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I think they need to focus more on a modding and community scene for their next title for there to be more activity here. As it stands, SOMA did not quite deliver what they had hoped in terms of moddability, so we only got the occasional tech support threads here in the aftermath of its release. Hopefully the next title(s) will improve on that, because the community sorely needs some love after our daddies have left us

I agree greatly. I love the direction Bethesda took with Fallout 4 and the remaster of Skyrim for current gen consoles. There's an option on the title screen for mods. They encourage you to use mods so much that they created an option for it! They've even started hiring modders for their "creation club" add-ons (which is personally not that great, but that's beside the point). I hope to see more devs take a route similar to this.

Another such example is The Binding of Isaac Rebirth: Afterbirth+. The dev always dreamed that one day the community would be the core of creation for the future of the game, and finally he decided to implement "booster packs" to the game feature all the community favorite mods from the Steam Workshop. New content is fairly regularly added from the community into the game. This encourages more people to create in the hopes that one day their creation will be featured in the base game.

Overall, I think we're heading into a time of synergy between devs and their modding community. The biggest remaining step is for the devs to open up the doors and let everyone in. Once that's accomplished, the gaming community will boom even greater!