The decline of custom stories.

[Adny]

/agree with Traggey

Just because people don't have the necessary time to polish their work to the point where its on the same level as the original game doesn't mean its bad. For Christ's sake, modding is a hobby, it's meant to be fun! Why else would people be doing it? It's not like they're getting paid for it. Personally, I'm doing it for experience with scripting/mapping, which is something I feel I could do as a career later in life; if not, oh well, its pretty fun!

In my humble opinion, there is no amount of "talent" that goes into this, just time, which equates to familiarity with the engine and its resources, generally resulting it more detailed maps and advanced scripting. If I released any of my first projects, people would no doubt caps lock me to death, complaining how its a PDP or troll map because of simply how bad it looked. But, over time, my mapping/scripting skills have increased exponentially.

tl;dr It's a freaking game. You don't have to play it if you don't like it. If you feel so strongly on the subject, create your own 5 star mod.