Fallout 4 console mod piracy threatens to destroy modding community

[Ganoncrotch]

shikamaru317 said:

Ganoncrotch said:

Some very odd linking going on, also what others said, this is a strange "issue" or so to be having, it's piracy of a mod of a game, and it's barely that since it appears that the mods have been left credited to their original creator even.

The main issue isn't the piracy itself from what I'm hearing, but rather the fact that the pirates are posting mods on XB1 that weren't optimized for XB1. Because they're straight copies of PC mods without optimization, they run poorly on the rather weak XB1, so the people downloading them on XB1 are then blaming the original creator for not optimizing them for XB1 yet, even though it wasn't the original creator who posted them on the XB1 mod database. Some of these mods have proper optimized XB1 versions in development, others don't becasue the mod creator isn't interested in releasing them on consoles.

So the only real issue is that people on the internet who downloaded something... are complaining about it, I don't see the issue. Ignore them, problem solved, it if was people who were never going to make use of the mods on the platform that the person was creating them for originally or ever (the PC) then what difference does it make to the modder if someone has a cry that the mod they created for the PC isn't working on the X1 correctly, if this was such a big issue then it could be solved by knowledge of the issue at hand, nothing more needs to happen really.