Videogame mods are a blursed creation. They’re the door to many a quality-of-life tweak or straight-up repair to get among the shoddier PC ports in form, however they’re additionally the house to all types of weird operating gags (Thomas the Tank Engine in the whole lot) and a sprinkling of fetish achievement (gestures wildly on the many NSFW Skyrim mods).
We’ve seen builders frightened about mods earlier than: each Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi and Final Fantasy 16 director-producer Naoki Yoshida politely requested modders to not run amok with their creations on PC. There was additionally friction a couple of years in the past when Judgement star and big Japanese celeb Takuya Kimura’s company appeared reluctant to see the video games heading to PC, seemingly right down to considerations round how his likeness could possibly be used.
Still, I can not consider any time a developer has straight-up cited crass mods as a cause to not port a sport over in any respect. Until now, that’s.
TeamKill Media—the developer behind Code Violet, touted as a religious successor to Dino Crisis—posted on X to say that it would not be bringing the sport to PC because it did not need any soiled modder fingers tainting its creation. “For these asking us a few PC model of Code Violet… the explanation we aren’t bringing it to PC is we don’t need anybody modding vulgar variations of the principle characters in addition to different characters within the sport,” the submit learn.
“We maintain our voice actresses and actors with excessive regard, in addition to our creative imaginative and prescient for the sport and story and reject any type of destroying that with sexual mods. Making a joke out of our artwork and probably tarnishing the status of our voice actresses and actors is just not value the additional cash we will make.”
Now TeamKill has adopted as much as attempt to defend its stance considerably, including in a follow-up submit: “We usually are not in opposition to PC players or the PC platform. We usually are not in opposition to modders and among the enjoyable mods they make. But we’re 100% in opposition to p*rnographic mods… interval.”
Like, a part of me definitely understands the place the workforce is coming from. It’s good to declare your respect for the individuals working to carry your sport to life and finally builders have a proper to guard that imaginative and prescient. But it additionally feels weirdly short-sighted to proclaim that PC is the only house of degenerates doing degenerate issues to videogames. Blaming a small subsector of modding tradition in your complete cause for not porting a sport over feels a bit unusual to me, and even its half-hearted try and stroll issues again slightly nonetheless feels finger-pointy.
It appears I’m not the one means who feels that means, because it appears TeamKill is essentially getting cooked within the feedback for its stance. Indie developer Ian Fisch replied: “If somebody buys my sport, it is theirs to do what they need with,” whereas content material creator GmanLives wrote “This is a petty sensible markering technique to show individuals off your sport totally.”
Unsurprisingly, there are a handful seeming to agree with TeamKill although, and people replies appear to be the one ones the developer is actively recognising proper now. I’ll have an interest to see if it truly modifications its thoughts down the road. After all, Judgement finally got here out on PC and landed fairly rattling effectively, mods and all.
