{"id":58152,"date":"2013-09-07T01:58:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T23:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=58152"},"modified":"2013-09-07T02:12:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T00:12:56","slug":"dice-could-kill-arma-with-mod-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/58152-dice-could-kill-arma-with-mod-tools","title":{"rendered":"DICE could “kill” ARMA with mod tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

DayZ creator Dean Hall said that Battlefield developer DICE could essentially make military shooter, ARMA, irrelevant by providing mod support for modern Battlefield titles.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the PC Gaming World Congress, Hall explained that developer-controlled servers take away the ability for mod support, and that the Bohemia Interactive (which Hall works for) ARMA series would be toppled by Battlefield mod support.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like, I think that if DICE wanted to kill Arma, all they\u2019d need to do is release some modding tools<\/a> tomorrow. Psh, gone. It always really hurt me when Battlefield 2 was the end in terms of modding, so I\u2019m pretty obviously supportive of the whole modding idea,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the challenge that we\u2019re trying to deal with with DayZ at the moment. How do we have the stability and security of an online community like Wargaming has, at the same time as support modding? I don\u2019t have the answer for that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dean Hall<\/p><\/div>\n

Uber Entertainment co-founder Jon Mavor elaborated on the point, saying \u201cThere\u2019s going to be games that are going to allow it and there\u2019s going to be games that aren\u2019t, and the difference is going to be: \u2018Do you have access to the server?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Roberts, who\u2019s Star Citizen<\/a> has generated huge buzz thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign, also added to the challenges of the private server scenario.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m doing it in Star Citizen; you definitely can mod and you can run your own servers, but if you want to be on the big persistent universe everyone else is on, obviously you can\u2019t mod in that situation, because it wouldn\u2019t work if someone built a battleship that could blow everyone up,\u201d said Roberts.<\/p>\n

Check out the entire panel discussion below:<\/p>\n