Finally Understanding SE's Decision Making (And Why It Won't Change)

[ovIm]

The sad thing is a lot of us would do it for free, considering that's literally what modders and tool developers are doing. They just need to ask for the help. It's that simple.

Since you are saying that: OP posted about Warframe. Warframe has a system in place called Tennogen, where fans and modders are allowed to create their own skins and share them with the Warframe developer. Good stuff then gets implemented in the game. Sure, that would require quite a bit of lawyer work to set such a system up without risk of legal liability, but it would not be impossible to allow fan contributions in their game (after a quality check, of course).

[Jeeqbit]

where fans and modders are allowed to create their own skins and share them with the Warframe developer. Good stuff then gets implemented in the game. Sure, that would require quite a bit of lawyer work to set such a system up without risk of legal liability, but it would not be impossible to allow fan contributions in their game (after a quality check, of course).

They could also do that via github. It has a pull request system, where they can be approved or declined. It is used regularly by developers around the world to accept contributions from random people. They are checked and verified before being approved.

The issue of course is that some of their files and source will be proprietary and can't be shared publicly. But that's fine. They don't need to put everything there. Just things like lua files, shaders, textures and excel files, which the community would easily pour over and improve.