. a lot of modding sites are based in countries that have way more relaxed ip law.

Happy 100K subs!!

Please no, modding games makes them so much more fun

It always boils down to short sighted greed. This is usually what happens when studios grow into big bloated corps. They become inefficient and slow. They get stingy but they bleed from all sides. The employee pool grows so large that they can barely move in any direction. They begin leaning on the state to prop them up which affects all of us too. Same shit different industry but they usually end up collapsing in on their own weight. There will be a major downturn which will roll the Triple A market but it will be a renaissance for the independents.

By copywriting certain mods and games the company themselves bring bad brand recognition because of that. How much did Pokemon suffered or Palworld grow when Nintendo took down the pokemon mods.

Congrats on 100k Subs!

me everytime i start a new rimworld run "this time i go vanilla!" ... 10 minutes later "atleast i should get some qol mods" 30 minutes and 600 mods later "well,next time vanilla"

Thanks a lot ! This came just in timeeee I'm doing copyright issues on video games 🤣

i hate it when so many good mods get lost thanks to copyright

I mainly play games alone and not in multi-player so modding for me just makes gaming more exciting and fun. And the stuff is free usually so no need to wonder if I'll be able to buy a DLC this month or have to wait.

5:30, but that's a non-issue for developers. They released the tool to modify the game, they didn't tell their fans to break copyright.

I saw you at a talk at my school, and got jump scared by seeing the face of someone I met on KZread because I had forgot we met lol

Mod support with clear guidelines is definitely the way to go, especially since creativity is becoming a greater motivation to play games.

Mods are the reason why Team Fortress 2 exists, and that’s why I’ll always support mods.

Modding is a great way to put our own challenge or story on an existing game. Or fan-translating! Depending on the nature of modding, it shows that the original game can be better or that thing can be fixed for a few hours. I got into modding because it is an activity idea, I share video and tools but the lack of resources for some lose me interest. For years of modding, I expected more. I am scared that if the dev focus on anti-modding tool, the game wouldn't be great.

Mods increase the shelf life of games, making them live longer than it's normal lifespan as it lets you personalize your experience.

3:25 but they can. In fact thats whats creation kit or even the new redkit for witcher 3 are. The dev tools can be released, its just most dont.

There’s a mod for Watch Dogs that restores most things that were cut from the game and there’s a faction redux mod too that messes with the police in the game. Modding is good if done right or what is right in corporate eyes.

''consume,consume,consume.'' 🙄

Yeah, I really don't get how it's so difficult for these gaming companies to figure this simple concept out. I mean, I was really really hoping that Lethal Company would get them to finally understand that mods are what sells it. And that you don't need to make the next biggest game to be successful, just a fun one.

I agree and I know these people are trying to get rid of mod because they’re hurting assets, but there could be good and bad mods just because it’s their IP creativity is not a crime. The only creativity it’s not a crime if you break the law as long as Valve and Mojang continue to support mods mods continue to do the right way.

Here's the answer on how to save modes, abolish shareholding in general. The reason, is that they're the ones that're making companies money corrupt and terrible decisions like this. They give little to no effort of the effort of the product the company makes, care only about choices that would only give them a good profit instead of the consumers needs, and they're the biggest cause of causing companies to go bankruptcy for the copious amount of terrible choices they make companies make. Thumbs up if you all agree with me here.👍

3:44 100% untrue.

I hope Todd realizes that mods sell his games

At the start you mentioned that modders can't use the same tools as the Devs, to my knowledge Arma 4 is allowing modders to use the dev tools to make mods

The key word is toy company: Nintendo does NOT treat games as games but more as TOYS so in a toy company, would u allow people to easily change the toy with no check of quality? No is probrably the answer right 'cause u wouldn't want anything like that

While I don't believe the corporations can do anything about individual modding for one's personal experience however, I anticipate that those corporations are training AI at this time to search through millions of videos to copyright strike them if any of that corporation's IP happens to be in them. The reason why modding has thrived thus far is because enforcing an anti-modding policy was a drain on manpower. Once manpower is no longer a problem then the corporations will have the power to pick and choose the who can and cannot make money creating content of or with their IP.

If AAA game publishers were focused on making games that gamers want instead of playing the stock market to provide huge profits to profiteers who are not even gamers, the modding scene would be a lot smaller. So frankly? Fuck em.

watch out the nintendo people are gonna try to take this amazing video down 😥

1. Threats on the internet deserve no mention. 2. Getting angry because a new game is getting patches is shortsighted at best and childish at worse. 3. There is nothing an ip owner can do as long as the modder isn't making it a paid service. I'm not a heavy modder but I've been doing it since Quake or Unreal. Running around as Homer, Batman and Bender with voice lines 'Bite my shinny metal.... Great times. Publishers and ip owners are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to lock this down.

@AnnCatsanndra

26 күн бұрын

Strong disagree with 1. There's been enough times where people went from "exaggerated" threats online to active doxxing, sending questionable packages, or smashing people's windows that I think not only does it deserve mention, but the people responsible for making the threats should be heavily scrutinized by their community. And if the overall community sentiment towards threats against people who make the game one is modding is "eh, just ignore it" then people shouldn't be surprised when devs start actively shutting down communications with their community.

@poppyrider5541

26 күн бұрын

@@AnnCatsanndra You're wrong. 99.99% of threats made online are nonsense. You know this and I know this. If you think a threat is credible call the cops. Do you know what happens when you call the cops? They tell you not to talk about it. aka anyone complaining about it does not feel threatened.

