mods make worried

[Shika_mech]

All the community made mod are great and alot have been made. A good one is graphic enhancement mod. At the same time I feel that mods that improve graphics will make CA less motivated to fix that among other problems that the fan mods fix. I hope CA wont get lazy, even though SEGA and EA probably pushed for an early release knowing it wasn't ready

[BigHairyMelon]

All the community made mod are great and alot have been made. A good one is graphic enhancement mod. At the same time I feel that mods that improve graphics will make CA less motivated to fix that among other problems that the fan mods fix. I hope CA wont get lazy, even though SEGA and EA probably pushed for an early release knowing it wasn't ready

If CA get any lazier people will stop buying their games, I won't be pre ordering the next one and if there is no demo I certainly wont be buying the game until some user feedback has been released screw reviewer feedback most of that is a massive crock of . This is from someone who has pre ordered and played every total war game since Rome 1 ( except Napoleon ).

Mods can only change so much because a lot of stuff is hard coded into the engine, all of this crap about the warscape games being more modable is rubbish IMO yeah sure way more mods have been released but they don't change much. The only one I've seen that makes a warscape total war game into a new one is the great war mod.

If CA keep stripping out features and streamlining the game less and less will be modded, or we will be waiting a long time to see new features because the modders have lives, limited resources and are also working for free. If some mod teams got all the resources CA gets the product that would be produced would blow total war rome 2 away.

[Steedward]

I actually have a feeling that the devs are looking at what these mods do, and using them as a basis for some of their tweaks in the patches. I'm sure the second and third patch notes smelt like elements of Radious mod... but then the mods are just trying to do what should have been done, so I guess there would be overlap with CA even if they're not looking.

Also, Big Hairy - play Napoleon! It's a damn fine game, if you like gunpowder

[SirRobin]

The ability to mod and patch games online is a double-edged sword - it means developers can ship unfinished games. Without these options, it would be make or break when the game shipped.

In a world where mods exist, the cold, hard, rational business strategy is to market your game to the majority of casual players, because the enthusiasts will be able to mod the game to their liking, more or less.

Problem for me being:

1: game files are not always moddable

2: mods tend to bundle a lot of things, some of them good, some of them bad.

3: mods often raise the system requirements, because the new content is either not optimised, and/or because the modders have really powerful computers and make their mods to fit their own hardware. I can play Medieval 2, but I cannot play the Stainless Steel mod for example. I can play Battlefield 2, but not the (absolutely brilliant) Project Reality mod.