Sunsetspawn
Arcane
You must not modify zee goyslop!
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Right to Mod or Cheat Act?
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Nifft Batuff
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The possibility to program/code a computer/device without needing a licence should be inserted among the basic human rights.
SomeGuyWithAnOpinion
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This is indicative of a larger attitude problem I have noticed within the game industry in general, usually by the sort of morons that actually like modern AAA releases. It goes something like this:
"It's the developers game, you should play it the way it was intended"
NO. Developers are stupid. I know better than them how to have fun in a videogame. I don't just mean this from the perspective of me understanding my own sense of fun better than they do, I mean it as a literal criticism too - most modern developers are just too stupid or untalented to actually develop compelling gameplay. Even good games tend to have issues and it's good to be able to fix things. Even if developers weren't idiots, if I purchase a game it's MINE, not the developers, so you're goddamn right I should be able to modify it how I want, even in ways that tangibly make the game worse. It's nobody's business if I want to install a mod to make every weapon do 10 billion damage, even if it ruins the gameplay.
This attitude is at it's absolute worst when console vermin try to defend their toy computers only running games at 30 FPS, but it applies to anti cheating/modding as well.
In general moddability is dead, as a concept, and we permitted it to die by having a stupid attitude.
"It's the developers game, you should play it the way it was intended"
NO. Developers are stupid. I know better than them how to have fun in a videogame. I don't just mean this from the perspective of me understanding my own sense of fun better than they do, I mean it as a literal criticism too - most modern developers are just too stupid or untalented to actually develop compelling gameplay. Even good games tend to have issues and it's good to be able to fix things. Even if developers weren't idiots, if I purchase a game it's MINE, not the developers, so you're goddamn right I should be able to modify it how I want, even in ways that tangibly make the game worse. It's nobody's business if I want to install a mod to make every weapon do 10 billion damage, even if it ruins the gameplay.
This attitude is at it's absolute worst when console vermin try to defend their toy computers only running games at 30 FPS, but it applies to anti cheating/modding as well.
In general moddability is dead, as a concept, and we permitted it to die by having a stupid attitude.
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With the exception of purely multiplayer games, if the game is on my PC I should be able to modify it as I want.
It doesn't mean devs have to go out of their way to make a game mod friendly, but devs going out of their way to make a game mod unfriendly is just retarded.
It doesn't mean devs have to go out of their way to make a game mod friendly, but devs going out of their way to make a game mod unfriendly is just retarded.
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