yes I am accepting constructive criticism
My reasonings
Good
- ROMhacking dot net is a good cataloguing site but won't host any actual modded roms, just the patch files
- don't really have anything bad to say about moddb except that there's so many abandoned WIP mods hanging around
- Gamebanana has a lot of really cool shit for games that can't be found anywhere else but god is its UI horrendous
Neutral
- GitHub is GitHub
- Nexus Mods has done a lot of shady shit, is arguably moving to become a monopoly but at the same time they will remove chud hate mods and aren't a completely hostile user experience
- Steam Workshop is a lawless wasteland
Evil
- Curseforge has done a LOT of anti-consumer motions in the past and is also gunning for mod monopoly status
- LoversLab
- idk if adfly is even still relevant in this day and age but it's been the bane of my fucking existence long enough so I'm including it
The flagship game for steam workshop (TF2) has enough content to create years of updates and yet Valve doesn't even let people do client-side model replacements *in casual because they know it jeopardizes the Mannco stores existence.
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Casual mode only exists because the previous matchmaker would just dump you onto literally any server with open slots. While people got annoyed over furry servers, this ultimately sustained a lot of communities with passive traffic.
The updated(2016) and current matchmaker only sends you to official servers and community servers are relegated to the server browser. This ended up suffocating a bunch of servers.
aaand then they implemented a modding ban in competitive and casual.
The shittiest part is people will use cheating as a valid reason to ban modding wholesale all because some dipshit used transparent wall textures or replaced spy's decloaking sound with a train horn- even after 2 YEARS of server-wiping bot raids.
Sorry I can't help ranting about this. I wasted too many years in this game, and Valve literally just waits until people forget about the last shitty thing they did.