First of all, supporting yes, officially supporting - depends.

We've got to understand here, that if IC would go and choose the mods they support and ones they don't, they would get flamed, rather then praised: How some of the mods are unworthy when others are? I can see the upcoming wars : that's a NO-NO. Though adding mods on their website for download can be a good thing, I would rather see an implemented mod-downloader on that matter. Also there it goes, most of the Total Conversion Mods [ I think even DoW as it is based on a series of books/novels ] would get fined for basically selling licensed material. Remember that even if You give away the content for free... you still do not have a license to do so.

Also I would care to say that currently every mod is officially supported, and the developers are listening and trying to meet everyones expectations. More to that, if they would choose to go and support some of the mods, and leave the rest, that would be one of a serious mistake they would do. What IC can do, is to recognise good mods, by giving the team a badge [ like a quality badge, http://www.process-in-focus.com/images/mb.GIF ]and perhaps some means to contact the dev-team a bit more easily. That's it. Anything more will break the balance, and lead the modding community into chaos. Support everyone, or none. Other then that, there will be mess!

-raxiv

I think the topic says “To Ironclad”, not “To people who think they work at Ironclad and like to pretend they have some authority on the matter.”

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My art thesis was "naming is deciding", and it's point was that if you put a sticker on something others will tend not to look at the thing itself. The entire point of these mods is to explore the game's potential, and if you decide for others based on your preferences, then you miss the vastness of that potential.

As a developer you would be most interested in finding the limits of the engine, so that you could gut that engine and start over to make something entirely new, and because you can only create based on what you know, it would be best to know as much as possible about what your engine can do.

Of course I imply censorship where none may be intended, but it is simple human nature to imply the opposite of any concept. Buddhists believe that when any concept is created, it's opposite is also created. As children we are taught to associate opposites, but it is already inherent in our way of thinking. So to declare approval is to immediately imply rejection, not as how it is said, but simply how we think.

Common sense is its own authority.

As a general rule, in the past we've not gone beyond hosting them on the mod library and providing forum stickies, etc. We don't generally provide any special accomodation beyond that due to legal concerns (many mods are based on preexisting IP, and rolling mods into an expansion is just as bad or worse from a legal issues standpoint), and it could also upset others in the community if it looks like we're playing favorites. If you just want hosting and such for a mod site, there are generally community sites who are more than willing to provide that since it will give them an extra draw to their own site.