A Half-Life 2 mod has been coded to block certain YouTubers, who will see the first-person shooter crash, and an error that reads: "STOP talking SH1T about us".
    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 年前

      Except when they do run the show like for Bethesda games. They won’t or can’t fix their own shit.

    • Maetani@jlai.luEnglish
      123·
      1 年前

      I don’t know about the specific situation you are talking about, but this sounds like a perfectly fine request. Needing to spent time debugging your mod at random because an unexpected patch just dropped and players suddenly can’t use it anymore doesn’t sound fun. Especially considering how little extra work it would take the studio to document their fix to the mod community a bit early.

        • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 年前

          Sure, but it’s that wrong to asking for something? The studio can always ignore such request.

          Many games welcome mods, because those can increase interest in the game or provide new ideas.

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          53·
          1 年前

          Demand and petition are opposite, genius.

          Don’t treat customers as if anything short groveling for crumbs is acting above their station. People who adore this product got together on their own time to hash out why, specifically, they feel dissatisfied. They collaboratively presented a single document explaining what could go better and why it’s important. And you’re treating that like it’s some 90s edgelord with an I HATE BG3 page on GeoCities because they didn’t add any of the cool story ideas he e-mailed them.

          What exactly is negative about people saying, ‘We’re excited to sink a shitload of time into adding stuff to this game for free, please do more technical communication?’

        • Maetani@jlai.luEnglish
          22·
          1 年前

          I don’t see what you find cringy or entitled from this open letter, they explain the problems they encounter while working on mods and explain how Larian can help with that. This is the best way to handle such a request as a group.

          And no, they aren’t entitled to their demands, but that doesn’t mean that those demands aren’t admissible. While they do not own the game itself, they do contribute to it’s success and the studio will benefit from helping them.

          Also, it seems like you view modding as just some small tweaks for the fun of it (which might be the case for bg3, but from the letter it doesn’t seem so), but some game mods can become fairly huge, both in work size and popularity. While I don’t know much about the bg3 scene, I remember quite a few minecraft modders who received death threats because they “took too long” to update their mods to the latest version. There’s a real pressure behind that work, you can’t just brush it off because “they don’t own the game”

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          52·
          1 年前

          … Jesus, is that what you think whining looks like? That’s the most polite request for information possible, after a bunch of people got together and discussed it amongst themselves.

        • Sickday@kbin.earth
          42·
          1 年前

          “Larian, we love your work and the passion you put into your games. Some of us have been modding or making tools for your games for years, through multiple games, through thick and through thin. We do this because we care, and we want to see the community improve. All we ask is that if you do “love [us],” then please talk to us."

          Those DAMN BRATS!!! Look at how entitled they are!

  • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 年前

    ahh yes, if you block them from playing, surely they won’t make any content about that and will go on with their day. Brilliant idea. 🙄

      • Stern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 年前

        I mean, its not trolling if the mod has persistent issues that keep not getting addressed and those keep getting pointed out. Like folks pointing out how bad darksydephil is at video games isn’t trolling because he’s legit awful at video games. It can cross the line of course, but just pointing out the dude is trash isn’t doing that.

        Though, to be fair, I don’t know the youtubers in question so maybe they are just huge assholes. vOv

  • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 年前

    Those mod devs are absolute assholes.

    As per the decompiled code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to try playing it…

    BriJee, Amigus, and Obsolete— sincerely, go fuck yourselves.