@DeathClawDC

25 күн бұрын

your 3 is wrong my free mods did get taken down by nintendo , even the gmod mods in steam workshop are being taken down

@tobyzilla2.074

15 күн бұрын

​@DeathClawDC wait even other mods that aren't Nintendo are getting taken down including original mods that don't have a known ip in it

I think it should be illegal for these companies to go against their players

When Sega decides to not allow modes then it's over for the modes.

Modding is a double edge sword. On one end, it is the easiest way to keep a game alive for a long time, with minimal to no effort. On the other end, you never know what is modded into the game. example, take a typical WW2 themed FPS game. When allowing modder to roam free, the possbility are endless. We have the harmless mod of adding a zombies, knights or spaceships. We can also have the R21 mod of female soldiers in bikini on the battlefield. We may also find the definately-should-not-be-modded Nazis and gas chambers. That is the core isse, we dont know what the modders will make. As such, I propose that modding should not be restricted, but must be regulated.

If I made a video game I would actually want people to mod it, because it will likely make it last longer, and get me more customers. Like I wanted minecraft and skyrim specifically because of how easy it was to mod them.

@kydayearctic5988

2 күн бұрын

I wish they fixed copyright, so we can mod our favorite characters in other games, since its not like it would really effect the copyright holder. Copyright owners have the right to sue modders, but their being dicks if they do.

Screw companies. What I mod is my game that I paid for, and I do what I please.

6:47 makes sense

Now Manor Lords just came into my mnd.... While the solo dev work hard, he can't keep up with the inevitable mod releases, hindering his job to create a game that he envision. I mean, it's suck to see other tinkering with what you create with years of planning, worst is, to see the player demands that the mod become the core of the game. It's like cooking a dish, planned all the ingredient, but somebody ended up seasoning your own dish. It sucks both way. I guess both the dev and modders shouldn't restrict each other business, but for godsake, if the Dev update a game that makes mod don't work, don't blame the devs!

Congrats on 100k

@GoingIndie

25 күн бұрын

Thank you!!

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I hope companies like Nintendo realize they merely seem like children when they attack modders over IP infringement as if it’s some incriminating hobby, I mean you cannot reason that they did this for reputatable or monetary reasons, they attacked the GMOD Steam workshop, that’s just abstract.

I’m gonna mod even more

I love to see modders. Actually Delveopers and publishers could also benefit financially if they were smart and not greedy

Can't wait for Monster Hunter Wilds, I will probably put many hundreds of hours into it. But the recent stand Capcom is taking against mods worries me. I don't want to cheat, I don't want nudity mods, but I love being able to install qol mods. The reason there was a "Make drops more visible" and a "show monster weaknesses on their icon instead of going through several menus to find them" mod was a huge factor for me buying Monster Hunter World and it's expansion again on steam after putting over 1.000 hours into it on console.

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If modders would just make stuff that is original. Copypasting copyrighted IP to games is not very productive use of your time and you will get bashed by the IP holder if the stuff gets popular at all. All the actually important mods are original content. DayZ didn't have to go copy any IP. Original TeamFortress or Counter-Strike, no IP theft. Dota, no need to steal anything. Just make mods without abusing other people's IPs already. And yes, I understand why modders do such things - they are usually young and don't really see the problem especially as it *is* legal for their personal use and fun. Problems being when they start distributing it... and big companies have no option - they HAVE to protect their IP.

If they don't throw up strict limitations on "intellectual property" then the edges of which intellectual property is which becomes blurred 🙄 because it's all actually only ideas - they have to squelch things like modding and fan art to maintain the overarching illusion. it's stupid

I mostly play single player games nowadays - got tired of PvP and multiplayer. So mods can easily freshen up a game for me, or even make me get a new game. (Came across a mod for Zelda totk the other day, made me want to get it and a switch.)

More people should start calling it copyWRONG. Fight it at every opportunity. Never give in. Be the hydra.

Well yes but, is it even possible to stop mods?, I mean some one can just even take cheat engine and change their game on the fly, for something like that to be enforced, they would need to release an operative system specifically designed to detect and block mods, then hope no one mods that operative system. Also we may need to see the numbers, but I don't think that mods can hurt a brand, even a simple mod requires several steps and often crashes the game, so you can't mod a game by accident.

They should add magikarp/gyarados and feebass/milotic to this game

Mod always been cool addition for me My favorit mod is terraria calamity I doubt you can consider calamity as normal terraria It is feel like seperate game that why i love it

If modding have been banned or not dicovered in early 90s we wouldnt have counter strike or dota.

What a great moustache. Congrats

If it's PvP or a mod would impact someone else's experience, then it shouldn't be modded. But for single player games, PvE, old games...mod mod mod mod!!!

This is a big one -> One of the tools are software devs have to prove work to get hired is by making mods. Games that got their start as a mod; Counter Strike and DOTA are two that I know. Bethesda might have been a failed studio without mods.

Modding sites bending the knee is the biggest danger to mods. First they came for the rainbow flag removal mods..

i think at the point that fortnite and league of legends literally exist cuz mods, the fact minecraft is even popular cuz mods, otherwise minecraft would be dead game years ago, tells us that mods ultimately make games and make people rich. to deny mods would be to deny a huge part of gaming history and what gaming is. mods are a foundational pillar of gaming. gaming would decline and probably die out without modding.