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Seems like a sure fire was to piss a lot of modders off and ensure that even more top-tier mods are kept private.Someone on FB recently said that some encrypted mods have been decrypted and were being redistributed. Anyone knows of such mods?
Encryption is here to stay so why not just respect the modder's right to encrypt if that's the only way they're happy to create content and distribute their stuff in the first place, even if the mods aren't scratch-built and are using assets from other sources?
The only time it gets annoying is if the encrypted mod has basic errors that are normally easily fixed by the user (driver position, hand/wheel synch, AI cars stuck on start line etc) and the modder is hard to contact to report these issues or doesn't update the mod even after reports are submitted.
But even in these cases it's not like we're short of content. If the car is totally broken then there will usually be an alternative.
Hopefully the locked-down nature of encryption will increasingly mean that modders are a little more focused on releasing higher-quality pipeline mods, fully tested and free of errors. We've got access to a lot of car mods in AC but the overwhelming majority are total garbage, just hack conversions burped out for fifteen minutes of fame.
Surely we all want quality over quantity?