Usually these things come with a lot of wind up, and I say this as a consumer.
Even without the context of this mod drama, I did a double take when I heard about the new stuff because its release date was so soon from the announcement
To play devil’s advocate, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t. You can’t make an omlette without breaking eggs, and changing the game so much doesn’t seem like something that wouldn’t do anything to mods. Then - who should they inform? There is no “king of mods”, there is a ton of people making shit. What should they do? Open source to people who aren’t in the company? Give them the patch early? If they promised well in advance, that the patch was comming, priorities could have changed from “patch a years old game to new consoles” to “put out fires in the newest installments”. And people would be mad about that too, or expecting the patch to drop any second, when it was half a year away. Also, what good would saying “ayo, we’re making a patch that’ll break your shit completely” do? Having that info doesn’t change what happens to the mods, and nobody will stop a game update going forward with the arguments of “it’ll break mods”
IMO that was super sudden.
Usually these things come with a lot of wind up, and I say this as a consumer.
Even without the context of this mod drama, I did a double take when I heard about the new stuff because its release date was so soon from the announcement
To play devil’s advocate, it’s damned if you do, damned if you don’t. You can’t make an omlette without breaking eggs, and changing the game so much doesn’t seem like something that wouldn’t do anything to mods. Then - who should they inform? There is no “king of mods”, there is a ton of people making shit. What should they do? Open source to people who aren’t in the company? Give them the patch early? If they promised well in advance, that the patch was comming, priorities could have changed from “patch a years old game to new consoles” to “put out fires in the newest installments”. And people would be mad about that too, or expecting the patch to drop any second, when it was half a year away. Also, what good would saying “ayo, we’re making a patch that’ll break your shit completely” do? Having that info doesn’t change what happens to the mods, and nobody will stop a game update going forward with the arguments of “it’ll break mods”
How about just not “updating” a finished game?