Hi Valiant, That kind of modding is understandable. Obviously lowering music to make the menus more understandable or raising the volume of a sound to make it a little louder is perfectly fine. You have a problem hearing and modding a game to make it easier to play isn't an issue for me. Its the other kind of modding that bothers me.
For instance, not long ago someone mentioned they were creating a Star Wars mod for the game called Order 66, and asked if I could do something to make a light saber loop. In other words could I modify the game to support his mod. The answer was definitely no, because I'm creating a game on par with Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones, Rogue Angel, or something else in that genre and someone is happily converting my game into something completely different than what I had intended. Not only that he wasn't even aware of the fact the license agreement specifically forbids modding of that kind. The other issue we get into when talking about modding is copyright issues regarding sound effects. I have to pay royalties for the sounds and music I use in my games. So the sounds that ship with a game are provided under legal license for that purpose. However, if someone rips all the sounds from say Tomb Raider and creates a mod and redistributes them he/she could be held liable for redistribution of copyrighted material and/or copyright infringement. While I'd love to just drop the sounds of Lara Croft etc into my games that's not really legal, and anyone who does it is taking a legal risk. So by not allowing people to mod a game I not only protect my product I protect people from taking the risk of modding my games with illegal sounds and music. Cheers! On 8/23/11, Valiant8086 <valiant8...@lavabit.com> wrote: > I have some food for more thought on this discussion. > > That is, with certain games, I have to mod them in order to play them. That > is, with my hearing problems, sometimes I need to silence a crowd or turn up > a beep sound. Sometimes I have to turn down music in a menu where many > developers seem to forget to allow it to be turned down or off. > > I'm not trying to argue against the prevention of modding, just wanted to > throw that out there for people to know about. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
