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ruuqo replied to your post: Unpopular opinion:  I don’t much care for the…

If developers released a game with well written and scripted content suitable for the game, great visuals, a decent amount of good content and completely bug free, then people like me looking to improve/enhance it via mods, wouldn’t need them.

That’s largely the attitude that makes me dislike the concept of mods in the first place.  It’s saying that what was put out in the original package isn’t worthy of your time, or isn’t fun unless it’s added to by others.  To me that attitude comes off as telling the developers that what they did isn’t good enough and needs more for often arbitrary reasons.  

That does not fly in any other medium.  If you were to put out a piece of art and find that others liked it, but only after they recolored it, added in their own details, and effectively changed the thing that you put yourself in to, how would you feel?

That’s why I consider mods different from fanart/fanfiction.  The latter are made because someone enjoys something enough to expand upon it in something new that does not effect the original.  Mods are made to change the experience of the original for better or worse, and that concept has never sat well with me in any medium.