No, it isn’t. If the game needs to be modded by players for it to be good, then it wasn’t good to begin with.
WC:3 was good before DOTA. Doom 1 and 2 were good before whatever mods Gasnick brought up. Skyrim was good before it was modded.
You know what my overall problem with this is? It’s the assumption that offline = mods. Like someone producing a game offline for whatever reason is carte blanche for people to do whatever they want with it. And if the company doesn’t want that, then time to break out them pitchforks.
I perhaps wouldn’t have a problem with sponsored modding. Some process where companies could say yay or nay to it and preserve what everyone says is the good of modding. But until some method to do that arrives, I am perfectly fine with no mods. I don’t believe that the act of launching a game is permission to modify it.
That seems to be how people treat it generally.
Of course you did. There was no other reason to talk about devs being potentially fired if they don’t do what the company wants.
Kind of irrelevant to what he was asking.
Meh, anyone who’d been following WoW could have easily predicted the launch wouldn’t have been perfect. Personally, I had zero problems at D3’s launch. Maybe it had to do with living in California at the time.
Yeah, too short to remember just about every WoW expansion up to that point (and some major patches).
I don’t think they had offered that many discounts at that point. I could be wrong, but I think we’re talking 2015 here… only 3 years after launch, only 1 year after Reaper. Plus, the Reaper package wasn’t discounted on consoles for a time. Certainly not by 50%.