I just want to show here a personal example of how much i loved one vidya to the realisation i dont actually own it at all (at least in the forseeable future). Vidya i am talking about is Battlefield 1.
>My most played game with 2000+ hours
>pic related my custom soldiers mods i never released
>Game i modded the most and know autistically too much about in game files
>Have files of closed alpha and closed beta builds and special mods called Incursions
>Made mock up concepts for serbian faction
Everything was fine as it could be until EA decided to implement their disguting Kernel level anti cheat to Battlefield 1, then realisation hit me hard. Like most modern games Battlefield 1 is heavily tied to service that provides it, that means if there werent private server clients like MARNE (which still require you to own the official copy of the game) Battlefield 1 is in EA`s hands without mercy and it is not your property. MARNE client is right now a completely functional experience that allows Battlefield 1 to still be modded, but it is a dead place (no active servers and NO bots) while official servers are still kicking hard, it just goes to show how good and quality of a game Battlefield 1 is (truly the good last BF game).
Yes i have played BF1942 mod called B1918, but it doesnt hit well enough despite having more factions. I have tried BF3`s Venice Unleashed yesterday and i was pleasantly surprised, fun-bots do keep the game alive and going, not everything is lost, but it is sad how all of these clients have to rely on official copies and stay away from helping archiving by making these work for pirated version of said games.
Frosty Tool Suite is a open source program that is used to make mods for Frostbite games. Original developer that goes by Gman left long time ago to work for EA (all the way back during early stages of Frostys development), after him one of the lead devs that goes by CadeEvs also left like last year or something to work at Epic iirc. Whatever is left of Frosty devs, are the biggest assholes ive ever encountered, they always have excuse of "its open source" everytime someone points out an issue and they always focused more on SW: Battlefront II than any other game. After the inclusion of EA`s Kernel level anti cheat, they have a rule on their server that states:
>Discussing piracy, leaked, or illegal content is not allowed (This includes leaked, decompiled, or modified versions of Frosty, this also includes bypassing anti-cheats, this is a very strict rule)