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Originally Posted by Zachstar
When one's game is either failing and/or old then encouraging deep mods with a SDK or even the engine source code is one of the old tricks of the gaming industry.
Quake was a engine that went down in history as the most modified project in history. Its source code is still being tweaked and used today. It gave birth to Half life and its mods as well as its own rich modding community.
So DW diddnt sell big bucks... So what? Do you want your biggest public product to meet it's demise simply because you think there are bigger fish elseware?
I do not see what your big problem with custom playable craft are when you no longer support the engine. You no longer have any interest in making pay addons yet you want to deny a potentally great way to add in extra trickle funds?
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I suppose they are making still big bucks off DW ... tho not the freely available version of DW but the Government one which they sold to the DoD (amongst others).
So don't expect a SDK or something similar because they would shoot themselves in the foot by releasing such tools (their "other" customers would rightly think ... why pay huge fees when we can do all modifications ourselves).
So my guess ... DW is a success and still running, just not on the Retail market (i.e. where we can buy it).