Modding Community, Game Companies and Profits

You know about mods, right – the user-made modifications which bring MASSIVE changes to games to the extent that you can consider a sufficiently modded game a new game in itself. They do SO much to improve, extend, enrich and polish any given game. Not to mention unofficial patches which…

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Lockpicking : The Unnecessary and Unrealistic Skill in RPGs

Lockpicking. Skyrim has it. World of Warcraft has it. Many other RPG games have it. They force you to take it either through your class, or through game-world features, or through rewards. You lockpick boxes in Wow, lockpick doors in instances, or say, you lockpick chests, doors in Skyrim. But…

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