Pete Hines: Fallout 3 Mod Tools “Not On Our Schedule Right Now.”
According to an interview with Pete Hines from Rock, Paper, Shotgun; the PC version of Fallout 3 will not come with a mod kit out the gate, and while he doesn’t rule one out in the future, it’s as good as locked in a vault for now.
Hines said that producing the mod tools takes a helluva lotta time and effort, and that people have become to accustomed to having them in Bethesda games, but this time, no dice.
“Folk probably took for granted that every time we make a game, there’s a mod tool. We explained to folk that it takes a lot of time and effort to get that tool ready for release, and it’s not on our schedule right now. We need to get the game done and out. It’s not to say we won’t do it. It’s that right now we have an enormous amount of work to do, for three platforms and all these different languages to get it out around the wall. Right now, we can’t say definitively ‘there will be mod tools, and here is when they’ll be out.’ That work remains to be done.”
Hines went on to say that he and the team at Bethesda support modding, but don’t have the time or the manpower to put together a mod tools package.
“Is that to say it’ll never come out? No, I’ll never say that. If we have the time, we’d absolutely like to put them out. As we’ve seen with Oblivion and Morrowind those things definitely create a sense of community and there’s tons of people out there modding. We have our own little blog we run from Bethesda, and every week we’re out there interviewing people from our mod community – so it’s clearly something we support, something we take interest in and something we place value in and spend a lot of time highlighting good mods. It’s just the tools take time. They don’t magically appear.”
Surely, if they put the game out there some enterprising gamer will make their own mod kit somehow or another. But for those disinclined to tamper with their post-apocalyptic wasteland, we might just have to wait for them to get around to it.
Read the full interview here.
Source: Rock Paper Shotgun
