Reject_666_6 said:First of all, they're going overboard with these expansions.
Yeah . . . 'cause if there's one thing that sucks for modders, it's the developer continuing to support and add on to their game for years, bringing in new players and keeping the community active.
Reject_666_6 said:Apart from putting out so many unnecessary expansions, they have gone one step further and decided to hire mod teams to make stand-alone versions of the games they were modding and sell them for $$$.
Good point. Paradox has stumbled across the most successful possible way to discourage modding: pay the modders. Because, you know, giving people money for doing something usually makes them stop.
Reject_666_6 said:All this disruption and employment has the effect of completely drying up the mods for their latest generation of games: Hearts of Iron III and Victoria 2.
Oh no, not employment!!! (Also, Vicky 2 has an active mod community, but is too recent to have many mods yet, and HoI 3 simply isn't as popular as -- for example -- EU3.
Reject_666_6 said:they added so many modder-friendly features in HoI3 it's ridiculous
Reject_666_6 said:It's like Paradox is actively trying to stop people form modding their games
Yes . . . that makes sense . . .