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In a recent Capcom R and D presentation, Capcom has clarified that it Capcom considers mods equal to cheating, and is worried that "mods that violate public order or morals" will cause them PR damage (twitter.com)
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[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 17 points 10 months ago

Some of their points are technically correct, e.g. that mods can increase the support workload if they don't work properly.

Then again, even rudimentary mod support can mitigate that simply by displaying the fact that the game is modded in an appropriate place (like the start menu, log files, or the launcher if present). Then support can ask for that first and tell people to disable or uninstall their mods and call again. Boom, support workload reduced.

This is less possible with competitive multiplayer games but even there you might get away with something like a Stellaris-style checksum system. Simply declaring mods to be bad is just lazy.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

that mods can increase the support workload if they don't work properly.

What grognard goes to the game's official support when a mod doesn't work?

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 6 points 10 months ago

Plenty of people do. Especially since broken mods can cause problems like unexpected crashes that might not be easy to trace back to the mod. If the game automatically sends in crash reports, a popular mod becoming unstable might generate significant work for a while.

A mod-aware game wil usuallyl point out right in the crash log that it's modded and might even enumerate the mods. Makes it real easy to find out that "Jake's Improved Graphics for 2.3 Continued" is the shared culprit.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Why the fuck would you have automatic crash reports? Ive had games "crash" from mr alt-f4ing

[-] Jesus_666@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

For debugging. No amount of internal testing can match a few thousand players in the wild. Usually these crash handlers ask you if they can upload the logs but I've also seen a few games where you can toggle it in the options.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I get having the ability to send a crash report, im more confused about the automatically sending one part.

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