No demand, no editor...

[bluethief]

Thief 3 Q&A

[fpk]

Q: What type of replay value can be expected out of the game?

A: Well there are a couple of things. First off, the player can choose any of four difficulty levels and these can be set per mission. I expect a lot of people to replay the game with different difficulties. An Expert game is much different than a Normal game.

There is also a faction system. Players can choose to work for or against Pagans or Hammers. They can be allies of both, either or neither. If you do the Hammers enough favors, they will do favors for you, such as attack a guard coming after you. If you kill every Hammer you meet and steal all their stuff, they will attack you on sight. Faction status effects the game in fairly significant ways. So there is definitely repeatability there.

lol they come after me instead

[sesobebo]

IF there is enough demand? I think somebody is beeing eather an ignorant or strangely sarcastic...

[MajorHealy]

I can understand this:

A: If there is enough demand, we will consider the release of an editor in the future. However, this is a time consuming endeavor, and I am not sure we’ll be able to take it on.

Sure, making an editor/SDK for the community is a lot of work --- however, it shouldn't be prohibitively difficult to release the formats/specs so the community can make their own editing tools... I think that would be an acceptable compromise.