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General Discussion / Re: Why no Steam?
« on: June 09, 2023, 04:08:00 PM »
Also, you get ONE shot at Steam and Alex, AFAIK, wants to make sure that he gets said shot right.
But Steam isn't all sunshine and rainbows either. I know Alex has expressed some hesitance in the past about putting SS on there for other reasons besides just the "one shot" nature of it. Some of his comments here: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15344.msg248009#msg248009
IE mods that be quickly and easily swapped in and out without risk of nuking saves, especially with mod auto updates... Imagine losing several or tens of hours of progress because a single mod updated and nuked your save... Not good!
SS would need a massive overhaul for the Workshop to work well and that doesn't even include the Content ownership issues that many modders have brought up about it.
But Steam isn't all sunshine and rainbows either. I know Alex has expressed some hesitance in the past about putting SS on there for other reasons besides just the "one shot" nature of it. Some of his comments here: https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=15344.msg248009#msg248009
Imagine mods get workshopped, also all shipgirls on the illustration page, a man can dream.To quote a famous modder, "The Workshop is only good for hat mods"
IE mods that be quickly and easily swapped in and out without risk of nuking saves, especially with mod auto updates... Imagine losing several or tens of hours of progress because a single mod updated and nuked your save... Not good!
SS would need a massive overhaul for the Workshop to work well and that doesn't even include the Content ownership issues that many modders have brought up about it.