Re: Against Fanpatches

Werner Spahl <spahl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

>On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Xocyll wrote:
>
>> If you're fixing a bug, it's a patch.
>> If you're changing how the game looks/plays, it's a mod.
>
>I don't think it is that simple, e.g. when a bug prevents a lot of special
>dialogue to be seen, as with Bloodlines, and we fix this, the way the game
>can be played changes. On the other hand when I re-skin some guards at the
>Giovanni mansion with the unused but great Justicar skin nothing gameplay-
>wise is changing but the look of some enemies. Now which one is "modding"?

If you fix a bug, you're not changing how the game is SUPPOSED to look
and/or play.

That's why I included the line you snipped about the developers
themselves doing mods in their patches - but since it's their game and
they have the final say about how it's "supposed" to be, that's still a
patch unless they label it otherwise.

If you MODify something, you're doing a mod.

If you're bug fixing, you're doing a patch, you're FIXING something
that's supposed to work so that it does.

Now all that said, I commend you for your work, but it really should be
labeled as a mod or bugfix/mod since you are modifying the game.

Xocyll
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