Originally Posted by dsvw56

Originally Posted by henryv
RPGMaker is a tool to create worlds and is sold at steam. Divinity Engine editor is a tool to create worlds/mods which comes in a package with Divinity Original Sin.

To the Moon is a game released separately from RPGMaker. The owner enjoys free writing and transformed it into profit. I don't see anything wrong with that.

There are others who are motivated to work for money. There are others who are motivated to work because its their hobby. To each his own.

I don't know why there is such hate at people who are motivated to do something because of monetary needs.


The reason so many people are against monetizing mods is because it goes against everything the mod community is about. And if you can't see the difference between something like RPG Maker and a modding toolkit, I'm not sure what to say.


I just disagree with the "official support" the op wanted regarding created mods. Larian and the modders should be a separate entity.

I also ask you, what is a mod community about? As I've mentioned before, there are people who are driven to work because of money or hobby. They can also be both. From the description of a mod, it is the alteration of the program code of a video game in order to make it operate in a manner different from its original version.

There are games that started from modding that tried to sell itself such as fall from heaven (Civilization IV), Magna Mundi (Europa Universalis 3), and DOTA (Warcraft III). We all know what happened with Magna Mundi as it got the axe from the publishing company, Paradox Interactive. DOTA got inevitably famous and now has a million of dollars to be given away for international tournaments. Spin offs from DOTA was also created such as Heroes of Newerth, League of Legends, and the upcoming Heroes of the Storm.

I think swen mentioned about having to use the toolkit to be able to produce a game that the game creators could sell.

Now, Let's talk about risk from a modder's point of view when creating games for money. It's unfavorable against them since you said there are a lot of people that are against in monetizing mods. MOdders that do monetize also has a normal game developer's risk such as logistics, how to sell their game, and whatnot. Everything is on the negative if you look at it so why won't it defer to create their games to get some money?

EDIT: and, another point of view, how many times did you see a mod die? What is the reason of the modders most of the time? So far, I've seen Reality is in the way or probably monetary needs. There are others that die because modder's interest just diminished.

Last edited by henryv; 20/07/14 03:51 AM.
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