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After Elemental

from JoeUser Forums

After Elemental gets released I’m going to kind of take a sabbatical from Stardock and become a modder.  I’ll focus mostly on modding Elemental and when Civ V ships, I’ll mod that as well.  I really would like to see modding of PC games to become more mainstream as they are one of the big advantages they have over consoles.

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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting lbgsloan, reply 25
Modding isn't losing popularity because people are losing interest, people aren't modding because they CAN'T.  DRM and Steam often lock down games to the point where modders can't do much with them these days.  People would LOVE to mod Dawn of War 2 for example, but it's simply too much hassle and their modding forum has little in the way of interesting projects.

Which I don't get.  Mods are what keep games alive and popular years after their release.  The core game of Neverwinter Nights was poor at best, but modders kept the community going for a long time.  Warcraft 3 is the biggest example though.  The custom map DoTA was so popular, more than one company released retail games based on a game mod!
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This is a good point in general, some comercial releases were directed towards a large market because of interest demostrated by modders. Battlefield 2 was pretty much a direct follow on from the Desert Combat mod for 1942.

Games like Global Operations were counter strike clones (this one failed but that was a pretty good game apart from some of the no-hit bugs).

There are quite a few mods for half-life that resembel L4D (svencoop is the primary one).

If there is a good game released today there is a good chance some PC user has already played a less polished, but fun, version of it for free.

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting lbgsloan, reply 25

Mods are what keep games alive and popular years after their release. 
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Very true. Just a couple of examples: Civilization 4., Warcraft III., Total War games.

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Reply #28 from Elemental Forums Top

did you lose a bet?

Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top

So all the work at Stardock will be done by interns
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Stardock has interns?!

Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Tormy-, reply 27

Quoting lbgsloan, reply 25
Mods are what keep games alive and popular years after their release. 
Very true. Just a couple of examples: Civilization 4., Warcraft III., Total War games.
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Hell, I still play a modded Homeworld.

Reply #31 from Stardock Forums Top

Well if anyone deserves a well deserved break  to count their millions it is you Mr. Wardell. Thanks for all the time and effort you devoted to making PC games fun and hassle free for PC gamers . Hope you have picked a good protoge for continuing the quest of keeping PC gaming relevant.

Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top

You don't need any money at all to do whatever you want, unless what you want to do requires money. This is a silly question. First ask what you want to do, and then see if it costs anything. If it does, then that is how much you need before you can do whatever you want.

And besides, some things that you might want to do require something other than money. True love, for instance, requires that you be a good and desirable person. Or, becoming a successful CEO requires hard work, determination, and the development of numerous complicated skills and abilities.

If all you want to do is mod, then you didn't really have to do much at all :p

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

<dupe>

Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top

 

I am looking into my crystal ball...and see...the future.....