Why have I suddenly got to sign up for two new accounts just to have access to mods?

[Digital Fist]

Sorry, did I miss something? Apparently the game won't run without creating a "CDPROJEKT RED" account, and then seperately a "mod.io" account. Who are these people exactly?

It worked perfectly well before. And to think I've wasted 4 hours setting this up again. Is this just me?

[Frostea]

Why use mod.io anyway? The game has been moddable for years. Official mods are not only limited but probably heavily censored because they’re also on consoles.

You’re better off doing it the old fashioned way and sticking to something like nexus.

[SwampDragon]

Funny. I haven't signed up for any accounts, and I play the game and use mods perfectly fine.

[1singur]

You don't need to sign up to any additional account to play the game, but those additional accounts enable certain quality-of-life features. If you play the game on multiple platforms then at the very least have a GOG account so you can use save transfer between PC and consoles. But this is NOT a requirement to play the game ;)

[Liquid Inc]

Originally posted by Digital Fist:

Sorry, did I miss something? Apparently the game won't run without creating a "CDPROJEKT RED" account, and then seperately a "mod.io" account. Who are these people exactly?

It worked perfectly well before. And to think I've wasted 4 hours setting this up again. Is this just me?

Game *will* 100% work without either of those accounts, it even says it's optional...

You only need to create those accounts when you want to access in-game mods, because they're hosted on the Mod.IO platform. You don't need either of those accounts to run mods from Nexus, or anywhere else.

[dulany67]

Get used to it. Mod.io is the goto platform for game devs who want cross platform modding.