Harmy52 Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Hello modder community, I would like to ask you to fill in a little 4 question survey about modding. My friend is studying game design, and his topic at the moment is modding. This includes your motivation for modding and modding versus professional game-design. Filling in this survey would help him tremendously, and I would be much obliged. Without further ado; The survey. Thank you for your time. ~Harmy52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinderionsBones Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) Edit: no reason to have what I wrote here anymore, move along citizen. Edited March 23, 2012 by SinderionsBones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmy52 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) HvA ICT is the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (College of Amsterdam), Information and Communication Technologies. http://www.hva.nl/ The maker of this survey isn't a native speaker, so I would appreciate it if you could look past the spelling and grammar mistakes. If you're wondering, he's Dutch. Edited March 23, 2012 by Harmy52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinderionsBones Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 Well that clears everything up. Especially the apart about someone posting for him. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harmy52 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 Well that clears everything up. Especially the apart about someone posting for him. :D Glad we cleared this :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Brasher Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 1. I would like to see the gaming industry make more games more easily moddable, and mods should be usable on consoles as well as PCs. 2. The game industry could learn a lot by studying what mods are successful and popular on sites like TES Nexus. They could learn about which ways their marketing research gave totally wrong answers and which ways they built the game wrong. For instance, gamers generally hate level scaling, think the vanilla bodies and faces were poorly done and homely, and like to have lots of followers with lots of different armors and clothes to dress them up in. 3. I make mods for fun and because I am bored. I also mod because I am insane and have obsessive compulsive tendencies. When you are bored to tears with the game, modding can still be quite fun and engaging. Watching the download count rise is quite gratifying and can be more fun than playing the game. 4. I would consider accepting a job as a professional modder, but would only do so if I was interested in the material they wanted me to work on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackCompany Posted March 23, 2012 Share Posted March 23, 2012 (edited) All games should be moddable. Period. We buy them and rumor has it we still own them, sort of. So why can we not change them to suit our purposes? There is no reason every game is not moddable. The industry has it wrong. They aren't making the things we want, by and large. We are buying what's there because there isn't anything else. Without a real RPG I will play Skyrim. With a real RPG, I would not give skyrim a second look, big Dragons or no. I make mods, right now, at least, because the vanilla magic system was under-developed, combat was not fun plain and simple and the perks-as-skill-tree system was Bethesda's worst disaster yet in a long line of things-we-could-have-done-better. I would consider accepting a job with a dev if they were a creative team willing to venture off the beaten path in terms of design. Also, I did actually complete the survey as well. Edited March 23, 2012 by BlackCompany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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