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gomola

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I am a huge fan of Skyrim and Oblivion, In fact I would say, due to mod support, Skyrim is my favourite game of all time.
Now I'm fairly sure other people feel the same way and Skyrim is a very successful game. So why is it that there are so few games that support mods and none close to the level of mod support as Skyrim?
Surely Skyrim and Oblivion before it have shown that it help sell games.
I'm really looking forward to games such as the witcher 3 but feel really disappointed there will be little mod support for it.
So why are developers so against mod support?
 
Developers aren't, publishers are. You can't sell your annual releases if the game can feel fresh with just a few mods.
 
gomola said:
I understand what your saying but surely that only applies the likes of Ubi and EA not the likes of CD Projekt RED etc.
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What do you mean? Witcher has REDKit which is just for modding which CD P release. Plenty of mods and quests for the Witcher games. Pretty sure REDKit is planned for W3 as well.
 
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Woden said:
Developers aren't, publishers are. You can't sell your annual releases if the game can feel fresh with just a few mods.
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thats the reason.

DLC is big business why give it away for free when you can sell it.

thing is some mods can make a game sell better than on its own merits but no one wants to risk it anymore.
 
Witcher1979 said:
What do you mean? Witcher has REDKit which is just for modding which CD P release. Plenty of mods and quests for the Witcher games. Pretty sure REDKit is planned for W3 as well.
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Not really heard much about REDKit. I know there are a few mods for the witcher games but nothing really compared to the elder scrolls games.
Why is that?
 
The tools are available for the Witcher games, the devs encourage people to mod for it seeing as they released tools to do it. I guess if you wanted to state actual reasons for the Witcher games:

1) Skyrim is such a boring game and needs a ton of mods to make anyone want to actually play it. People spend more time modding it to look better then actually playing. Witcher you spend all your time playing.
2) Witcher games might be harder to mod for, although the games are so damn good they really don't need any mods apart from extra quests which both games have. The mods that are available are really all it needs to be honest.
 
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If the DLC were worth while and not just new weapon skins or whatever, it wouldn't be an issue. The fact is, who's going to pay money for a DLC like that when a mod can do it for free.

The more important issue, though, is time. Developer kits, generally, need to be coded from scratch for that game. They require a team, testing phases and so on. It's time consuming and a lot of developers just aren't able to do it.
 
benjii said:
If the DLC were worth while and not just new weapon skins or whatever, it wouldn't be an issue. The fact is, who's going to pay money for a DLC like that when a mod can do it for free.

The more important issue, though, is time. Developer kits, generally, need to be coded from scratch for that game. They require a team, testing phases and so on. It's time consuming and a lot of developers just aren't able to do it.
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I like games where they develop a developer kit which then they use to build the game, meaning they have a solid kit for players to use afterwards and works perfectly with the game.
 
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