Hero Fighter X (released)

[Silverthorn]

I ask you, why do you want to modify the game? Just to spend your time on something that will never be completed? To try "HQ sprites"? To use it while making more naruto mods?

Experience has shown that games that allow customizability typically live longer than those that aren't. Modifying keeps the gameplay fresh and exciting, potentially even adding novel features and aspects to it. Some developers embrace that and offer some sort of editor (for example, the scenario/map editor in AoE) while others try to keep it all closed off. If people like the game a lot, they will think of ways to circumvent the lock and modify it nevertheless (look at LF2).

Yes, there will be creations that will be sub-par, not liked by certain people, and whatnot, but there is also the chance that something great will come out. Some LF2-mods have set new standards and sparked the interest of many, thus keeping the spirit alive.

Seeing that HF's target group is nearly the same as LF2's it is not surprising that many miss the modding-options. HF's game engine is much more sophisticated than LF2's will ever be, so imagine what could have been done with that.

On one hand, it's unfortunate that it is unlikely that the HF modding scene will thrive, on the other, it seems perfectly reasonable. After all, I understand Marti's point of view, and allowing (un)limited modifications of his game can be a huge risk on gaining any profit at all.



Oh, by the way, to hop on the Flash-is-out-bandwagon: blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html
tl;dr: Adobe sees that Flash is slowly dying and they begin to switch to HTML5 as well.



Just my personal opinions.