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this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2023
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I have said many times in the past that the robust modding communities that exist for many games like Skyrim, Supreme Commander (which has its own community built matchmaking client and launcher), the old school Half-Life modding community etc. etc. are very good examples to counter both capitalism as human nature, and that capitalism drives innovation.
It is therefore no surprise that the people that do that work would have a leftist bent.
The Unofficial Patches for Bethesda games prove this most effectively I think. Here we have a group of people working without profit motive to fix a game a corporation put out broken and never managed to fix themselves.
The modding and cracking scene is an incredibly important part of gaming history. To the point that companies are selling cracked copies of their own games on Steam because they can't get the drm out of the original binaries.
:michael-laugh: that's amazing, hadn't heard about this. deserves a top-level post
https://www.techspot.com/news/100073-rockstar-sold-pirated-copies-games-steam-triggering-anti.html