This a bullstuff comparison and you know it. No one is being abused and molested by this mod existing, and using this argument suggests you're really clutching at straws for a means to validate how exorbitantly angry you're getting over something so minor, again.
No, nobody is going to be abused or molested by this mod, but I seriously do believe that it's a VERY bad thing as a content creator to waste somebody's time. Believe it or not, game designers (and modders) have moral standards they should be aiming for to. Just because you don't want to think about them doesn't mean they exist.
My point is that not acknowledging something doesn't make it go away.
Why do all mod developers have to be held to a high standard for mods they do for free, for their own personal reasons.
Because they're producing content for other people. You're taking their bandwidth, their hard-drive space, their electricity and their time. You might say "oh it doesn't matter uuuuhhhhhhh", but you're smart enough to know that you wouldn't want your time wasted either.
If you're making a mod for yourself, keep it to yourself. If you have any slight interest in making content for other people, then you
damn well better make sure your content is made in the interest of not wasting another person's time. Making mods isn't about masturbating over a game, it's about making other people's experiences with a game better or more interesting.
This a mod supported by a charity that's trying to just spread a little bit of their own fun through a game.
And rather than enhancing the gameplay experience, it ends up ruining it and blocking off players from interacting with the game world. Other GTA mods give players
more interactions, rather than taking away from them.
It'd be acceptable if there was an actual decent statement about the gameplay in the mix (see that one DOOM mod design to riff on Call of Duty). There's literally no relevance of the message of the mod to the core gameplay.
It doesn't matter if they restrict parts of the core game for their own thing. They're just using GTA as a medium.
Yes, it does.
As I said, the role of mods is to enhance the player's experience of a game (the exception are total conversions/overhauls, which you can basically see as new video games on top of the pre-existing and compiled engine). My experience is not enhanced when I literally cannot interact with part of the world thanks to the mod.
Would you scream at a hobbyist/non-professional for drawing a picture and not using all of the paper?
If I felt that the hobbyist was wasting their time and could be using that time to achieve amazing, cool stuff that would benefit themselves and others, I would do anything in my power to get them to do things better.
I've seen so many talented people waste their wonderful talents on producing stuff, because they haven't learnt better by figuring out who their audience is. Why make stuff and spent the effort to upload and release it if nobody wants to play with it because it ruins their experience? Wouldn't you want to be known for making awesome stuff that makes the game twice as good?
You're upset because the inability to run down a Pride Parade doesn't match the theme of the base game?
Dooble, you're not that stupid.
You know exactly what I'm arguing about. I'm arguing about standards and quality control and the removal of player interactions. You know that I take games seriously and you know that I care a lot about making sure the player gets to have a damn good time doing whatever they want within the rules of the gameplay, and that inconsistent rules are the BANE of my existence.
Yes, I get that most players dislike this because they want to (jokingly or non-jokingly) run down the participants, but those aren't my reasons. If I downloaded this mod, I'd actually like to see how they'd behave if I drove/stopped in front of them, if I walked up to members of the parade and stared at them, if I tripped up one member central to the parade etc. Removing those interactions means that these guys are nothing more than a moving brick wall that doesn't respond to the player, breaking the immersion (basic player psychology).
Do you stuff yourself over the mods for robot mechas, superpowers, or car tornados? They have nothing to do with GTAs themes.
Do they break or do they add to the player's possible world interactions? Also, wasn't there a part of GTA V that involved getting so high that you "get abducted by aliens and fall through the sky"? This game accentuates the insanity and it tries to point out that routine leads to people going nuts.
GTA isn't some holy ground that it's treason to defile.
It's a video game with well balanced mechanics and world interactions. Upsetting those interactions ruins the immersion. You might not think that's important, but you're not the one playing the game with the mod installed as far as I'm aware.
The modders don't look like they're after a pat on the back.
Maybe you're right, but with a mod as "big" as this which is trying to "tackle" a big social issue, I think on some level they were looking for a reaction from the audience.
Anyone seriously upset just has their knickers in a twist.
Or maybe there's legitimate complaints that some people have?
If you don't like it, don't download it. No one forces you to download or confront any mod.
This is LITERALLY the worst argument used by anybody ever.
Not posting, commenting or critiquing on something that is clearly stuff does NOT make that thing less stuff, nor does it let others know why they shouldn't make stuff. The Internet is about allowing people to have a voice; it's completely unfair to silence those who have a different opinion to you on the basis of "they don't like it", especially when there's deeper reasoning at play.
The simple fact of the matter is that it's being talked about, which brings it to my attention and brings the bad practices behind it to my attention. It's not the mod I'm most angry about, but it's an example I can use to voice my frustrations.
Or you could make your own mod to gun down pride parades if that's what you actually care about.
Yes, every time somebody does something wrong, rather than have them understand and fix it, let's just have other people copy it with minor changes and upload that? Because that's going to go down well! No copyright complaints, flame wars or large-scale drama ever came from that!
Or just download The Ballad of Gay Tony and shoot up the gay club there.
Yeah, buy a $30USD expansion pack which has far less refined mechanics and interactions just to compensate for the fact that a mod doesn't let me do the same things to the parade pedestrians that I can do to every other pedestrian in the world.
Very smart.
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