So? Who cares if someone comes up with nude mods or romance related mods. It's not like they're forcing them down people's throats. Either you use them or you don't, there's no reason to complain about their existence. I'm someone who dislikes the playersexual characters of DA 2 but I didn't have a problem with Alistair being playersexual through a mod, because that is what it is, a mod. Taking that seriously, to me, is just as ridiculous as taking someone's fanfiction seriously. The only time I objected to something related to such mods was when someone was asking the devs to "edit" Alistair so they may preserve their M-M romance with him in DA Keep that they had through the use of the mod.
As for not requiring tools, how do you know? The game seems to be very big and very accessible this time around, and I'd like access to it's assets. If the tool can give me proper editing power over the in-game elements, be it creatures, objects, characters, weather etc, why not? Creating content with officially released tools is always the most efficient and safest.
I think your issue is not with allowing access to modders but with what they do with it. If people want to change Sera to include heterosexual romance, let them. What's it to you? Neither is it affecting you in anyway, nor will it ever make it's way to the actual game.
In any case, it seems the only reason they were not able to release a mod tool for the game this time is because of the switch to the new engine and the usage of third party tools, and not because they have opinions like "we don't want modders changing the work of our artists because we think it's disrespectful" or "we're afraid of our characters going nude and playersexual".
Wow, that's quite a leap from what I said to what you cherry picked me to have said. However, I'll try to be a bit plainer, so maybe you get it: If that's the sum of what I'd be paying for, it's not worth my money. I'm a 51 year old biker who used to bounce at a strip club; nudity does not offend me. Neither does somebody's sexuality. However, I'm not going to fork over enough money to buy another game just to make nude models and alter NPC sexuality to suit me. Of course, I laid out what would be worth my money in the rest of the post that you quoted. Instead of commenting on the whole of my post, you decided, I guess for the sake of sensationalism, to focus on this?
So, since one of the arguments is "modding allows replay-ability", did you use each of the nude model mods for each different play-through? Just one? I mean, it's not like there's only one mod available that does that. How, exactly, does altering Morrigan's hair color, or facial features add to your ability to replay? Do you use a different one every time you start a new game? Note that since this seems to be such a big deal to you since you chose to ignore everything else I said to focus on this, I'm going to have to assume that you did indeed run each of these mods individually in each playthrough. That's cool, if naked pixels are what you're in to.
For me, as I already said, that's inadequate to demand my cash. I want to build areas, not maps. That means I need to be able to set the ambience, right down to music and lighting. I want tools as robust as what we had for NWN/NWN2, tools that allowed me to build what I wanted to build to tell the stories I wanted to tell, instead of just making nudes, and altering NPC sexuality. I'm sorry if what I'd consider to be worth my money is a lot deeper than what you'd like to be able to do, but hey, that's why it's my money. If, on the other hand, you're going to be giving me your money to spend, then I'll spend it however you think is appropriate. For me, content, or the tools to make content that shallow isn't worth paying for.
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