Modding

[Rufus111]

What is the current stance of the devs on modding?
Is it allowed? Encouraged?
I don't see any mods anywhere (as opposed to coc1) when the potential seems to be there.

 

[valk42]

deeply, deeply frowned upon and discouraged

 

[Rufus111]

deeply, deeply frowned upon and discouraged

Ok
I guess to avoid people messing with the writers ideas and OCs? Or to encourage people helping with the game itself instead?

 

[Savin]

Or to encourage people helping with the game itself instead?

This, and also because we had a LOT of issues stemming from dogshit CoC1 mods -- especially ones adding blacklisted content.

 

[Shrike675]

Straight from a pinned comment on the discord:
Why don't you guys like mods?

In the days of CoC1, modding was plentiful and unmoderated. This wasn't innately harmful, but problems started occurring when the modded versions were the ones uploaded to filesharing sites and the community misunderstood them to be the real versions. This led to situations like very poor work being attributed to the regular writing team, community members demanding features that the developer had never actually implemented into the real version, etc.
In light of having experienced the situation and deciding it sucked, we opted not to support modding for CoC2.

 

[CboyC95]

I could make the argument that mod support can help add to a game's longevity. Look at games like Doom, Half-Life, and Skyrim. Games with huge modding communities as well as fan support long after their original release. Heck, some games originally started as mods before becoming their own thing. Look at Team Fortress, The Stanley Parable, and Counter-Strike for example.