Well, there if you could mod then you could just add missing factions and then they can't sell the skin change for 15 dollar, and it ensure that they have to compete with their old products since their lifetime can be infinite. So it the same old of trying to get a stranglehold but over your own products.
The only thing that I can agree is that supporting modding with tools and guides is a lot of extra work that might not see any direct profit.
They probably did that on purpose because the of the mentality of a lot of game developers is "modding is a form of hacking, cracking, and theft".
Because they are idiots.
Well, there if you could mod then you could just add missing factions and then they can't sell the skin change for 15 dollar, and it ensure that they have to compete with their old products since their lifetime can be infinite. So it the same old of trying to get a stranglehold but over your own products.
The only thing that I can agree is that supporting modding with tools and guides is a lot of extra work that might not see any direct profit.