Why was Mod.io chosen over steam workshop?

[Salad Fries]

I greatly appreciate the ability to share and download custom houses & applaud the devs for providing such functionality with HF2. With that said, I've been finding the mod.io experience to be extremely frustrating.

With mod.io it seems that you have to manually download the files (which involves ignoring the giant "subscribe" button and instead navigating to the non-intuitively located "download files manually" location), then manually import said download into the game. I found this multi-step process to be extremely clunky and cumbersome. There also doesn't seem to be a lot of instruction anywhere on the store/community/mod.io pages on how to actually get downloads to work, leading to a frustrating evening of trying to figure it out.

HF1 used steam workshop, The process of downloading was just a simple click of the button.. Thats it! everything was done automatically.

I guess my question is why did the devs choose to utilize mod.io when it is so much less user friendly and what steps can be done to streamline the process?

Also, i know its super minor (gonna go all "old man yelling at clouds" here) but uploading content to mod.io as well as commenting/etc requires the need to create an account on this 3rd party website & another account needs to be created to participate on the canny.io website. I'm sick of needing to create account after pointless account for everything. Why not utilize a unified system that requires just 1 account? The current configuration is just so incredibly clunky.

[Mortimer]

Fully agree with this. Hate having to create accounts for everything everywhere. Steam workshop should have been the way to go.

[Neptune]

Agreed , I find MOD.io really frustrating with them nagging you to log on/ register/ make an account (logging on through a google account ? No Way.)
Besides I can not go to mod.io ingame anyway.
No idea why they did not stick to the steam workshop.
I hope they will add it again. Maybe just have both ?

[Mortimer]

They should at least add the workshop for creating custom furniture and items like HF1. I find that to be the feature I miss the most. After looking through mod.io, it seems it only contains custom player jobs/houses which is not something I'm too interested in.

[DrHouseDK]

MOD.io could really use some moderation. A lot of houses are mislabled with "Custom Job".

[Braveheart]

Originally posted by Mortimer:

They should at least add the workshop for creating custom furniture and items like HF1. I find that to be the feature I miss the most. After looking through mod.io, it seems it only contains custom player jobs/houses which is not something I'm too interested in.

The reason for mod.io over the Steam Workshop is for cross-platform access (both PC and console).

Originally posted by DrHouseDK:

MOD.io could really use some moderation. A lot of houses are mislabled with "Custom Job".

Players can make their own jobs in the Sandbox mode and post them on mod.io so not likely mislabelled.

[Chaos]

using mod.io instead of steam workshop is going from simple and smooth to complicated and frustrating .... not a good move ..nope ... bad bad bad

[HKMark]

Agree. I looged in to mod.io using my Steam account and they still required my email address. I refused to give it to them.

[galacticcorgi]

You guys would never survive Fallout and Skyrim modding.

[99.9% OF GERMS]

Originally posted by galacticcorgi:

You guys would never survive Fallout and Skyrim modding.

Easy Pete disagrees.
It doesn't change that it's still annoying on both ends.

[Miss Tery]

I can't use mod.io, this thing wants me to log in every where... PC, phone ?? Don't understand this at all.
I don't know why, it works very well with Anno 1800. Don't have to do anything outside of the game.
About Fallout and Skyrim (and others great games), I am on Nexus so...

[Kiki ❤]

Hey, regarding your question about why we chose mod.io: We decided on mod.io because it's a cool platform that is constantly evolving and, most importantly, it's cross-platform. This means both PC and console users can share things

If you have problems connecting to mod.io or loading mods in the game, please make sure that you have mods enabled in the game settings and that downloaded houses are unpacked in the right place.

You can always report the problem to us here - Support Contact [houseflipper.zendesk.com]

Originally posted by DrHouseDK:

MOD.io could really use some moderation. A lot of houses are mislabled with "Custom Job".

If you see such mods, you have the option to write a comment for the author to make him to change the tag or to report the house to us on mod.io.
Thanks to reports we can check if the author of the mod selected the correct tags and optionally we can change them

[Exitoz]

Originally posted by Kiki ❤:

Hey, regarding your question about why we chose mod.io: We decided on mod.io because it's a cool platform that is constantly evolving and, most importantly, it's cross-platform. This means both PC and console users can share things :bessie_uwu:

If you have problems connecting to mod.io or loading mods in the game, please make sure that you have mods enabled in the game settings and that downloaded houses are unpacked in the right place.

You can always report the problem to us here - Support Contact [houseflipper.zendesk.com]

Originally posted by DrHouseDK:

MOD.io could really use some moderation. A lot of houses are mislabled with "Custom Job".

If you see such mods, you have the option to write a comment for the author to make him to change the tag or to report the house to us on mod.io.
Thanks to reports we can check if the author of the mod selected the correct tags and optionally we can change them :bessie_happy:

Including console players is always great but why not have steam workshop too for the PC community?

[Kathykins]

Originally posted by Exitoz:

Including console players is always great but why not have steam workshop too for the PC community?

Why? They haven't even opened up for players to create furniture/deco yet. And again, that would shut players on other platforms out of the custom content posted on the Workshop. Which is why they went with mod.io in the first place.