Posted March 02, 2019
(I'll preface this by saying I don't know much about Steam Workshop.)
I know many here don't want GOG to continue becoming more like Steam, that's fine if that's how you feel, including how you don't want GOG making a version of "Steam Workshop". However, I got the sense that the PC version of Skyrim almost went hand-in-hand with Workshop, or had a strong association, because of all the mods for Skyrim that got made. Since there are so many mods for Skyrim out there, before releasing Skyrim1!11!!!!!! here, would GOG want to first develop something to make modding easy (which I thought was the point of Workshop)? I assume Steam workshop doesn't allow easy downloading of mods for backup, so maybe GOG could? (I suppose GOG could let people link to other services that let people download mods like Nexus, but there's something to be said about being able to easily download mods directly from your GOG account.)
edit: side-question: Skyrim original vs Skyrim Special Edition - are there important enough differences (like Doom 3 original or Metro 2033 original) between the two that you'd want GOG to "push" for the original to come here? (since Bethesda presumably wants to push Special Edition only, because of the higher price tag)
I know many here don't want GOG to continue becoming more like Steam, that's fine if that's how you feel, including how you don't want GOG making a version of "Steam Workshop". However, I got the sense that the PC version of Skyrim almost went hand-in-hand with Workshop, or had a strong association, because of all the mods for Skyrim that got made. Since there are so many mods for Skyrim out there, before releasing Skyrim1!11!!!!!! here, would GOG want to first develop something to make modding easy (which I thought was the point of Workshop)? I assume Steam workshop doesn't allow easy downloading of mods for backup, so maybe GOG could? (I suppose GOG could let people link to other services that let people download mods like Nexus, but there's something to be said about being able to easily download mods directly from your GOG account.)
edit: side-question: Skyrim original vs Skyrim Special Edition - are there important enough differences (like Doom 3 original or Metro 2033 original) between the two that you'd want GOG to "push" for the original to come here? (since Bethesda presumably wants to push Special Edition only, because of the higher price tag)
Post edited March 04, 2019 by tfishell