OK, give it to someone else to fix, and then let people enjoy it instead of just keeping it unfinished. Or finish it, and release it, instead of taking a loving month or even a year.
If we would give everything we work on to others because it takes us (too) long to fix it, would we ever learn from our mistakes?
I think not.
And most of the time, the creator of mods wants the mod to be like they had in mind.
When you just throw it out in the wild there are 3 things that could happen:
-1- Nothing, the mod dies, nobody picks it up and you forget about it.
-2- The mod gets picked up and is made exactly like the creator had it in mind.
-3- The mod gets picked up and transformed in something sub-par or completely different then the creator had in mind.
Guess which point is very unlikely to happen? Point 2.
That is because everyone thinks differently about how something should be and the creator wouldn't be happy in most cases with the result.
The thing is, you also can't just throw every unfinished thing out there to let other people finish it.
I rarely hear about a painter taking too long to paint something and some other painter replaces him to finish it.
I do hear about it sometimes with games,
but guess what happens.
I understand that it is frustrating when some cool mod takes long to finish and sometimes even gets shown, but never gets finished, but you have to accept the creator's stance a bit as well.
He has (started) creating it, it is his creation and he can't always just let go of his creation to let others finish it.
It is a good and bad thing.
The good thing is, it could be a great reason for the developer to work on it, but on the other hand he can also just not feel like working on it, nor giving it out just yet in the mindset that he will work on it later.
Later gets even more later and even more later until at some point it gets forgotten by most people, sometimes including the developer.
You can't just force every developer to always put out whatever they are working on in whatever state.
You gotta think of them a bit as well, it is their project after all.
It would be the same if we just demanded of all the modelers to put out all the models they have created so others can 'finish' them.
It just doesn't work like that.
I agree that there should be a bit more sharing of content, but we cannot just demand every developer to surrender their creations to the public immediately.
Give them some time and room to develop the project and their own skills while they are at it.
That is also why we can't have nice things, no patience.
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