Mod tier: are game publishers destined to hate modders?

This Week in Games is a weekly column where Vikki Blake pulls apart the biggest stories in gaming each week. This week, she reflects upon the modding community and the industry’s on-going love/hate relationship with it.As neither a modder nor a game publisher myself, I can only peer at their symbiotic relationship and make (let’s face it: laughably uninformed) judgements from afar. To my untutored eye, it’s all faintly reminiscent of the uneasy truce between step-parents and their step-kids. Like: it’s clear that they don’t like each other. They don’t trust each other. And neither wants the other hanging around. But because of that one connection they share – one single link without which their paths may never have ever crossed – they’re stuck with each other.READ MORE: ‘Hard West 2’ developers on making a spooky Western with extra spaghettiWhen the PR machine is engaged, all parties talk of respect and partnership between games and their modding communities. Behind closed doors, thoug...