As long as there is ease of use with the kit, and it's not locked behind hardcore coding exclusively, then I can see this being a wild success, and perfect for revitalising that game!

The success of Bethesda's toolsets can be attributed to both being able to mod the in-game environment, such as with battle, clothes, the current world, etc; and its ease of use instead of a hardcore coder barrier to entry, that is why the redkit as well as other toolsets that only affected components that required scripting exclusively was not as successful as Bethesda's...

Sure, hardcore coders are able to get out a hardcore-only mod every year or two, but the nexus is absolutely thick with CURRENT Bethesda mods that are still being made for all gamers, not just for the elites, to this very day, rather than just the rare mod every few years strictly for the elite crowd as they are a niche by definition...

**And most of them being imbalanced hardcore difficulty mods.

NOTE: **True balance is not laughably easy, nor cripplingly difficult, that is what I mean by imbalanced hardcore difficulty mods.

EDIT: TL;DR; Bethesda's tool kits were/are a success due to their open accessibility, not specialised exclusivity.

You do realise this is going to be free, right?

No, you don't say? Well, duh! Point still stands that they can shove it up their asses.

Will be fun to play with, but damn is this late to the party. You're releasing a mod kit for a 9 year old game. At a certain point, the modding community mostly moved on. The time to release this was 7-8 years ago.

This exact same tool should been released way back in 2015 right when the game initially launched.

Right, ok. Good talk.

Hard to argue with that. Shortly after Blood and Wine would have made the most sense. At the latest it would have been when the first season of the Netflix Witcher show caused a major spike in interest in the game too.

CDPR lost my trust and respect when they retroactively added DRM to the Witcher 3.

I want nothing more to do with them or their products.

but with the editor you can add that t-shirt, or whatever it is you need so much, to the game yourself! PogChamp

Meow?

It is the mechanism not the content that defines DRM.

Are you suggesting that this mod kit removes the DRM mechanism from the game?

I would argue that proper balancing, particularly of a game like TES: Skyrim, is incredibly difficult. If you take a look at any Bethesda game, and many other games that are out there (assuming it's in a genre where it makes sense to talk about it, so not something like a VN), have significant balance issues.

(Note: I'm talking about the difficulty of balancing the game, not the difficulty of playing through the results of such balancing.)

II really don't understand some of the comments lol. Maybe I'm the odd one heh. I personally appreciate the fact they are going to release this mod kit for free. As long it can be used offline and no wierd catches, that's all I care about.

I think this is a good thing for people that may want to learn how to create more complex mods using this tool. I mod a little bit here and there, but I'm still a newbie compared to the real modders, so this seems like a good opportunity to me.
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the mod kit gives you the t-shirt you want so much, and even more t-shirts for that matter

Daggerfall in the Witcher 3 engine. Y/N?
"I modded the Witcher 3, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt"?

Then why are you here? They take 30% of everything on GOG.