How well liked are modding among UBI/developers?

[kanolsen]

I just wonder if UBI look upon the modders as a benefit or a nuisance?
I mean, just look what GWX did to SH3, still there are problems which was hardcoded so the modders couldn't fix it, just create workarounds.

Is there any connection/cooperation between the modding community and the developers? If it is, they should help make the game easier to modify.

Hope I made myself relatively clear!

Kanolsen

[karamazovnew]

Ubisoft is a big nuisance to us modders. If they hadn't come around with this SH5 thing, GWX4 wouldn't have been canceled. OMG you don't think that it was, just maybe, INTENTIONAL?!
Just kidding. However I would like to see some feedback from a few Ubi suits here.

[mookiemookie]

One of the things I remember most vividly about the last Subsim meetup was Dan telling Kpt Lehmann and the rest of the GWX boys that even the dev team had no idea how they did some of the things they did. I'd say that's a pretty nice compliment.

I think Ubi realizes that modding extends a title's life considerably. There's not a whole lot of games released in 2005 that still have the following that SH3 has. And I'm sure SH4 will still have a strong following well into the future thanks to the talents of folks like Ducimus and the RFB team.

[Sailor Steve]

^^^^

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

There's not a whole lot of games released in 2005 that still have the following that SH3 has.

exactly ZERO at my house

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

exactly ZERO at my house

I still like to fire up Civ IV here and there. Hard to believe that came out the same year as SH3.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I still like to fire up Civ IV here and there. Hard to believe that came out the same year as SH3.

never played it personally,

I do play Microsoft Flight Simulator X once in a very blue moon... it was an '06 title if i remember correctly.

nothing else on my hard drive is older than SH3.

I hope i can say the same for SH5 in 2013

[Undefined]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I still like to fire up Civ IV here and there. Hard to believe that came out the same year as SH3.

And it's even more harder to belive that how moddable this game is. This game is built up for modding, Sid Meier kicks ass .

[Méo]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

modding extends a title's life considerably.

Well said!

Long life to SHV, to Ubisoft Romania and to the modding community!

[stabiz]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

There's not a whole lot of games released in 2005 that still have the following that SH3 has.

There are some (rFactor), but its thanks to the same thing: modders.

It doesn't matter what UBI thinks, there is no way they could stop modders from modding and to attempt to do so would be akin to commercial suicide. Licenses don't mean much in the real world.

[kptn_kaiserhof]

you said it friend

[Shiplord]

Originally Posted by Uber Gruber

stop modders from modding and to attempt to do so would be akin to commercial suicide.

It can not be the interest of a publisher, that the customers are tied for months or even years only to one game due to mods and not buy any other games from the publisher

[Exakt]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

I think Ubi realizes that modding extends a title's life considerably. There's not a whole lot of games released in 2005 that still have the following that SH3 has. And I'm sure SH4 will still have a strong following well into the future thanks to the talents of folks like Ducimus and the RFB team.

Yes, Ubisoft is almost like Valve, supporting most mods, quite unofficially, but haven't heard of a C&D from Ubisoft, unlike EA or VU.

Here is an example of a game that got its life extended through modding, FreeSpace 2. That game was released in 1999 and there is still a strong modding community behind it and it is still going, even 9 years after release...