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Mon, 29 Mar 2004 07:09:05 +0000

To me, what is the most important feature of pc games is the mods. I bought q2, finished it in a row and never stopped playing ActionQ2. ut2004 is different in that matter as it seem a collection of well done mods already.
Yet, there are more and more times between mod releases, you see less small projects starting out of nowhere (remember all those hl mods? well some of them gave brand new ideas, gameplay wise). And many mods have problematic releases (i think of urban terror there, where every release saw me reinstalling the previous version). Releasing a mod seem less and less an easy and fun job.
Also, some editors seem to want to milk that cow (valve’s steam). Which could start a bad habit if successful.
And of course, the fact that everyone and his grand mother seem to want to develop for console first (infamous deus ex 2).
All this would lead to 3 letters: DRM on locked technology.

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