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On Steam, Discord, and some posts here, I read that the devs are strictly against mods. You can't even talk about it on the discord server.

What I want to know is why? I really hope my post doesn't get deleted, as I'm not distributing or requesting a mod. I just want to understand why the devs have such a negative stance towards it.

Games like Lethal Company have countless of mods available that don't ruin the experience for anyone. Why can't we have the same thing with Phasmophobia as well? I understand that devs are busy on game updates and making the game available for consoles, so why not let other people add content to their game for literally free?

I'm not talking about cheating, but about more skins, funny sounds (like the yippeee), weird hats and accessories to add to your player, put a funny hat on a ghost, some mini games to pass time while being dead/ghost, a mimic that mimics the voice of players, weird but funny jumpscares - like opening a wardrobe and a cat meows/jumps at you (then you can keep it in the van).

Things like that. I'm not talking about "competition" with the devs, as in making new maps that potentially turn out to be better than the current maps and the devs get jealous (a person on Steam mentioned that some devs have a big ego, I know nothing about it, it's just someone else's opinion on why they don't allow mods), I'm talking about relatively cosmetic changes.

What's y'all's opinion on mods? And if I ever get lucky enough to be noticed - why do you, devs, hate mods so much?

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9 months ago - /u/Dknighter - Direct link

Originally posted by tyko2000

Lethal Company has the control company mod that's been devastating public lobbies due to its nature. It only needs to be on the host, there's no active way to detect it besides having the same mod yourself iirc. I don't think that is a fair analogy at this point in time, even with the plethora of other great mods for it.

I can imagine how things would go if a control ghost mod could be stealthed in on public lobbies and begin spontaneously murdering folks, and having the devs explain that this isn't their doing, it was 3rd party scripts they allowed to go on their game. I just don't see that going well!

Hey, this is pretty much the reason why we are against it as we have no way of filtering mods on the public games