Mod Downloads to be Closed Indefinitely. (READ LAST REPLY)

If you can't be bothered to read the repetitive explanations of Aris and Stefano as for why this has happened I see no point in you replying here.

 

Im not entering a discussion, not with you, who I have replied and quoted the answer to already.

 

Allright,

Since apparently some do not want to read or just want to make a bigger drama than it is, Im going to explain it in short words.

AC Is not stopping its support with modded content. The only thing that has changed is that the subforums where people could post "freely" their content have been closed to avoid content to be placed in our forums which should not be there. Think of illegal content or anything else.

This is in no way because of a lack of moderation or anything else, as Aris already explained, when things get bigger, more rules come to follow, perhaps the subforums should never have existed, but as far as I know we are all humans here and mistakes may happen, as simple as that.

Below I'm pasting once again the official clarification given by Aris, which is what you should take as your answer to any question you may have in this matter.

I just want to say one thing, please do not make the ball bigger than it is, we simply just closed the subforums to avoid things from happening which we do not want to, we're in no way removing our support to anything here, if that's clear.

If you have any real doubts about it after reading this reply, feel free to send me a private message and I'll answer you as soon as possible.

Thanks
Kevin

OFFICIAL REPLY: ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS.
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So here it goes.
As I said above, even though KS is still a very small company, we are very proud to have created a world wide brand with AC. AC has sold hundreds of thousands of copies on Steam and consoles version will bring even more. AC is mentioned on big magazines and websites articles together with historic names as Gran Turismo and Forza motorsport... this for us is something that still amaze us and makes us very proud.

Unfortunately with great powers come great responsibilities (I always dreamed to say that, yay!). Italian laws specify that on a moderated and private (i.e. need registration) forum, the owners of the forum are co-responsible for the content of the post of the forum users. We live and have our base on an amazing country, famous for its culture, art, nature and... food. But at the same time also famous for it's bureaucracy, complex law system and confusing law decisions. So when we get complains from other big titles about converted material in our forums, or when we see illegal mods in our forums, or when we are asked to make the referee between mod teams wars, stolen material, personal issues and such, then as you can see it is time for us to take action.

As you can see, it's not a matter to simply moderate, because even if we had the time to do it (we don't), we're still in a very grey area and can't deal always with it. So because of some community members behaviour and because of legal uncertainty and because of the need to do something about it, we decided to do the "bad guys".

Is our decision bad timed? Probably yes
Did we knew it would be unpopular? Certainly yes
Was it really necessary? Absolutely yes.
Could we have done it differently? Probably yes, we are not perfect, we do errors and this is something to learn from.
It is a very painful decision (your passion on this thread shows it clearly) that we had to take. I hope you can now understand better why.

Will we stop encouraging or supporting mods? ABSOLUTELY NO!

Thank you for all these years of great mod material and supporting AC. We try really REALLY hard to bring you the best and hope that our future news will alleviate a bit your frustration.
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