July 16th, 2021 - Q&A: Will there be Steam Workshop?

July 16th, 2021

Q&A: Will there be Steam Workshop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WggHmVHGI&t=135

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    1. Jace

      Great job, everyone.

      Will there be Steam Workshop?

      It seems like it's a no-brainer, but there are actually a few reasons why we shouldn't have Steam Workshop support.

      I don't know what we're going to be doing, whether we're going to have it or not, but here are the reasons for not having Steam Workshop.

      First of all, we don't want to fragment the modding

      community, basically.

      So not everyone that plays Satisfactory has access to Steam and or the Steam Workshop.

      So we would prefer it if all of our mods were in one sort of repository that anyone can access regardless of what platform they're on.

      Kind of like what the unofficial modding community is already doing.

      That would be great.

      So people on Steam, people on Epic, whatever, they'll be able to use mods.

      And if we have two different things, if we have Steam Workshop and this other global thing, then it means people, well, one, it means we have more work to do, and two, it also means people who are making mods have more work to do, because if they want everyone to be able to use it, they're going to have to target Steam and this other thing.

      Some people might not target the global one and just target Steam, and then now we've fragmented the community.

      So some people get access to certain mods, and we don't want that.

      We would rather have a level playing field for everybody, kind of what the unofficial modding community is already doing.

      We're, you know...

      That's useful to see what they've been doing so that we can find a good solution ourselves when it comes to it.

      And also, like you might be saying, you know, but Steam Workshop is super convenient, and it is, but don't count out the satisfactory mod manager that the modding community has made so far.

      That thing is super, super easy to use and super convenient.

      So, like, there are convenient solutions for everybody without Steam Workshop.

      We'll see what happens in the future when that happens, but...

      I don't think Steam Workshop is a necessity.

      I don't think it has to be implemented in order for there to be a good mod solution.