Posted September 22, 2015
Does anyone know of the attitude of various games companies towards modding of their games? i.e. unfriendly vs neutral vs friendly?
The few I know about are:
Bethesda/ZeniMax/ID software (quite friendly in that they release mod tools for games like Oblivion, Fallout and Skyrim. Wish they had released all the official art tools for those games though)
Take 2/2K/Rockstar (generally mod-unfriendly as far as I am aware, I think the whole "hot coffee" thing for GTA made them nervous)
Activision Blizzard (with the exception of the StarCraft 2 tools and maybe some things for Call of Duty on PC, they seem to be not particularly mod friendly)
EA (some parts of EA like EA Sports seem to be mod-unfriendly, other parts used to be vaguely mod-friendly but are now at best neutral)
Valve (very mod friendly, probably one of the most mod friendly companies out there, releases basically full tools for their games)
Epic (they basically give away their entire engine for free and you only have to give them money if you want to make money yourself plus a lot of their games have had full mod support in the past and the new Unreal Tournament game will also have full mod support)
Anyone else got anything to add to this in terms of how friendly different companies are?
The few I know about are:
Bethesda/ZeniMax/ID software (quite friendly in that they release mod tools for games like Oblivion, Fallout and Skyrim. Wish they had released all the official art tools for those games though)
Take 2/2K/Rockstar (generally mod-unfriendly as far as I am aware, I think the whole "hot coffee" thing for GTA made them nervous)
Activision Blizzard (with the exception of the StarCraft 2 tools and maybe some things for Call of Duty on PC, they seem to be not particularly mod friendly)
EA (some parts of EA like EA Sports seem to be mod-unfriendly, other parts used to be vaguely mod-friendly but are now at best neutral)
Valve (very mod friendly, probably one of the most mod friendly companies out there, releases basically full tools for their games)
Epic (they basically give away their entire engine for free and you only have to give them money if you want to make money yourself plus a lot of their games have had full mod support in the past and the new Unreal Tournament game will also have full mod support)
Anyone else got anything to add to this in terms of how friendly different companies are?