Because they’re proud of suckering us into still paying for their game every month with 2005 graphics and the worst character customization of any MMO.
The problem is it’s almost impossible for detection software to distinguish between harmless mods and mods that are used to cheat, so they either have to allow cheats (which would be a TERRIBLE decision) or they have to ban it all.
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Or Blizz could add far more customization options, would be nice.
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I tried a few mods for skyrim. They look terrible usally and function poorly. The idea is cool, but it needs a professional touch. If blizzard ever allows such things they should just make them themselves. I wish they would do it will addons as well. Take out the middle man BS.
Actually, some of the people who only used the mod for character model alteration got their bans reduced to warnings because Blizzard COULD tell to a point. Even then, it would not be good for them to let people continue to use a program that could be used for more nefarious purposes, no matter what its “harmless” uses. Hence them also saying to remove said program, because next time it won’t matter, you WILL be banned.
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This is exactly right. I don’t care if to want your gnome to have boobs the size of watermelons.
They allow addons that don’t monkey around with the game’s files, and that’s more than enough.
You let creepy ERPers and their physics-defying models through the gates, then you invite people with more malicious intentions around to screw with the client.
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They wouldnt of done anything if it was just harmless mods. But you start messing with the game files or using them to exploit (1 I heard was making people with flags larger to be seen and another involved rogues and stealth). Sadly, character model modding isnt allowed. Meanwhile there is almost no difference physically between our characters compared to all other MMORPGs out there
Well with the recent announcement of addons being banned too in 8.3 it wont be much of an argument.
I would not mind if Blizzard created another Warcraft client with dedicated servers that allowed modding which would be quality checked by Blizzard before releasing the add-ons to the public.
It would be interesting to see what mods the community could come up with.
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Add-ons work within the framework provided by Blizzard to allow only certain things to happen. Some times people do get creative and Blizzard changes the framework to break them. Mod are changing the files beyond Blizzard’s ability to control them. They can be (and is) used for exploiting the game.
Maybe because they are control freaks.
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you must not have tried very hard or much. There are many fantastic mods for Skyrim
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It was originally rated T but the ESRB upped it to M for, among other things, mods with very graphic sexual content.
It might not but it could.
https://www.esrb.org/ratings/ratings_guide.aspx
Users Interact - Indicates possible exposure to unfiltered/uncensored user-generated content
I think the idea is that even if the devs didn’t create the content they’re sanctioning it by allowing it in their game.
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GTA allows mods in their game and it’s a disaster, player’s abusing anything and everything to gain an advantage.
Mods aren’t allowed for multiplayer but players do it anyway, if they get banned they buy a new account and the cycle continues. Some modders don’t get caught and are free to ruin the experience for everyone else.
Just imagine how easy it would be to slip in mods that reveal stealthed users if any alterations were allowed. Every Rogue would break their computer.
I did not realize that that happened. It might explain why Bestheda is trying to push the creation club on everyone and will probably end up removing free mods - in order to control the types of mods that come out (in addition to standard corporate greed).
i would like to argue if you want to see adult content, depending on the game in question, you have to go pretty far out of your way to find them. Whether it be just ticking a box or going to a NFSW website. I would like to point out that if WoW has modding scene (well i mean WoW does have a modding scene, but it’s not something huge in comparison to The Sims or Elder scrolls or GTA and it’s not happening much on Live servers.), chances are it’s going to be treated the same. The “official” unofficial mod site (or the WoW’s Equivalent of Nexusmods) will have the mods, along with adult content mods that you have to turn on the filter to see, and their would be other websites that offer about much adult content.
Obviously if it’s “Official” official modsite, being viewed by the watchful eyes of Blizzard, their wouldn’t be any adult content, or if the game is M-rated, just like 1%.
I just find it overrall odd that now the ESRB takes into account of the modding scene, even though it kinda (but not really) takes into account of the nature of the internet and how people can be. The “online interactions not rated by the ESRB”.
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To be honest, from what I have seen (er, what others have told me), at least 25% of all popular games have some kind of NSFW mod that someone has created somewhere. So if the the ESRB really takes that stuff into account, then many of these games should be listed as rating “M”.
I still think that this is ridiculous. I mean, companies have limited control as to what players do with their files and games. So they should not have to have responsibility and be penalized by the ESRB over it.
Think of it this way - it is like if you own a store and someone commits a crime on your property - the store owner should not get penalized as a result. Don’t get me wrong - I know here in the USA, that sometimes does end up being the case and the store owner can get sued over it and lose. But it is just a stupid system is what I am saying.
No i didn’t. Just a couple to check it out. Left a bad impression. I was mostly interested in a flying mod. Controls were also awkward, and odd looking graphic issues. Like half the dragon underground, stuff like that.