[floundericiousWA]

Tater,

Well, how many patches were there for SHIII or SHIV? How soon were they released? A stable configuration WAS reached within months of release, no? (I'm asking there because I didn't find SHIII until at least two years after publication but I promptly bought it when I did!!!)

I don't think patching will make modding "improbable" if only because updates will simply go out to fix compatibility problems and instabilities. In the time it takes to sniff out most of those problems and get fixes deployed, the mod community will be working on its wish list. When we get to a stable config, the modders can start churning out their stuff. That's not a rapid process. Also, we won't know until March what Dan meant by "modder friendly."

The bigger questions, in my mind, will be whether UBI uses this to distribute add-on content and how that will play with user mod content down the line.