As a modder making a fanpatch for a game...
You can't imagine the amount of times I heard "Why did you remove [exploit], the developers DEFINITELY intended that exploit to be there" (yes, that's a real argument... you may weep now).
Worse, even if you post the actual code of the encounter in your face, with most times even a game developers note attached saying there's a check there to prevent the behavior from happening (which is broken though, hence the exploit) people will still say that.
And there have been plenty of people DEMANDING of me to re-insert some of those exploits.
Fortunately, I have the power to laugh in their face and say "no"...
This thread raised many suppressed bad memories of stupid users... How real developers cope, I don't know.
I never argued whether they intended or didn't intend anything...I said there's nothing wrong with the skill books re-spawning every level-up. This is practically useless until the second playthrough anyway and given statistically most people never finish a single playthrough, let alone get to start a second one I don't see why they'd have a problem with everyone playing however the hell they please. It's actually counter-intuitive to prevent it. And I completely miss the point of your argument of your experiences and choices as a modder? Or what, you think you affect anything? It's not something that's hard to change and there are countless modders out there. Seriously if you actually think for one second that anything you think actually matters I've got bad news.
