Re:Games Today Shut the Door to Tomorrow’s Devs
by wink on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:21AM
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> Blizzard themself have no modding capabilities for World of Warcraft or Overwatch. League of Legends, Fortnite and PubG have no mod framework whatsoever, despite being originally inspired by a mod.
ugh. I think the key point the author is missing that those are all online-only studio-server games. I can't remember any of those ever being properly moddable.
What Doom, Quake, and WarCraft3 had in common that you a) had a singleplayer mode and b) more importantly could host your own (dedicated or not) server - so you weren't taking part in a persistent MMO world where you'd for example ruin the economy with your "unlimited gold" mod, but you were setting the rules in your game mode.
ugh. I think the key point the author is missing that those are all online-only studio-server games. I can't remember any of those ever being properly moddable.
What Doom, Quake, and WarCraft3 had in common that you a) had a singleplayer mode and b) more importantly could host your own (dedicated or not) server - so you weren't taking part in a persistent MMO world where you'd for example ruin the economy with your "unlimited gold" mod, but you were setting the rules in your game mode.