In reflection, PDX is attempting to address the primary concern, to make the game more "challenging" (i.e. fun). I'm just disappointed that pretty much everything they have described has already been available via mods. Its a fine line they have to consider though - they want their Vanilla game to one day be great, to stand on its own. Perhaps a decent to large amount of the community doesn't even bother with mods. I'm not sure PDX wants to start necessitating the need for mods, or having to endorse certain mods for this game title. Considering this project's resource constraints, maybe they should?
I personally use mods, and understand (as many of these forums do) that with mods, it will ALWAYS be better than Vanilla. Therefore I want them to address issues that CANNOT be modded, or spend time adding more items that can be modded. But that's me, and not a reflection of PDX's entire subscriber base - remember, its not a charity, in the end their #1 accountability is the balance sheet, else they can't even 'support' the product.
Where customer satisfaction is on the list, who knows, I would hope and assume its #2, and #2 certainly rolls into the results of the #1 objective - unfortunately, customers rarely concern themselves with their vendor's #1 objective, however they shouldn't have to. A good plan will have #1 and #2 take care of themselves.
