Witcher 3 Dev Responds to Mod Tools Controversy

It's interesting when people can't look outside the box that is placed upon their head while opposing to more potential options of what one may do with a product. Redkit for The Witcher 3 also would open up a current tool in the game industry for environmental design with it's terrain/landscape editor. Not to mention all the animation capabilities... A decent amount of modders of games in the past have become game developers themselves. Some talented people out there would prefer incorporate their artistry within a good existing game rather than attempt to start from the ground up. There are game engines like Cryengine, Unity, or UDK but they are all suited for modern FPS gameplay.

@Tablet999: I've made it a habit of giving Bethesda's games a fairly short once-through so I know what to expect and can appreciate improvements later. Their games tend to be, well let's just say I find "playing the vanilla version" to be quite apropos. Then I wait quite a well before giving it a real play-through loaded up with mods.

I'm finding The Witcher 3 to be a lot more substantive on the first try but it too feels like a second play-through later with some really great mods would really fill some of the holes in it.

@Tablet999: Why write such a long post comparing Skyrim to the Witcher if you are tired of people comparing Skyrim to the Witcher?

@G4mBi7: How about using your brain yourself? This is a pure SP game. If you want to break your game you should be free to do so. And if you know your shit the game works just fine.

Also modders are more capable than you make them here. It's not like only the original developers could code...

@Smakit: So only one of the most overrated games of all time that had nearly to no story and completely relied upon community creations to keep it going. Same with fallout, snooze fest.

@Smakit: Haha good one

@Smakit: LOL. AWSM comeback

@StOoGiEmEiStEr: You obviously don't have the brains.

@StOoGiEmEiStEr: You see people. This kind of idiots and their comments are why we can't have good thing.

@StOoGiEmEiStEr: Are you a modder? If not then how do know so well how possible it is to do so much modding without a official modkit? Also official modkits gives you much more options and freedom because developers do lock certain stuff because they don't release the proper files to modify certain things within the game.

Look at Dragon Age Inquisition it's modifiable but nowhere as near as modifiable as Origins was because there wasn't a official tool released because developers don't want to them to modify it and have access to everything.

@str81337: My feeling isn't so much that I'm upset by what they're giving us so much as I feel they're losing an opportunity to make a great game so much better. The Witcher 3 has turned out to be much better than I expected (I was afraid they'd gotten in over their heads). But it's not a perfect game and there are plenty of small things that could make a world of difference. Maybe those things are doable with what they're giving us, but if not, it's kind of a shame.

@str81337:Sounds more like some people are disappointed because this isn't what they expected based on what they'd seen CDPR say previously, and some are upset because they feel misled. CDPR probably should've corrected and clarified this whenever the plans changed.

CDPR is alright, but not infallible. When it screws up it deserves to be criticized for it the same as any other company. This is arguably a minor screwup (as CDPR is still releasing some mod tools, limited as they may be, and relatively few were aware of that 1.5 year old statement in that one interview) but it's a PR/communications screwup nonetheless.

CDPR trying to sell you an expansion is not a nice thing. More like standard business practice.

@twisted_outlaw:

You sound like a fanboy to me.

@twisted_outlaw: Yer it's sad , i steer well away from the fanboys in the Console community , rife with ignorance , not even worth my time explaining things to them when they will respond with busted myths and abuse like "STFU kid Consol way betterz cos i said but i have no facts to back it I am right so PC sucks" .

Just leave them to their own undoing i say.

@phili878: You comment just gave my PC virus.

@phili878: Is this supposed to be some sort of argument? "Mods givers you Viruses"......

@wtf_666: hhhhurrrrr duurrrrr , go back to your colouring books moron.

@wtf_666: tell me about it the "no offence but is this all we get" tweet should get punched in the face