Why won't GGG allow modding?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"The worst that could happen" depends on your idea as to what the game is. The worst that could happen is that the game is flooded with hacked items and everyone goes off to play another game leaving GGG without a source of income. That would be likely if they allowed people access to "modding".

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Russell wrote:

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xXx_EliteHardcorePro_xXx wrote:

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Russell wrote:

Are you talking about UI mods or game changing mods?

Both, but mainly game changing ones like Median Xl and zyel for diablo2

How would modding work for only online? >.>

Have a modding program like warcraft 3 had, allow for custom games server like wc3.
But probably won't happen since it takes a shitton of time and money to do all of this.

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"The worst that could happen" depends on your idea as to what the game is. The worst that could happen is that the game is flooded with hacked items and everyone goes off to play another game leaving GGG without a source of income. That would be likely if they allowed people access to "modding".

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what is this...

I dont even...

Wot

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PleiadesBlackstar wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

"The worst that could happen" depends on your idea as to what the game is. The worst that could happen is that the game is flooded with hacked items and everyone goes off to play another game leaving GGG without a source of income. That would be likely if they allowed people access to "modding".

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I don't hide my profile... I often describe exactly how I play this game.

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When are we going to get private leagues?

Custom Maps
Neverwinter has the Forge, where you can create a Map, then submit it to the dev team, and then if approved it is made available for everyone (including you) to play it.

I think it wouldn't be such a bad idea, as long as GGG isn't spammed with maps by every single player.

Perhaps that feature would only be available to accounts that finished the game on all difficulties, either with all classes or in a hardcore league.

UI Mods
UI "skins" would be acceptable.
The few trolls who complain about naked orb statues would be delighted.

The game information provided by GGG should be extremely restricted, though.

Game-changing Mods
Take that idea, wrap it in paper and flush it down the toilet of your mind.

Back Before there was even alpha invites GGG alluded to allowing players to host their own custom rulesets on either 3rd party servers or their own servers, there wasn't any clarification beyond that.

Personally I don't see any reason to mod this game, we have numerous other games with great modding capabilities coming out such as Grim Dawn, and we already have Torchlight 2 (no disrespect but the modding community needs to push the limits of their tools!). There's also the issue that all things security and netcode related aren't completely fullproof yet, which means reverse engineering and easily producable hacks for what the client does calculate.

Private leagues will fix this, just give it time.