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why it is ok to skin mod non-mmo but not mmo?
Pinkerl
Member Posts: 123
oblivion and such have plenty of fan made mods but why mmo is not ok to do it?
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because you arent playing on your own, nor on a server with every one with those mods. ie make player models 50x size. that pvp mmo is now very easy. make em bright pink while your at it. now they cant hide in grass AND they are massive. sound of enemies running a bit quiet? make it louder! now you have giant pink, horrendously loud players who you can see/hear from a mile away.
thats it, in essence
Playing polished, lag free, feature complete games is carebear. Whining about a game you hate but still play is hardcore man!
just two reasons out of my head and I am pretty sure there are much more:
* quality issues
* illegal content (svasticas, naked elves)
will make this intto a developer nighmare.
Hehe, nice example.
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You're not playing alone are you=) Why can't you take your clothes off in time square but you're perfectly OK to do it in your bathroom? In one place you're with 1000s of strangers in public and in the other place you're alone in your own house. Kind of like a MMO, right?
Don't know what country you're in, but neither swastikas nor naked elves are illegal here. Some may be offended, but it's certainly not illegal. Although the game's rating would have to change to AO and no retailer would carry it then....
BTW, I do aggree that certain things are obscene and should actually be illegal. Furries, for instance.
You can mod whatever you want.
You want your elves to look bright pink, feel free to do so.
Here is where people drop the ball.
They brag on it. Like bragging about robbing someone ...You will get caught.
Anyhow usually it's not okay simply because there are ways to give yourself an advantage over another player.
I've seen it in Wow in the past. Somehow a dude would always know I was stealthing near him and smack me.
How did he do it?
When you cloak you become a "non sight polygon" now he made it so we rogues when cloaked weren't "non sight" .. He made us a default whatever.
See where this can go? Imagine the one power you have over that magic spamming fire nuker being gone.
Things like this make is so.
If the character's looks can be altered, then other features can be as well.
You use oblivion as an example and look how many oblivion mods that can make you too powerful.
It would lead to unbalance and cheating with other players in a MMORPG.
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/RZetlin
Swapping textures won't cause problems in single player games because if you cheat it's not a big deal.
However swapping textures in multiplayer games means you are editting a file which can also be a method of cheating. Add to this that if nude textures started floating around the internet in screenshots the ERSB might be forced to reevaluate the game's rating as they did with Oblivion (and the developer got lots of flak for it).
Swapping textures can lead to model-editting which can lead to other forms of cheating. For instance in WoW there was a hack going around that would edit the model of the battleground gates allowing players to walk through whatever model the gate was replaced with (since your client handles collision, not the servers) and begin capturing points before the game started. Another example is people changing instance models like gates and doors to other models to allow them easy access to the boss for rapid instance farming. As far as I know this still is a popular hack method for farmers in WoW and it's one of the key reasons Warden now blocks all forms of model editting including texture swapping.