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twesterm on 15 March 2010
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mirgro said:
twesterm said:
 

For the most part, it's not illegal. 

As for the communities that are gone, I wasn't even aware Bioshock had a community and as far as I know MW2 never had a modding community.  Modern Warfare might have and I assume it's still there since MW2 doesn't have one.  Same for Mass Effect (which I also wasn't aware had an active community, though I'm not surprised).

UT3 stuff is free because they're making money from the engine itself.

Entities like Ubisoft don't have that revenue so they have to make their money from the games.  I'm absolutely positive they would love to have their own WoW, Steam, or UE3 to feed off of but they don't so they must rely on games.

That is the whole point. There are no communities because publishers don't want communities. They don't allow anything to be modded. If they had been released several years earlier you can bet anything they would have had modding tools and or the whole SDK to work with. In fact UT3 for the PC came with the whole UE3 engine, literally everything, for free. As long as you didn't sell for money you were cool.

Publishers don't support modders anymore because they know modders release more, better, and cheaper software than they ever could. Only the worthwhile companies do it anymore.

Publishers don't have a problem with communities, they have a problem with people pirating their software.  Modding communities just happen to be an innocent bystander of the war against that you have nobody to blame but pirates.