Blogs - OnyeNacho

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 no 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. 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.

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.

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.

You do not have to rely on Nexus Mods anymore. Just let the damn thing starve into obscurity. Even with Kralich dethroned from site editor, I doubt this site could ever become great again (it is FAR from it), but at least it is tenable again.

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Starfield is still new and already we have a crook trying to financially exploit the modding world with his 'mod'.