sodomymcscurvylegs:

sodomymcscurvylegs:

asexualhawke:

buttsauce-vakarian:

halloweezos:

lmao lmao lmao lmao

considering we are paying you to do it and considering FANS can do it for free when modding shit ton of other games, i’d fucking say it is DOABLE at least 

also, very mature tweet, are you fucking 12?? 

lollllll holy shit

You’re not “paying him” to do anything. He has a budget that is perceived by the producers of the game as adequate for the possible sales. You’re not paying him or the DA team a single penny until you actually purchase a copy of the game. Furthermore, fans doing hair mods in their free time isn’t the same: fans aren’t usually under severe time and budget management constraints like developers are; they can pretty much take as long as they want to do this. Modders are also not generally saddled with developing entire games; when your only job is to focus on making hair for characters, it’s not super simple, but it’s easier than having to design an entire game from the ground up. Even with these considerations, hair mods usually exist in high numbers because hair just isn’t a massive priority for developers. There’s a reason why you can point to hair mods, in specific; it’s because there are about a billion since it’s a pretty low priority on a developer’s list of things to do. It’s especially not a priority if something makes extra it difficult to do (like horns interacting with the hair).

This isn’t even taking into account that modeling and hair drawing hair aren’t even remotely the same. His comment is accurate: drawing is simpler. When you model something complex like hair, you have to account for all kinds of shit, like animation/movement.etc.

Y’all need to cease and desist. He’s lashing back because y’all can’t even control yourselves.

Let me also point out the obvious problem with talking about mods here: all mods are optional, and they’re optional precisely because they exist for PC gamers who feel that the vanilla version of games are lacking. But, as someone who has extensively modded his copy of Skyrim, I can tell you that the one of things you always run into when modding is a question of what your rig can and can’t handle. A lot of really graphical heavy mods can cripple a game’s framerate and bring it to a crawl (usually happens when running heavy ENBs with high resolution texture packs, for example). Developers can’t work within the parameters of some make believe land where they can design crazy shit for their games and not optimize them. You know what happens when developers ignore constraints and go bat shit crazy with design? You end up with shit like Shadow of Mordor, which requires the fucking insane 6GB of RAM from your GPU to run in “ultra” settings. This is a lack of optimizing a game to the most possible hardware out there. Something every modder knows is that to mod your games, you run the risk of making it unplayable, and not just through glitches or mods interacting negatively with each other.

It’s super easy to look at gorgeous, high end hair mods on the Nexus and ask why games don’t bring hair for characters like that out of the box. It’s an entirely different situation to actually add those mods in there and see if they are optimized properly for the game you’re playing. It’s also simpler to draw nice hair on screenshots when you don’t have to worry about shit like performance issues on hardware, physics and animations of hair, interaction with other objects (horns, for example), etc. So, yeah, I think Gaider has every right to respond like this to this nonsense from this out of control fandom. I’d be furious too.