I felt like venting so I thought id do it here in a conveniently placed "off-topic" board lol
So, I admin a facebook page of gamers. As of late I have become more and more frustrated with people bashing us modders, because they "assume" mods to mean "cheats"
Literally, I posted a valid explanation asking people to just bare these things in mind:
When you bash modders saying that they are ALL "cheaters", "lowlifes" and "S*** at games", you are insulting people like me, who harm no one and do it with full authority from the developers
Some games like Final Fantasy 7 on the PC were released broken. You could play up to a certain point and the game would crash. It was "modders" who released the patch, and this same patch was later reused by square on the re-release and linked on the Square website
Games like GTA people release entire rewrites of the graphics engine to fix bugs and increase quality
Valve were that impressed with a left 4 dead mod, they now "sell" it themselves on console?
^^^^^ None of these things are disruptive to other players, espcially those on console
I also highlighted that my mod, is just a map, and whatever goes with it. It in no-way disrupts other peoples gaming.
He just instantly came back bashing me, telling me that i must be terrible at games, and in ANY situation at all modding is illegal, and regardless of "what you think" it IS against the rules...
I ported links, proof, examples....
It all just came back to "its illegal and all your sources are lies"
Well... you guys all know i am 100% telling the truth, so I post this question to you all :
"How do you get someone to consider ALL factors of a argument, if they refuse to believe ANY evidence that backs up your point?"
I know we are talking about facebook here, so the likely answer is "Its impossible", but I felt like entertaining the thought
This guys words really hurt me, as I usually share my progress there, another guy even blocked me then put up a post (obviously unaware that admins can STILL see it....) that they have blocked "cheaters" and theres no occasion where any mod is productive or creative...
I was that pi**ed that I banned him. Firstly I wasnt even talking to him, he jumped in just to have his 2 cents and block me lol
I call what we do, a form of "art". How bout you guys?
(Dont know why I let this make me so mad.... I guess its coz he literally bashed all my hard work, for reasons that are not even related to it)