Witcher 3 Dev Responds to Mod Tools Controversy

The money developers can make spending time working on console related stuff far exceeds what they gain by doing something nice for PC gamers. Creating mod tools that can be used by the community takes up the time of people that could be working on a new project or a DLC that they can also sell to console people.

Look at fallout 4, they've said they dont know when there modding tools will be available to pc gamers. Thats probably the last thing on there minds. They're focused on dlc's because they're a business and free things dont make you money. Especially free things offered only to the minority in this case, pc gamers.

WOW. this is a huge letdown. For anyone that doesn't see how big of a deal this is, you probably don't mod your games. Without redkit I believe we won't be able to make new maps, among other things. It is really a shame that they promised Redkit for W3 and now aren't going to deliver. I guess Fallout 4 will be the mod king. Such a shame we will have to fight the mass of bugs...

I don't know how upset I should be about this, but it doesn't sound good. Games without mod tools have done some rather awesome things, but it's always better to have solid official support.

I really don't see the big deal. Witcher 2 used redkit and that game barely had any mods of note made with it.

Skyrim & Fallout modding > than any witcher game

I am really, really getting tired of the lies and mind games in the gaming industry.

CDPR is planning to license out REDengine, but no licensing info has been revealed. For all we know they may go Epic's route and allow complete free non-commercial use of the engine and allow you to use TW3 assets. So if that's the case, technically he isn't lying about no REDkit, instead we get REDengine. Although, I'm just being optimistic.

It's about time some of the luster was taken off of the hacks at CDPR. The Witcher 3 is two steps back for the open world genre and one of the most overrated and overhyped games I have ever played. People fell for the, let's cut a few things from the game and release 1 a week and call it "free DLC" fraud, even the the real DLC is coming and is most definitely paid. Then there were the cheap shots they took at Bethesda for buggy releases and in August I'm still getting patches, the patches are causing new issues, and not all of the original bugs have been addressed. Now they release a weak mod tools set against what they said they were going to do months ago. Anyone want to take bets on how long before they become EA Poland? They sure have the basics down.

They were too busy pretending they are giving their customers "free stuff" and caressing their PR to do things that actually matter.

Didn't Cam and Seb leave to do their own show about Witcher 3 mods?

They must be shaking their heads right about now.

Why am i not surprised this is the case? Ever since Witcher 3 was revealed, CDPR has been different, and not the good kind of different. All this does is making me reconsider buying their games at full price.

They're just like EA now. Not offering true mod tool because they're scared of less people buying their two expansions

@drivehardly: Looks like someone hit their head against the wall today.

"It's a toolsuite that allows players to modify the game in a number of crazy ways"

It lets you change textures and edit values on items, two things that could already be done without the Mod Tools.