I could not even tell you how many RP servers I have played on that have NEVER used these mods. Some had used NO MODS at all. This mod is NOT ESSENTIAL for RP. Plain and simple. If you leave this game because this mod was removed, possibly for legitimate reasons then you really do not care about this game at all do you? 
My first Conan RP server that I played on had no mods at all. It was a great and memorable experience.
I love my mods. I support and go to bat for our wonderful modding community who’s tireless work give us great amounts of entertainment. But I don’t support those players who take the mods for granted make petty tantrums about leaving over it. Because those players tend to be the ones who storm into a modder’s discord and make demands when a patch is 5 minutes old and make comments about how it ‘only needs a recook’.
And some rpers do use mods, I dunno why some of you are so threaten by people being upset about this
Not if denied access to the kit, which is linked thru an epic account. That would invite even more trouble.
They’re saying they are going to quit. So they are no threat at all to anyone. They just make real RPers look bad with their tantrums. I can only hope they follow through with their words, which likely counts for less than dirt.
people complaining to a company about thing they care about, shocking, i know, you dont have to fight for funcom you know, they can fight for themselves, if they dont want those peoples money, they wont take it
They don’t even have a clue to what they are complaining about. But if you think they do, by all means, inform us of why the mod was taken down.
If you spent hours making a character, customizing them, tweaking them, all to your liking, then finally got it in a way you enjoy, And then spent thousands of hours using that character, roleplaying with others, only to be told that “You can no longer roleplay this character” because, let’s face it, you won’t get the same sort of creative fidelity with the default character customization that you can get with mods, you’d probably consider quitting as well.
YeAh sure, there are alternatives. IQOL is okay for replacing the body slider modification. The other solutions though for mixing wardrobe functionality are a direct downgrade both in fidelity and functionality for admins and players. (And some still cause crashes when used near other players to this day). Personally, I’ve never had a custom warpaint mod work putting the warpaint and coloring it correctly on the character.
you dont need to know why to complain about something
You do realize IQOL wasn’t the first character customization mod, right? There was at least one if not two before it. I’ve lost characters several times over the years because of such mods either not being updated in time for a server owner to decide to wipe and move on. Or because a mod ceased being updated entirely. I’ll be playing long after IQOL ceases to be updated, and long after ToT! Custom ceases to be updated (assuming it comes back, I don’t see why it wouldn’t).
I wonder if you are willing to stand by that position regardless of what that reason could be. Either way, I’m going to hold many of you to that.
Yeah, I do, and, by the looks of it, a lot of other players are simply sick and tired of the nigh constant wiping of their characters. At least with !custom you could migrate your character from place to place a lot easier as it was an all in one solution. To get the same level of fidelity in customization without !custom, a server needs several other mods that only sometimes play well together and generally cause fatal error crashes frequently.
I’ve been playing since early access, when the only place was the desert just before unnamed city was added. I’ve put way too many hours in this game without mods to the point where I can, in about a day get all the pieces to the keystone, star metal, and have a functioning T3 base. I did take breaks because this game isn’t actually all that entertaining for me anymore without mods. I’d prefer at least a year without some form of drama within the mod community, but that doesn’t seem possible.
Maybe I will, but for right now, funcom made a decision that affects me playing their game, so I will complain
That’s how the world works. Every day someone, somewhere, makes decisions that affect our lives. And sure, we have the right to complain about them.
But it just happens that every now and then, purposefully or accidentally, those people making the decisions actually have good, legitimate reasons to make the decision they made. We don’t know whether this one was one of those cases.
Personally, I prefer to reserve judgment until I know what the heck this all was really about. Otherwise, if it turns out that the reason for the mod’s removal was legit, I’d feel like I’ve made a fool of myself by joining a crusade for a cause I wouldn’t have supported if I had known the truth.
Yeah, and they also said this was not the reason for the ban, so posting partial quotes out of context serves only to spread misinformation.
Which is their right to do. The dispute is between the mod author and Funcom, not between mod users and Funcom. The mod users are just collateral damage until the situation is resolved.
For me are funny the RP zealots that assert that a REAL RPer doesn’t needs mods (not You ofc i am speaking about others). YES a real RP goes playing tabbletop games… This is a VIDEO game where You can increase your game experience with RP. That gives You the way to create tales, to share experiences with other VIDEO GAMERS that became tired of playing the game just only as mechanic progress of missions. My daughter plays (played, now she has two sons to care about) in text RP servers , they do their own server don’t need a VIDEO game. YES they are true RPers… I am a VIDEO GAMER that likes an RP side of it, so i need also COSMETICS. Otherwise i would go to play in those text RP servers.
@Taemien How do you define a ‘real’ RPer?
oh it will be usable, just not as convenient to update or spread
Its not a tantrum to say ill quit if tot doesnt get reinstated. And it doesnt make my literal thousands of hours roleplaying or time spent admining a conan roleplay server that regularly sat in the #1 spot for longer than most in battle metrics not real either.
Its just a fact. I haven’t played conan for the psst week because im upset with the companys decision making process. Im sick of the corrupt bias they regularly show over the years to mods that devs are friends with and mods those people dont like.
Im sick of the community being the ones to constantly suffer for funcoms mismanagement of thier game at an almost abusive level between them fricking up every age update. Completely throwing away years of combat balance and general incompetence about thier game.
Tots ban is just the straw that broke the camels back. And if they stick to that choice then im happy sticking to mine.
doesnt really matter to me, as i havent been able to play on my server since this happened, so its affecting me right now so i complain right now
I’m happy for you that you’re happy playing on unmodded RP servers; Most of us aren’t. Please don’t try to invalidate our experience and preferences. It’s also quite toxic to imply we’re not “real RPers” because we don’t want to RP on the base game with it’s utter lack of QoL, character customization, or content. I’ve been RPing for 24 years. I’m as real of an RPer as there is, and that’s a simple fact.
The only benefit this game has for me over the other game I was RPing on is the extremely vivid character customization - Something there aren’t other decent options for on the workshop other than Tot Custom, and something the base game fails to provide entirely. And no, I don’t care about the base game. Conan Exiles is something I play exclusively for the purpose of RP, and the only reason I’ve continued playing it after my first couple of seasons is because of how much Tot Custom expands character design. Without it, swapping to a game that is mechanically better in every capacity simply makes sense.
It’s not a threat, nor a tantrum to state that I won’t continue RPing on Conan without it. It’s a simple fact. One that the company should understand, because the presence or absence of the larger RP community directly has an effect on their income. They should consider us telling them “You will make significantly less money if this happens because we will leave” an undeserved kindness. The people buying all those deco pieces in the bazaar and making them tens, possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars from it probably aren’t their official pvpers, after all.
As someone who joined the game for the RP community and with ample comparison between the old mess of mods before ToT, and then life with ToT… I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that if ToT remains banned, I will be quitting the game.
We’re talking about a mod that is EXTREMELY popular among the roleplaying community, and on a relatively educated guess, the bulk of the game’s revenue comes from roleplayers - I don’t see how PvE/PvP players would be willing to buy coins for a stack of placeable towels or a bowl of flowers.
Many roleplaying servers are already struggling now that ToT Custom is made unavailable, and will continue to struggle or even shut down, while those that remain if ToT remains banned will see a major loss of players due to having to return to old, infinitely less polished mods. Absolutely nobody is happy right now.
ToT Custom is the lifeblood of the roleplaying community. Whatever decision behind this ban, I would love to see reversed. Work with the mod developer instead to ensure the mod meets Funcom’s guidelines. The damage to the community is disheartening and absolutely not worth whatever integrity was gained.