If GGG allowed modding

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MenderSwiftpaw wrote:

OK, I guess I have to explain this....

So putting a game on steam costs the developer 30% of all DLC. That is not a good business move.

Allowing Mods requires a separate game environment/league/sandbox. You can't have mods that use the persistent characters of the official GGG leagues. Why!?!? Because You could make a mod that has a zombie dropping 20 Kaom's per death. But what if GGG makes you use the loot tables normally?!?!? Well, you could make a map that consists of one room with 2^32 zombies stacked on top of each other (please note this is an exaggeration) and one hit them for instant level 100 and mega loot explosion with an AOE hit. No matter how you package the tool for making Mods, there will be an optimal placement that players will exploit. And it will tank the economy to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Mods would either require GGG to maintain another environment/league/sandbox, or they could give out no gear/xp/drops of any kind so that the mods could not be used to negatively impact the official GGG leagues.

Running additional environments is difficult because it costs more money for servers/data centers and all of that jazz.

Creating and maintaining a mod tool would take a lot of valuable engineering time, and detract from development on other areas of the game, such as new leagues, new game features, and additional act content.

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Danoga wrote:

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MenderSwiftpaw wrote:

In terms of visual modifications, it should hypothetically work for everyone that had the mod installed. People without the mod installed would simply see the default visuals.

Anything further than simple visual mods would cause OOS and crashes because the server verifies all of your actions to ensure that no one hacks to gain an advantage in the game.

Where are you people getting this advantage in game thing, maybe if GGG changes up and launches the game on Steam(which has F2P games) launches a mod creater similiar to GUTS from Runic Games. player A and player B get the same mods its fine and stable cause who the fuck wants to spend the time hacking steam(lmao) everythings good to go, But seeing how PoE in a way is a MMOARPG they would have to do something different.

But the fact that poE is a MMOARPG and not being on steam is the only 2 things holding back PoE from being mod allowed.

it being on steam will get more player base for the game, mods through steam would keep players playing the game longer while GGG makes more content.

I see no problems with modding if the game ever goes through steam. And before i get flammed by butthurt kripp fanboys, I do realize i didnt mention steam in my OP