Numa discussão na RaceDepartment (http://www.racedepartment.com/forum/threads/modding-in-pcars-want-opinions.54864/), o Ian Bell falou pela primeira vez no assunto (e foi a primeira pessoa da SMS a fazê-lo, tendo depois outras pessoas da equipa no fórum WMD falado ligeiramente), com algumas frases que puseram muitos dos radicais que afirmavam a pés juntos que o PCARS não teria mods completamente à toa.

 

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Ian Bell wrote:

We fully intend to allow modding in many areas. What we won't want is hacking. Thus, we're working on robust tools for this area.

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We'll put modding to the members in a poll as we do with every important decision. They do decide these things, we don't. I want it and I'm paying the money to see the tools are developed for it, but I won't veto the majority, that would go against everything we stand for.

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There are many senior members on the team and I suspect that many won't go with Micas' vote, I could be wrong though. As it stands my personal view is to allow modding but crucially, with proper tools that we code. This makes it easier for us, easier for modders and eliminates the need to go hacking. We started as modders 11 years ago and it's in our blood, mine particularly. In short I'll be lobbying hard for it.

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I should give a bit of background here. The issue that some have against modding is that it might reduce the income we can receive from selling DLC packs as many of the cars/tracks/physics/other cool things would be out there for free from modders. My opinion is that we have a big enough and talented enough team to be confident in our abilities to make things that people feel are worthy of shelling out some money for. The other classic argument for modding is that it extends the lifetime/cycle of a game. It does indeed, but the developer doesn't get any revenue from this and that's something that those positing said argument don't consider fully. Again, I see no reason why paid work and free work can't coexist. Nearly forgot. Keeping the online racing fair is another big issue with modding.

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Ou seja, não será pela SMS que o PCARS não será aberto a mods. O que não deixa de ser interessante!