User blog comment:Bovell/DICE: No modding tools for Battlefield 3/@comment-2195984-20110706002720

This has have to be one of the most disgraceful things i have heard from DICE so far, either if its EA money whoring that they want their DLC and expansion to sell without mods doing the same thing or DICE arrogance. Its better idea to have mods then DLC and expansions and you will likely get more money from it even. Look at a company like Blizzard and VALVe. Warcraft 3 continues to be purchased from digital and physical copies, why? Because of mods like Dota or a lot of tower defence and other fantastic mods Diablo 2 also keeps selling because of mods, and just look what Half life mods, team fortress, day of defeat, counter strike and other amazing things have came from it and the first 3 were merged with valve so they get the money from it aswell and thousands of Half life copies were bought because of counter strike, same with Battlefield 1942 and 2 they have some portion that buy it because of mods like project reality example. And mods don´t only make those kind of things they also fix issues in the game like borderlands for PC, most its problem were fixed by PC and its more likely modders will fix it because often developers are too tunnel visioned to realize it. And the "our engine is too complicated" is just underestimating what modders are able to do. Absolutely disgraceful.