Can I see your id?
Last week, Bethesda released a remastered edition ofDoomandDoom IIon Steam, with lots of extra episodes and improvements.
Basically, lots of good fan-made mods are now playable onthe Steam versionof ye olde Doom.
Ah, but there is some demon excrement on the health pack, so to speak.
But he’s also a regularcreator of Doom mods.
He explains the problem with the recent Doom remaster in that post, but let me break it down.
Essentially, there are two avenues to install and play a mod within the new Doom remasters.
Things likeSigil 2by Romero Games, orHarmonyby Thomas van der Velden.
The second avenue for finding mods is found by clicking “Browse”.
At the time of writing there are over 700 mods available here, browsable with some very basic filters.
An upload button also appears in the menu.
The issue is that there seems to be very little moderation going on at all.
“[You] can pretty much just… upload whatever files you feel like with it?”
“And put whatever text you want to go with it?
Others may simply not want to play whack-a-mole to ensure their mod is properly credited.
Some mods in this “chum-bucket” will also be simply broken, LeBreton points out.
you’re free to find the origional [sic] on the doomseeker website.”
Some modders are taking to Steam toask people not to upload creationswithout the author’s say-so.
I can understand the annoyance.
It’s not clear how Zenimax will address the issue.
The company has a rocky track record with modders.
