It isn't (or more accurately isn't the only one), but that's because smarter options are possible.
With mod, like with cheat code, you know that you are overriding the way game is meant to be played.
That only works if either:
tl;dr. We're talking about the OP's suggestion here, dredging decade-old posts of yours isn't gonna help. Explain your point or shut up about it.
That is precisely my point. People will go to great lengths to savescum if they want to savescum. What exactly is gained by forbidding them the option? Why do you want to dictate how they play their game? Is your willpower that low that you can't resist the temptation of savescumming at all, and need to have the option taken away from you entirely? Like an alcoholic with his drinks?
Thinking like you do, that the only possible result of failed rolls is an early aborted playthrough, is exactly why savescumming exists. It might be too difficult for you to wrap your head around it, but maybe consider the possibility of failure states that DON'T end the playthrough early? Working around failed rolls and working with the party to provide alternatives has been working for PnP RPGs for literal decades. A computer game can never offer the depth of alternatives that a human DM can, of course, but there is no reason at all to offer nothing but simple Pass/Fail checks. No reason other than laziness or lack of creativity.
Amen. The save mod went on my copy of KCD like ten minutes after I finished the install.exe minigame. If I ruin my experience by savescumming, I've only myself to blame. If the devs ruin my experience by saveblocking me, well...
The real solution is the way Witcher did it: you don't see the full consequences of your choice until much later.
Most players are idiots and are more than willing to ruin the game for themselves. They can't be trusted to make their own decisions, or control their own fun. If you gave most players a sword that made the whole game trivial and easy most people would still use it then complain that the game is too easy. Developers need to hold the gamers accountable and I would be interested in more developers experimenting with things like that. People have fond memories of challenges and adversity in video games but will still do everything they possibly can to remove it from the game for themselves. How many people just copy op builds from online? Gamers don't know what they want. It's the developer's responsibility to tell us what we want.
