LucasArts Embraces Game Mod Community

An anonymous reader writes "LucasArts has taken a great step in promoting the modification of their titles and supporting the communities that love them! According to this press release, LucasArts has teamed up with LFNetwork to open LucasFiles.com. The site is dedicated to all files that fall in the LucasArts realm." Given competing games like Neverwinter Nights, which have a phenomenal amount of user-created add-ons, this is a very smart move for LucasArts.

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They live again

[WildBeast]

Now if Lucasarts can finally start making good games, that'll help to.

NWN is not the answer.

[grumpygrodyguy]

NWN, great concept...poor execution.

Until they fix the camera angle, I'm sticking with EQ. Above all I need to be able to play w/o contracting chronic nack/back injuries from trying to see what's 15 feet in front of my character all day.

No, Bioware did not deliver on this one folks. They highly restricted the user environment, and there is very little customizability in the game at all(except hot-swappable keys which have been around almost a decade).

Game mods have been been a huge benefit to gamers(Half-life being the best example). But it's going to be someone else that runs with the fantasy genre.

Re:NWN is not the answer.

[grumpygrodyguy]

There are plenty of user made mods that free the camera, along with tons of other mods that expand and extend the game.

I really resent that my original post was modded as a troll. It wasn't a troll at all, it was a sincere relation of how I felt about a product that I payed good money for, and invested a lot of my time in.

I was one of the first people to buy NWN, and I stuck it out for almost 2 months. I downloaded the ONLY available camera alteration and it helped but there were some major flaws. First-person view mode wasn't available for example.

I used to love to play PnP D&D when I was younger, and have a great deal of love for the genre. But Bioware made a very clumsy job of providing for variety in the user experience. It's OK if a DM wants to disable first person mode, but it is NOT ok if these game itself doesn't support a first person view mode!

After 2 months of waiting for Bioware to get a clue and fix the problem, or perhaps for some motivated mod-dev to fix it...the problem was not addressed. It's 6 months after I stopped playing NWN out of sheer disappointment. Maybe in that amout of time things have improved. I've been too disheartened to check back.

I hope you can understand that my disappointment with the game is derived from my sincere desire to see it done right. All I saw was Bioware ignoring the requests of thousands of customers like myself who were very dissapointed with the draconion "written in stone" policy that Bioware adhered to w/ regard to fixing what very much needed to be fixed.

Initial impressions are important...especially after someone pays $60 for a game they've been waiting 2 years for. I was terribly dissapointed, and disgusted w/ Bioware's inability to admit they made a mistake with the camera angle. If it's not ok for a game company to admit they may be wrong, then there's no real way for user input to effect the kinds of changes that need to be made to improve the game.

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