September 1st, 2020 Livestream
Q&A: Steam Workshop support ?
This question was possibly duplicated with a more recent answer: October 3rd, 2023 Livestream Q&A: Will the game eventually feature Steam Workshop support for Mods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzGBJPjFrFo
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and while we're speaking of mods yeah steam workshop support so, steam workshop support isn't, like isn't guaranteed, I know like steam workshop is awesome don't get me wrong, the the problem with steam workshop is that we don't want like we kind of see mods as like an integral part of satisfactory and we've always thought of mods as like kind of an integral part of satisfactory because this is a really like this is a game that we see a lot of modding potential right and we've always seen that and that's why we've developed in certain ways so that monster is simple to implement and we're even amazed that mods have already been made we did not think that people are going to be able to dish out so many mods before we even have like proper mod support because we will have official mod support at some point, however the most important aspect of this is the ecosystem of mods right so if one of the important aspects to us is that we want to be able to to support both the epic and the steam version equally we don't want we want to we don't want it to be the case where like the steam version is the one that has all the good mods and the epic version doesn't have any cool mods right so we don't want that happen we want there to be an equal spread, that way it's important for us that like the people that make mods it's like a nice ecosystem for them more so than it is like easy to download it if you're on steam, and I know that like epic are work like I think they're about to release their version of workshop on epic if they haven't already I think that that would be bigger news though but, they are working on their own version of that but even if they do like make their own version of that and we have like both steam workshop and the epic version of their like if it's a pain in the ass for people that are making mods to like upload it to like vice versa store then like we want to support the mods we want to be able to like distribute monster equally so in that case we'd rather put in the work and like make a you know an in-game mod store or you know I don't know like tie in the mod manager somehow I don't know how we would do that but, like that's that's the long-winded answer to like why steam workshop isn't like guaranteed to happen maybe it will maybe won't but that's essentially why, why you get such a shitty answer for that, and and what I think is gonna happen is we're gonna make our own mod like loader or something like that or or maybe get help from the modding community and we can together make something I don't know but essentially we want to yeah the ecosystem for mods has to be great and that's important to us