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Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Goronmon@kbin.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

This might be an issue, however:

In a separate slide that’s explained a little more fully, the company adds that the impact of mods on their reputation isn’t just the result of someone stripping Leon Kennedy down to his knickers. Players who install mods only to suffer performance problems such as crashes, freezing or save data corruption can end up turning to Capcom for support, which can then eat up workload and development budget that might otherwise be spent on creating higher-quality games.

[-] ante@lemmy.world 64 points 10 months ago

This sounds like a load of corporate bullshit that they're going to use to justify preventing modding of their games.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Actually, no.

While it’s hard to imagine anyone finding goofy mods swapping cartoon characters or kids’ TV characters for grisly monsters all that scandalous - something that Capcom seems to recognise by acknowledging that “the majority of mods can have a positive impact on the game”

[-] ante@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Why are you intentionally leaving out the rest of that sentence?

it’s apparently nevertheless a concern that some mods might be deemed offensive in a way that requires tighter controls on modding.

They are specifically talking about restricting modding.

[-] MycoBro@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Goddamn. What a shady move. I expect it from the media and shit by for some reason it stings more when a rando does it.

[-] Chariotwheel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Restricting, not preventing like you said.

[-] ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago

Oh yes, because everyone knows. They say one thing it totally won't morph into something new afterwards. Also how do you imagine they will "restrict" the modding? By making the game more tamperproof and harder to mod. So while it may not be "prevented" they will basically make the only mods around texture swaps or some shit.