(something steam workshop couldn't do even back when you could get mods from it for other PC site releases) The additional advantage (for the developer) is that mod io isn't just cross platform with other PC distribution (epic, gog, etc.) but also allows them to support their console releases with mods. Mod.io enables both PC and consoles players to do this, which is why we made the decision to use it over Workshop. ![]() Steam Workshop is awesome, but we wanted to make sure players across all platforms could access modding in Two Point Campus, rather than making it Steam specific. However, by the time they published Two Point Campus, Valve is no longer allowing Steam to to distribute workshop mods outside of Steam, so they've chosen mod io as a cross platform solution. Back when they released Two Point Hospital, steam still allowed workshop mods to be distributed to anyone and Two Point Hospital had extensive workshop integration. Kalypso (and many publishers) are choosing to only focus on one distribution location for mods that work across all platforms.Īnother example would be Sega (publisher) with Two Point Studios (developer). Tropico 6 is available from multiple places, steam, epic, windows store and so on. ![]() In response, any company that has a game across multiple platforms is now more likely to use a different mod release site so that they only need to support one mod site that releases to all of their distribution platforms.įor a game to support steam workshop, they now either need to restrict their playbase to steam only or spend the manpower to support multiple distribution platforms, and that's an easy to avoid expense as a developer. That was changed a couple years ago to only allow steam users to download from the workshop. The "problem" is steam used to allow workshop mods to be downloaded by anyone. Originally posted by Plitz:Steam has a perfectly fine working workshop.
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