PC A17 feedback

[Roland]

So that brings me to my primary reason for typing this: I find myself just biding my time waiting for Jax to fix it with Ravenhearst. But is that fair? To the modders i mean.

Of course it is fair. Modders change the game to make it fit to their own personal gaming preferences. They have that skill and so they use it to make the game play the way they want to play it. If your own gaming preference aligns with what the modder has done then you enjoy that mod and feel great satisfaction playing it. There will be other mods that you personally don't enjoy because their gaming preferences are different than yours. Does that mean that their mods are flawed and poorly put together? Because you don't like them? No. Most of the popular mods have large groups who prefer one to another but it would be really simplistic thinking to say that one is objectively better than another.

Same goes for the vanilla game. You don't prefer its current form. But others do. The developers themselves do. It's easy from the comfort of a junior developer armchair to call this decision or that decision "good" or "bad" but it's not really true. Those decisions are good for those who share in the gameplay preferences of the developers and bad for those who don't.

I'm glad that we have people who find satisfaction and joy in using the framework the developers have created in building something creative themselves. I'm glad it brings joy to so many people who play with those mods. So for you, who are biding your time for Ravenhearst....there's nothing wrong with that. It's perfectly fair and natural and endorsed by TFP, themselves. It also has no bearing on the vanilla version because there are plenty of others who aren't biding their time for Ravenhearst. They are playing and enjoying a game that is closer to their own preferences than any vanilla version has ever been.....while at the same time for others the vanilla game has shifted away from what they like.