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This account has once more become active, but at a limited capacity. Content posted here only as a backup if no better option is available.

ModDB is still lost to me, but at least the IndieDB segment still has value.

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This is considerably 'late', but I did promise I'd make a video about the current state of modding and the problems I have with it. I released this video last year but was on the fence on whether it was worth the trouble posting it here. Considering the current state of modding overall, I know longer felt hesitant to do so. Unfortunately, too many have complained about the video to INtense and gave the DBolical staff a headache, that they had to PM me about it. Since it already served its purpose at this point, I decided to remove the embedding from this article. If you still want to watch it, you can just do so on my YouTube channel instead. Just look for the video "Modding is an Embarrassment". No, I don't hate modding, I just hate what has happened to it.


Since 2021, I became very vocal of my disappointment of modding overall and what it has become since approximately a year after this decade began. ~3 years later, very little about it has improved. In fact it has worsened. So besides perhaps a few outliers, I am throwing in the towel on modding. Modding is no longer worth the trouble for me.


What about my other mods?


There were plans to work on AMod: Call of Duty 2 this year for the next anniversary of the Army Men series, but after trying my luck with CoD2's mod tools and entering a similar predicament as I did with CoD1 where some of the mod tools are inaccessible now (because dead links), followed by memory allocation errors, I ultimately decided to cancel the project and not waste my time.

This also applies to at least 2 other mod projects I was working on since 2021, including a DLC for a mod I released last year for the fangame Blade of Agony.

I will stick to what I know and do best - indie game development, only this time, solely for my own benefit at minimum. I am tired to trying to make a living, developing games for others and usually wasting time (and sometimes money). Despite how pathetically low the gaming industry has also sunk (for a long time before modding began to suffer a similar fate, and for a variety of reasons I don't wish to discuss here), at least my creative freedom with creating games is still virtually undisputable and with how easily it has become, modding has become or is becoming less necessary for me to bring my visions to life - even the fandom-related.

Despite the fact that I stated that there is still some value remaining on IndieDB (unlike ModDB), I honestly just do not see myself using DBolical's platforms very often anymore regardless. I have been burned out from the previous decade trying to make good use of it for my projects - from lazy site editors who took too long to approve posts before the automatic article publisher update existed (even at the expense of very important deadlines), to just seemingly no luck garnering an audience for my projects anymore - at least not as well as I managed to do with only one previous game I use to work on. I do not see too much value with the site anymore save for perhaps indexing certain critical projects, merely for historical purposes. From hence on, I'd probably just use IndieDB to post critical updates to pre-existing projects or register certain projects if they for whatever reason become popular.


So what now?


As my profile description states, I am only active at a limited capacity now, or rather, if I truly have to. If you wish to contact me, just reach out to me on Discord (if you find me) or Itch, where most of my games and what few mods I post are available and updated.

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SweetRamona
SweetRamona

"My apologies. I thought you were one of the Doomworld raiders. I mistaken your username for someone else on the thread where they harassed Tormentor on the project. Pardon the friendly fire."

Apology accepted! 😸

"But in all honesty, SJW can be misused at times, but using it does not necessarily make one an idiot. When someone is acting a lot like the woke radicals at Doomworld (and elsewhere), that is the vibe they bring and it becomes easy for one to suspect them of being a radical activist (R-SJW, feminazi, or otherwise)."

You have a good point, I honestly try and stay the hell away from Forums and Social Media where these types of unsavory people you mentioned are present.

Again thanks for apology, and sorry for the misunderstanding. <3

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OnyeNacho Creator
OnyeNacho

Welcome. I've been on edge against such individuals since the 2010s. They've be persistent and prevalent, tarnishing any entertainment haven they can reach. When one spends a decade fending against them, they tend to develop PTSD from it, like veterans spending days defending a base during their service in war...

Long story short, the gaming industry is under occupation by these individuals since 2012. Up until now, the modding world seemed to be the only medium untouched by them. Now even that is unsafe it seems...

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Kark-Jocke
Kark-Jocke

Was up man!?

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OnyeNacho Creator
OnyeNacho

Fair thus far, thought the year was rather difficult for me...

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Guest
Guest

Hi! Could you help the Games of Thrones mod for Crusader Kings 2 get authorized?

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OnyeNacho Creator
OnyeNacho

I have no idea about how to achieve that. Wait a while perhaps?

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OnyeNacho Creator
OnyeNacho

I'm a "Wanted" Man.....
...A $5,000,000 bounty placed on my ***...

Man, some of these membership leveling statuses are humorous (in a positive way).

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ripamoramee1
ripamoramee1

"I want toast" is even more funny (positive way).....just wondering what mine is...
And by the way, I have made a page for Starscream-Riki Studios on moddb.com . Visit that for info on joining.
---Charles-Parker---

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ripamoramee1
ripamoramee1

Great...mine is "Rocket Arena"...This, when I hate rockets-only deathmatch. I wonder what it would be if I loved rockets-only deathmatch.

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TheDebonairNomad
TheDebonairNomad

I'm in ur profile, touching it inappropriately.

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OnyeNacho Creator
OnyeNacho

lol...
The same old Adrian Shephard...
...with a dirty mind...

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TheDebonairNomad
TheDebonairNomad

Such is life Good sir.

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