| Zkuq said: I hope more modders pull their mods from Nexus Mods. Sucks for us gamers, but I fully support modders' rights to their mods, which Nexus Mods doesn't. |
I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to modders.
Sure they do great things for our games and that deserves credit, but what I don't entirely agree with is the whole "ownership" aspect of modding, mainly because without the game, you don't have the mod, the mod cannot exist without said game, meaning the mod relies on that game, and well... the modders don't own the rights to those games and they certainly didn't create those games, which means they only added to a tiny fraction of an already crafted and licensed game.
Like in the artists side of the industry, tracing over someone's work and even adding to it is still frowned upon, yet adding and copying existing ideas from an official studio and adding them onto an existing game is somehow okay to retain some form of ownership (And I know some modders and fans alike, chalk modding in with "art", meaning by their logic that the two industries can be compared).
I feel like games preservation is important, but I also feel the same for mods that greatly improve a game or even fix the issues some games have. If those mods are taken away because some mod author got a bit frumpy, then really you're at the behest of that mod author's emotional outburst, which isn't really all that great when you think about it for the long-term. Like we already saw the numerous times when SE threw a hissy fit when Tomb Raider didn't hit sales targets with their exclusivity deals, but at least they didn't entirely pull said games from the market for emotional reasons.
I just think that emotions should be completely removed from modding anything, meaning you've got to be purely logical, and logic would dictate that you should want the mod to be preserved, not deleted and removed (I know it exists on another site, but time changes everything, nothing remains the same forever, that site will eventually either die or remove the files by the author's will).
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