Today in as the Firepro World burns~
Given the delay the mod suite for the PC version (which is used by many) may not be functional until the end of December after the game has its big DLC update as the single guy behind it goes back to college and won’t have the free time to work on it until then.
This has resulted in a number of people deciding that they’d rather not update the game and keep it offline until the suite can be updated. You cannot download or share created wrestlers (which the game is basically built around) while offline, which is a further complication and may lead to a split of the userbase.
The creator of the mod suite has said that he finds this to be an intolerable situation and with a few hours work can make it so that created wrestlers can be shared offline. He has not done this before because this is a niche game that needs every sale it can get, and doing this basically would break the final bit of copy protection it has (you can pirate the game easily, but you cannot connect to the steam servers which are the only way to download created wrestlers which is most of the point).
The mod community and the developers have… had a decent enough relationship/detente, with the mod guy being in touch and respecting their wishes as to what the absolutely do not want done/exposed to modding, and in return they mostly leave the modders alone. This would potentially change that greatly, with the mod fellow going “they can’t even fix their own code, I doubt they can block mine”.
He is, however, trying to add a piracy check to the tool to prevent it from working with pirated copies which would make things less apocalyptic.
I don’t think things are gonna work out.
Oh yeah much of the existing community migrated to a new forum just over a month ago as when the previous forum went down for a bit people went digging and found out that the admin of said prior forum was arrested on child porn charges. Too many communities I’ve been a part of have had to migrate due to child pornography related mishaps >_>
So yes, things have been interesting.