Quote: Originally posted by MickDanger
Seeing how Bethesda is doing their best to squeeze the modding community into paid mods, I won't applaud EA until they make a good show of faith to the community. Let's face it, they'll squeeze every dime they they can out of this game. And I wouldn't be at all surprised if they are trying a Bethesda move. Just saying...
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No way to predict the future, but in this round they already released the recomplied code for free, so no such move is occurring in this update round. I think they always have recognized that the fleshing out of the game by modders was vital to their sale numbers. If they lock it down so tight that only paid, essentially freelance, modders could work the game they know the revenue offset would be negative, so it's tough to see that introduced by this studio. Other EA franchises, well, who knows. It will depend on them seeing how the model works for other companies trying it out.