'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing

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• Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i love it when modders get so up their own ass, they make themselves look moronic to everyone.

  i recall the huge cringy “petition” made by BG3 modders demanding to be told what fixes would come in patches made by devs because they were “fed up” with having to fix their mods after patches would break things.

  its quite funny when modders think they run the show.

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  • Maetani@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know about the specific situation you are talking about, but this sounds like a perfectly fine request. Needing to spent time debugging your mod at random because an unexpected patch just dropped and players suddenly can’t use it anymore doesn’t sound fun. Especially considering how little extra work it would take the studio to document their fix to the mod community a bit early.

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      its not the request, its the entitlement that the letter displays.

      they did not create this game. they are not entitled to demand and petition for such things. stuff being updated and breaking mods is annoying, but it happens.

      modders do not own the game they mod for. nor are they entitled to be included in development updates just because they’re annoyed that they need to fix issues that may arise as a result of a game being patched by those who made it.

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except when they do run the show like for Bethesda games. They won’t or can’t fix their own shit.

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn involved community, trying to make all their improvements count! The freeloaders!

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      improvement is one thing. acting like an entitled bunch of brats is another thing entirely.

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ahh yes, if you block them from playing, surely they won’t make any content about that and will go on with their day. Brilliant idea. 🙄

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  • wccrawford@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup. Feeding the trolls. Doomed to failure.

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    • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, its not trolling if the mod has persistent issues that keep not getting addressed and those keep getting pointed out. Like folks pointing out how bad darksydephil is at video games.

      Though, to be fair, I don’t know the youtubers in question so maybe they are just huge assholes. vOv

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• cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  nitpick: they were dubbed as anticitizens by the person decompiling the code, and not by the original code author

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• pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Those mod devs are absolute assholes.

  As per the decompiler code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to continue…

  BriJee, Amigus, and Obsolete— sincerely, go fuck yourselves.

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