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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:38PM Tunguska said

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I'd be very surprised if Microsoft let this happen on the 360.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:51PM (Unverified) said

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+1

Good luck getting Microsoft to agree to UGC.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:39PM (Unverified) said

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Good luck getting Microsoft to bend on the mod front, you're much better off trying with Sony as they've had it done before. It's probably something that's much more likely to take off in the next generation of consoles, since everyone's trying to embrace this user created crap lately.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:46PM Arsenic13 said

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How the hell does Farcry 2 and N+ get away with user created maps and such but other games cant? Whats the difference. its user created and shared. Did Ubisoft sneak this by or something?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:56PM DeathroW22 said

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That content is created on the console, Bioware want the stuff created on the PC on the consoles.

The PC tools for this user generated content are 99% of the time much more advanced than anything a console is capable of.

Epic done it with the PS3 version of Unreal tournament 3, all the PC mods can be imported onto the PS3 and used on there, so yeah, its clear they could do it on the PS3, but microsoft apparently doesn't allow developers to give players the ability to import stuff onto the console due to "security".
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:29PM Arsenic13 said

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Oh. I get you. Hmm. MS needs to chill out and solve this issue.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:50PM Kratos said

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Communities keep good games going a lot longer.

It's good Bioware are attempting this there is a lot of great mods and content that people put together to try out once you complete a game and give it a lot more longevity.

Plus as good as developers are they are never in touch with the gaming community like gamers themselves. A lot of the times you can get mods that fit in better with what you want than with what the developers had in mind.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:48PM CaptainProtonX said

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Is that Kirk Angle?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 5:49PM joshua nash said

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i think that getting the pc user created content onto the consoles is a great idea
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:00PM Professor Lario said

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The more info that is released, the cooler this game looks. I am keeping a sharp eye. Anyone have a chance to try it out yet?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:07PM rigmutton said

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Actually, I'm pretty sure that Communists like free content...
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:36PM U U D D L R L R B A SELECT START said

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Only downside is that looooong wait in the bread lines to get it.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 11:32PM (Unverified) said

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I was coming here to say this. The idea of basic communism is the people can distribute and get what they want from each other (A farmer may sell what he grows for however much he wants without need of liscence or whatever and take all the money for gimself and his family, rather than having to have someone take a cut of his livlihood).

I'm pretty sure they meant capitalism.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 9:24AM (Unverified) said

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@Feedback

Actually, that's not the basic idea of communism at all. What you're describing is a system of small freeholders who each hold private property and interact with each other in a regulated free market system. That would be properly called distributism.

In communism, there is no private property.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:03PM (Unverified) said

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I love Bioware and I'm upset Mass Effect 2 ain't on ps3. But I need to be sold Dragon Age can work on the console, had it been like Oblivion I'd be stoked beyond belief, but a huge party system, ugh... I DO NOT pause games to establish some sort of strategy, it feels like I'm cheating and takes you out of the element... oh well, who knows I will keep my eye on it.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:33PM arnavdesai said

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You say you like Oblivion and then say you hate pause. Guess what, Oblivion pauses when you hit the player menu. Its the same with this, the exception being you just choose skills for your party. I have to pause every so often as Oblivion has only 8 mappable spell slots and this makes me pause every so often to get the spells I want, had to pause.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:11PM Sly C said

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in communist china, game mods you!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:19PM (Unverified) said

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This is really cool news. Props to Bioware if they can make this work.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:19PM jhowlett said

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i like free
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 6:49PM BigD145 said

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F it. Keep user created content on the PC.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 7:21PM RKN said

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If the console guys want stuff from the PC, then PC gamers should be able to ask and get stuff on the PC. Cevat Yerli said he kept getting requests from his nephews and other people he knew that when would Crysis come to consoles? How about I keep asking if the GTA4 DLC will come to the PC and I'll get it? : )
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 7:10PM Unclear asdf said

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Well, Epic got mods to work on Unreal Tournament 3 for PS3, so why not?
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 8:21PM (Unverified) said

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I'll just stick with the PC version just to be safe.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 8:26PM TheDarkWayne said

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Nude mods for everyone!
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 8:34PM (Unverified) said

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Could really care less about Mods, and If I did I would get the PC version. If mods really did play a role in the decision of which version to get this could hurt sales for the PC version but mostly it won't because no one cares.
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Posted: Jul 9th 2009 10:55PM iHavePants said

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"could really care less"

Yeah I think they're cool too.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 12:20AM TheDarkWayne said

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you're in a very small minority there about not caring for mods
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Posted: Jul 12th 2009 10:55PM (Unverified) said

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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 8:32AM (Unverified) said

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I don't get the auto-Microsoft bashing. There is obviously a reason MS is hesitant to allow user to created content.

One of the main draws to console gaming is that they just work. I used to be an avid PC gamer and I just got burnt out constantly tweaking, updating and such just to play a new release.

I would love to have user created content on my 360. I just don't know at what expense.

Think about it....there's bound to be people just dying to unleash the first major virus on a console. There's all kinds of things that could cause issues by letting something created by "joe un-vetted" run on your console.
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 4:49PM TheDarkWayne said

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or like i mentioned, nude mods. Imagine the uproar that would cause if fox news found out about it, fuck, isnt DAO supposed to have lots of sex in it as it is?
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Posted: Jul 10th 2009 5:35PM (Unverified) said

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I'm very amenable to this decision. Bioware is the epitome of a great developer with a head on their shoulders.
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Posted: Jul 12th 2009 10:47PM (Unverified) said

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I want that too.
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