A mod approval thought for 4.09 for the 1C team

[csThor]

To return to the thread's initial question ...

It is irrelevant whether you are enthusiastic about the stuff they do at AAA or not (I'm not) it should be blatantly obvious that any kind of "official sanctioning" is completely out of question.

Place yourself in Oleg's shoes - You and your company created a commercially successful piece of software (any kind of software and not just games) and then some goons hack the file protection. Someone else is using the tools these goons made for unsanctioned modifications. Wouldn't you get a fit of laughter when they ask for official sanctioning "'cause we can do what you couldn't"? Folks get real - please!
It's one thing that neither Maddox Games nor 1C or Ubi have taken steps to "deal with the issue" but assuming some kind of silent support is stretching the boundaries of the term "wishful thinking". Speaking purely hypothetically - Who would Maddox Games cooperate with? There is no "central authority" who controls what is going on mod-wise and according to what I read at AAA (yes I do lurk there) they do not have the slightest inclination to get some order into the stuff made (for the IMO unconvincing reason of "diversity") and produce "sensible packages". The only time when a developer/publisher ever really cooperated with a group of modders was when the BDG fiddled with Rowan's BoB. And that was because development was limited to a small group consisting of humble folks who knew their stuff.