”Right now we’ve got our work cut out for us to build the product up to the quality level it deserves as a SimCity,” he said.
”It’s worth pointing out that the reason people are still playing SimCity 4 almost ten years later is because the modding community essentially re-created it and filled it with new content.”
Whilst the engine powering the game - GlassBox - is technically capable of supporting modifications, Quigley commented that the team won’t be making that decision until after the game is out, but that they are also not treating that aspect of the community lightly.
”We’re very cognizant of that – we’re not idiots.”
It’s worth noting however that this mainly refers to official mod tools and mod support - modders being modders there will probably still be some limited modding at launch regardless.
