(Blasted Gateway Timeouts)
Meh, those "demands" sound fairly reasonable, especially after Larian's promises of a modding tool months ago and after they've won the "Best Community Support" Award last year
1. "Clarity of expectations regarding official modding support":
Sounds reasonable, given that Larian has presumably been working on it for a while, so they have atleast some idea on whats going to be avaliable.
2. "Support a moderation team with proper guidelines on how to handle situations":
Given what I've heard has been happening in the discord server, this is probably critically necessary.
3. "Mention of issues related to patches/hotfixes":
Probably not super possible.
4. "Maintaining a presence in the discord":
Suprised they don't, given a ton of other Game companies allow their devs to mingle with the players, whether it be related to questions of the game or random stuff.
Otherwise, what, you want them to leave? These people spend their free time and effort (patreon notwithstanding) making things that are used and enjoyed by tons of people. Meanwhile, complete radio silence from Larian (until recently, yes)
Perhaps hiding mods isn't the best way of getting popular support (see Reddit Protest), but if they don't want to continue working on their mods because of the lack of community transparency, that's their perogative.
(It also doesn't help that Larian abandoned DOS2's mod tools years before it's final update)
And to be honest, you should be glad they're trying this, because this is probably the only way to get Larian to actually earn that award and all it involves is the Community Managers interacting more with their community...
Also, even an ex-Senior Community Managers has stated, in his Glassdoor review, that they wanted more collaboration with players, but Larian seemingly doesn't like changing their structure around community involvement.
(Yep, been dealing with gateway timeouts ALL day. Wth is this all about, this is very bad today).
As for the demands, yes. They would be reasonable. IF mod supporting was official already--which it isn't. It would also make sense if Larian hadn't already posted on their twitter that yes, they are working on mod support and will be working more with modders...in time.
Right now, these mod authors are acting like a bunch of toddlers who aren't getting their way. It's ridiculous.
