ebreezyman Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) I don't understand why you guys can't just open mods?? Let the players who devote hours of their time and could make good mods for this game do it. It would take all the labor of most of the things people cry about off your shoulders. You could then focus on what you guys are obviously best at, progression in the story and whatnot. Edited February 25, 2012 by ebreezyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkilZodiac Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 It's EA, not Bioware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthDemens Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Or the fact that its a serious undertaking to allow them, possibly even requiring changes to the engine? It's not like its a toggle switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Yes let the players embed every trojan known to man and jeopardize millions of players personal information. The way curse has been doing for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwamper Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Put my vote down for DO NOT WANT EM IN GAME. EVER. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebreezyman Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 It's EA, not Bioware. Well EA then lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebreezyman Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 Put my vote down for DO NOT WANT EM IN GAME. EVER. I agree certain one's shouldn't be allowed such as a dps meter. But if they allowed certain well known modder's to go crazy with say the auction house. Imagine how much easier it would be for them to pursue other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koalachan Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Yes let the players embed every trojan known to man and jeopardize millions of players personal information. The way curse has been doing for years. Used curse for years. Never got a trojan. Got several from wow-matrix though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chessrook Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Oh THOSE kinds of mods! The way you were talking I thought you were suggesting random people be made MODERATORS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Or the fact that its a serious undertaking to allow them, possibly even requiring changes to the engine? It's not like its a toggle switch. Well, of course, but it should have been baked in from the start... not an act of congress to retrofit. The OP is right... players can solve alot of the UI issues that are going on if they had the right tools, and BioWare could focus on the heavy lifting of other stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Yes let the players embed every trojan known to man and jeopardize millions of players personal information. The way curse has been doing for years. You have no clue how anything works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebreezyman Posted February 25, 2012 Author Share Posted February 25, 2012 Oh THOSE kinds of mods! The way you were talking I thought you were suggesting random people be made MODERATORS... LOL oh God no that would be awful lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagan Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 As I have said in the past... I would much rather the designers work to make a game UI that covers what some people want to do than allow any idiot to make mods. In my oppinion Mods are no better than cross server partys... sure it makes the game easier but it damages the comunity. Both are things I would rather not see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deyjarl Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I don't understand why you guys can't just open mods?? It's not as simple as saying, 'oh hey players not you can make mods for the game.' They actually have to have the framework built for players to use to create the mods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 As I have said in the past... I would much rather the designers work to make a game UI that covers what some people want to do than allow any idiot to make mods. The developers can not ever account for all of the ways players will play the game in an MMO. They just can't, and it's a waste of time if they try. The also don't play the game as much as the players do. It's 100% the right thing to do to put the UI in the hands of the players. In my oppinion Mods are no better than cross server partys... sure it makes the game easier but it damages the comunity. Both are things I would rather not see. People that say things like this truly don't understand what mods are and are not capable of doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanisle Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 This would never happen - this is a multimillion dollar corporate global online game. Not some basement freeware. I really don't think you actually have a clue here, sorry. No offense intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 This would never happen - this is a multimillion dollar corporate global online game. Not some basement freeware. I really don't think you actually have a clue here, sorry. No offense intended. Have you heard of World of Warcraft? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanisle Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Have you heard of World of Warcraft? Oh you got me! You got me You got me You got me Wow did you ever get me there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROSS- Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I don't understand why you guys can't just open mods?? Let the players who devote hours of their time and could make good mods for this game do it. It would take all the labor of most of the things people cry about off your shoulders. You could then focus on what you guys are obviously best at, progression in the story and whatnot. While I support the notion of addons, and was a definite healbot addict in WoW, I can understand BW not allowing this right off the bat. The game is brand new and you have to worry about your own bugs and such and probably don't want to be distracted by what addons can do and how they might affect game. I do think however, at some point in the future, BW should allow them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 You have no clue how anything works. ummm yeah http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1531763409 http://www.wowace.com/announcements/warning-trojan-on-wow-ui-worldofwar-net/ http://vnboards.ign.com/wow_ui_customization/b22852/101126096/p1/ I can keep going there is like seven pages just on Google alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JediElf Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 I'd like to see people get creative,and artistic with the UI mods. Enough of the ones that just squish everything down, lets make a Jawa themed UI mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethality Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 (edited) ummm yeah http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1531763409 http://www.wowace.com/announcements/warning-trojan-on-wow-ui-worldofwar-net/ http://vnboards.ign.com/wow_ui_customization/b22852/101126096/p1/ I can keep going there is like seven pages just on Google alone. Add-ons can not carry trojans. CAN NOT. They are not excutables, and that is one of the reasons... of course that's just a problem for the Windows suckers anyway. Edited February 25, 2012 by Lethality Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subrosian Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 NO. NO. NO. The day outside mods come to this game I WILL QUIT. Mods ruined WoW. Every encounter started being built around the idea that you would have a boss meter telling you where to stand and what to do. The auction house was flooded with bots who repost 1 copper lower than you the *second* you put an item up for auction. And that's not even getting into all of the quest helpers that shortcut leveling, the PVP mods that have completely destroyed balance by telling people which target to kill (Healers Must Die) and all of the garbage "ability helpers" that play player's rotations for them. Oh and because this is literally the only rebuttal people ever have, no I'm not some baddie: seriously, mods are THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO AN MMO. - And no, they can never be "optional", as soon as there is a tool that makes some part of the game easier, you are forced to take it. That means that suddenly there isn't a level playing field anymore. The players who can get their hands on a mod that breaks the game (and there will ALWAYS be a mod that does something unintended) get an advantage until it is patched away. Again and again, the people who cheat, exploit and utilize these 3rd party mods are given an advantage, while everyone else is forced to use the mods because they increase player power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jett-Rinn Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Add-ons can not carry trojans. CAN NOT. They are not excutables, and that is one of the reasons... of course that's just a problem for the Windows suckers anyway. Oh god....dude do you really not understand that the executable need not be in the addon itself? Barring that do you know how easy it is to place a network worm in a addon? And those don't discriminate so even you Penguin heads can be affected. Why is it that every kid that downloads a red-hat distro thinks he's Neo or some crap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reaperkeepet Posted February 25, 2012 Share Posted February 25, 2012 Gonna post in this thread to be on the second page... This thread will be a explosion of comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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