Does the mod scene seem on life-support to you? Thread

Hello everyone,,

I recall the mod scene was very active for a long time, I used to check Moddb every day. I dunno when it happened, but I went weeks or months without checking and barely anything updated, or exciting new mods started or were released.

Most new games don't have Mod support, true. It's a factor.

However, I'm missing play sweepstakes online for money seeing a dozen new HL2 mods go up in development and maybe 1 out of the dozen successfully releasing, and 1 out of several dozen of those that release being something special.

Things just seem Sloooooooow to me. Black Mesa released, and that was like the turning point I think, after that, and it's successful deal, I see more mods turning Indie and selling then making full mods. I mean good for them, but uh, I dunno, I miss the freedom and creativity of the mod scene.

Now that it's so easy to turn a mod into a retail game and sell sell sell, everyones doing it. Which is really good for them as I said above, they need to make a profit off their hard work. Maybe it's just the end of an era, the end of modding for games. It survived two decades very healthy, but it seems it's reaching a turning point, with developers not supporting it(some do, rarely), and alot of Modders going Indie...

What are your thoughts?

Edited by: BerlinKhan

BerlinKhan wrote:

Hello everyone,,

I recall the mod scene was very active for a long time, I used to check Moddb every day. I dunno when it happened, but I went weeks or months without checking and barely anything updated, or exciting new mods started or were released.

Most new games don't have Mod support, true. It's a factor.

However, I'm missing play sweepstakes online for money seeing a dozen new HL2 mods go up in development and maybe 1 out of the dozen successfully releasing, and 1 out of several dozen of those that release being something special.

Things just seem Sloooooooow to me. Black Mesa released, and that was like the turning point I think, after that, and it's successful deal, I see more mods turning Indie and selling then making full mods. I mean good for them, but uh, I dunno, I miss the freedom and creativity of the mod scene.

Now that it's so easy to turn a mod into a retail game and sell sell sell, everyones doing it. Which is really good for them as I said above, they need to make a profit off their hard work. Maybe it's just the end of an era, the end of modding for games. It survived two decades very healthy, but it seems it's reaching a turning point, with developers not supporting it(some do, rarely), and alot of Modders going Indie...

What are your thoughts?

Can't say for sure, but some of us modders still stay active here with our little hole-in-the-wall games from days of old.