Quote Originally Posted by maxpublic
You managed to forget that the critical difference between a modder and game developer is PAY. As in, the game developer gets paid and the modder does not.

If you pay me money, you have every right to expect a finished, usable product. Not just that, but the product I advertised, and no other. If you aren't paying me - if I'm providing my labor for free, and you can choose to use or not as you see fit - then you don't have any right whatsoever to expect anything. Your only 'right', in this case, is to choose to use the product of that labor, or to not use the product of that labor. That's where your rights begin and end. If you don't like the product you're free not to use it. Or you could decide not to engage in whining and create a superior product of your own.



Normal players also need to exercise some small measure of common sense and realize that UNPAID efforts are always going to be beta. UNPAID modders don't have entire design teams to work with, or hordes of beta testers to torture. UNPAID modders *already have jobs*, and those jobs take the 40+ hours out of the week that PAID developers have to work on the game.

Really, the difference between a PAID developer and an UNPAID modder isn't that hard to grasp. But apparently some players are so egomaniacally self-centered they honestly believe they have the right to tell modders what to do, and how to do it, despite the fact that these little cretins offer NOTHING in return for the modders efforts except grief.



Perhaps because it isn't a job. If it were, I and all the other modders out there would be getting checks - from YOU.

Max
So, according to you, modders have no responsibility when it comes to the users of the MOD. They can release anything they want and the users can just lump it. Nor can the the users complain or comment on the flaws of a MOD otherwise they are "egomanically self-centered" or are "little cretins".

On top of it you lecture one of the top and well respected modders in the community, Duke John. Think before you post.