![]() ![]() It's pure convenience and, honestly, auto-update rarely goes wrong in my experience. I'll be the first to say it, I've been spoiled by the workshop. Its way less bother than steam randomly deciding to break my game. Personally it doesnt take me that long to rattle through the release forum and pick out what I like and update what I have. But if a modder wants people to use or continue using their mods (that's why you guys make them, right?), it might be wise to respect the end user's needs as well. I know, and this rant was as much about the Steam Workshop as it was the mods being removed without warning and the plain awful mod mismatch screen within the game (honestly, that popup is 90% of why I went full nerd rage here). Let's be honest here, this is Not My Problemâ„¢. Well the only reasons are basically due to the effort required, Steam makes finding mods easier, the forums are not the place for it, however the other main reason would normally be the auto updating thing but we know how that goes.so yeah if we had a better "mod portal" than the forums I doubt steam would even be used (apart from by those that just HAVE to have it in steam). So why should I upload it to Steam Workshop when even Steam users can download and install my mod using the method available for everyone? Steam Workshop is for Steam users so you'd have to upload your mod somewhere else too, if you want to share it with everyone. ![]() Besides, RimWorld is not Steam-exclusive. Let's also not forget the Skyrim paid mods fiasco. The way Steam Workshop handles mods is questionable at best, and outright ridiculous at worst. There's no notification on Steam's end to let your users know that the mod was removed, no message to point to your new replacement mod, nothing. The problem is as soon as you remove the mod, it's also automatically removed from the library of everyone who happened to use your mod as soon as they open Steam. Quote from: Granitecosmos on March 28, 2017, 06:42:49 AM It costs you nothing, and saves your users a lot of frustration and headache! So if you want to abandon or remove your mod for whatever reason, please, just leave it on the workshop. Maybe that's something someone could enhance through a mod. I personally have 100+ active mods in my game right now so maybe it's more of a problem for me than people who only use a handful of mods, but let me tell you - it's fucking obnoxious to try to compare the two walls of text that awful popup presents me with. The only indication that anything has changed is Rimworld's atrocious Mod Mismatch popup when your users try to load the same save they played yesterday. Maybe the mod isn't needed anymore or made obsolete by a similar mod, maybe you don't feel it's appreciated enough, maybe you just don't care about it anymore.
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