Witcher 3 Dev Responds to Mod Tools Controversy

@Xristophoros: Only a console peasant, mom's basement dweller would support BLATANT disregard for the customer.

We are entitled to what we are told we will get, dipshit.

@Xristophoros:

I mostly play on console, because I have not gotten around to buying the hardware to make a computer yet, but I still know that being able to mod a game (how it looks as well as how it works) is a very good thing.

It allows one to fix bugs or upgrade the appearance and mechanics of the game should the developer ever stop supporting it, add more content should the developer ever stop making more games in the series, change things that were not so great, and add features that would have been nice to have in the game.

As for wanting free games, The Witcher 3 is not a free game, yet I have not seen anyone ask for it to be.

Please, try to look at it from the consumer's point of view.

However, not from the view of the crying, entitled, bratty consumer that you have probably based on a small amount of extreme responses that you have seen on the internet.

@Xristophoros: OMG that's it, I'm telling my mum on you!

@Xristophoros: Your're a fucking ignorant dumb ass you realise this right.

@Xristophoros: Who says PC gamers want free games? So we're entitled to wanting a more fleshed out modding toolkit to keep the game we paid for going for years to come? A reason for people to keep coming back again and again. Good mods and good tools can drastically extend the lifespan of a game.

Just look at Skyrim. Thousands of people still playing it 4 years after it was first released because of mods. Fallout New vegas 5 years and still going strong...

@metalblinga: agree .. wtf o_o ..

@metalblinga: It could definitely use some texture mods. Leveled list changes, or scaling fixes. The UI could do with an overhaul as even the late changes they made didn't fix its usability much. HUD fixes are already available. If they had better tools available eventually people would be able to create and voice more quests to give you something to do in the end-game.

@metalblinga: So Skyrim doesn't have any nude / sex / prostitution mods? Someone hasn't been on LoversLab receently.

What a crime.

What a horrible road to lead to! Sex is absolutely deplorable and we should stop it or anything related to it right away or we're doomed as a species!

...oh wait...

@metalblinga: he gay

@SingletreeAve: ....You do realizei that they added an entire new movement option to the game with the last patch right? In the options you can switch between the new (more responsive type) or the original one.

@yoshiyoshi: It was only ever an outspoken minority that praised them so highly to begin with.

@yoshiyoshi: im calling them out since they 180 on their no downgrade...

@yoshiyoshi: I'm wagering the vocal minority, most people who played the game played on a console anyway, so modding was never a concern to begin with. Some in the PC gaming community can be a bit fickle.

@yoshiyoshi: Or is it just a case of dishonest game journalism reporting trying to overinflate outcry for clicks?

@Zjarcal: Witcher 2 is not very mod-friendly because it's not an Open World game. Also Redkit didn't allow for, for example, gameplay mods. Full Combat Rebalance is the most that we got and that one only, well... rebalanced it. We couldn't change mechanics or add combos, etc. Also it crashed every 30 minutes. It had a lot of problems.

The Witcher 2 had a lot of incompatibility issues as well, not to mention they barely supported the first RedKit. The modding community was already questioning the support back then.

Umm... Modding Skyrim is not pointless.

@StHapns247: Good lord are you two a pair of cuckolds. Probably millenials. It's not 'dogs turning on their masters', it's responsible consumers turning on devs who went back on previous statements on no notice.

@StHapns247: Haha, so true.