Steam Workhop is a walled garden I'm excluded from.
No you're not.
You chose not to enter.
No I just bought the game on GOG.
Rightly expecting to get the same services, as buying it anywhere else.
I'm quite willing to raid that garden to get a mod, but I'm excluded from doing so, for no good reason.
No reason Larian should have excluded GOG owners from accessing the Workshop.
If they have no control over that access, then they should never have integrated the workshop at all.
Stop being a Steam shill, the Workshop was designed from the start, to lock mods into Steam, and make it just such a walled gardwn.
That isn't giving users a choice, it's creating exclusive mod content.
That's why the Skyrim community rejected it on mass, and what made the Nexus the huge modding site it is today.
That was a Steam Exclusive, and still is, but it failed to fool the existing TES modding community.
We saw it for what it was the first failed attempt to start paid mods.
Just look at what your download button is called.
"SUBSCRIBE", all subcriptions cost money, and that is a conditioning measure.
If the Skyrim community had flocked to that walled garden, they'd have had no choice, but to accept paid mods as well.
The essential requirement of open modding, is full user access to all game, and user content.
Using Steam Workshop is accepting a restricted form of modding.
One limited in what, type of mods allowed, and where they can go.
That goes against the entire principles of what moddings about.
This applies to games only on Steam, like Skyrim, just as much as ones also sold on GOG. like DOS2.
However it's made even worse when a section of owners is excluded from even accessing the Workshop.
I'll never use the Workshop for any game, but I'm quite willing to get mods hosted only on the Workshop.
As I already do for games like Skyrim.
It's still a Walled Garden, even for Skyrim, but I have way in. and out again.
A quick raid for the mods files, and I GTFO, but I can't even do that for DOS2.
