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Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown

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Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown

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Swen Vincke says fan mods 'shouldn't be treated like commercial ventures that infringe on your property' just hours before Wizards of the Coast retracts its BG3 Stardew mod takedown

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The thing that annoys me about game companies that are against mods is, it will boost your sales, people need your game to run the mods... I've started playing games I normally wouldn't go out of my way to, just because I could mod it, let me fix your game to fit my play style, I know a dragon skinned like Macho Man Randy Savage isn't true to the story, but it is to my story.
- In fact, I'd wager that they accomplish the opposite of what they claim. How many people see their reaction to mods, and decide "nah I'm not buying anything from them"
  I know I do that. I'm sure others do too. So now rather than buying the game to mod, I'm avoiding anything from the company for quite some time.
- They also profit from game design that started from mods so it's ok to take for them
- The thing that annoys me about game modders is that they never seem to learn the lesson that they should just build on top of a FOSS game instead.
  
  Why should it matter? No, seriously, why should we give up that right? If they want to disable online features like multiplayer or leaderboards then so be it - that’s understandable. Mods drive sales and interest in the very games they’re trying to sell.
  And people do mod FOSS games, wdym

This bloke makes me want to buy BG3 a third time

I feel like mods should be protected like 'right to repair'. I know that seems a bit extreme but seriously, these people devote their time to create insane content, more often than not for free. I played Oblivion for hundreds of hours just because there were sooooo many mods for it. ARK is another example.
- There's a way to do that: it's called "build your mod on top of a FOSS game instead of proprietary shit."
  
  But the problem isn't that the mod is based on BG3. It's a mod for Stardew Valley. It just uses characters from BG3.
  Making the mod for a FOSS game instead wouldn't change anything. The only solution would be making a Tux-mod for Stardew Valley instead. And who tf wants to play that?
  
  Can you give me an example of an actual modern and good FOSS game?

What's BG3?
- Baldur's Gate 3
  
  Thank you

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