But rather choose a more complicated 3rd party site that chances are isnt gonna work properly on every pc anyways so it just doesnt make sense to me Tldr: cost advantage of not supporting multiple mod distribution platforms Wouldnt the smarter idea be focus on the one that has the most sales then use Mod.io for the other lower selling launchers? We all know its about money, so why are they trying to play fair? Basic data search would show to focus for now on the easiest,biggest, and has built in infrastructure sense the workshop has been active on this game for awhile. Tldr: cost advantage of not supporting multiple mod distribution platforms For any of them to switch back to using steam workshop, Valve wouldn't just need to revert their policy on PC distribution of the mods, but would now need to add in console support as well ~ and that's quite frankly not likely to happen since it would be a big expense for valve with zero return, since they would just be making a duplicate of mod io and giving people more reason to shop somewhere else while still taking advantage of steam features. Mod io is an all in one solution for the developer to support everything, all PC store fronts and consoles at once. Valve decided to not let steam workshop be cross platform anymore, and even back when it was it still didn't support console downloads. (something steam workshop couldn't do even back when you could get mods from it for other PC site releases) The additional advantage (for the developer) is that mod io isn't just cross platform with other PC distribution (epic, gog, etc.) but also allows them to support their console releases with mods. Mod.io enables both PC and consoles players to do this, which is why we made the decision to use it over Workshop. Steam Workshop is awesome, but we wanted to make sure players across all platforms could access modding in Two Point Campus, rather than making it Steam specific. However, by the time they published Two Point Campus, Valve is no longer allowing Steam to to distribute workshop mods outside of Steam, so they've chosen mod io as a cross platform solution.

Back when they released Two Point Hospital, steam still allowed workshop mods to be distributed to anyone and Two Point Hospital had extensive workshop integration. Kalypso (and many publishers) are choosing to only focus on one distribution location for mods that work across all platforms.Īnother example would be Sega (publisher) with Two Point Studios (developer). Tropico 6 is available from multiple places, steam, epic, windows store and so on. In response, any company that has a game across multiple platforms is now more likely to use a different mod release site so that they only need to support one mod site that releases to all of their distribution platforms.įor a game to support steam workshop, they now either need to restrict their playbase to steam only or spend the manpower to support multiple distribution platforms, and that's an easy to avoid expense as a developer. That was changed a couple years ago to only allow steam users to download from the workshop.

The 'problem' is steam used to allow workshop mods to be downloaded by anyone. Originally posted by Plitz:Steam has a perfectly fine working workshop.

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