Open up the locked sound file folder to what it has been for 20 years

[Bob1]

Please open the sound file folder again to what it was before. Sound modding is near impossible now. I have spent a lot of money on your products and expect to have ownership of what I buy. You have effectively stopped an important area to modding. Simply a text file with file location reference is a poor replacement for the joy of soundmodding we used to have.

[drPhibes]

13 minutes ago, Bob1 said:

I have spent a lot of money on your products and expect to have ownership of what I buy.

 

You should probably read §2 in the ED EULA. TL;DR: you have purchased a license to use a piece of software. You do not own the software.

[Rudel_chw]

27 minutes ago, Bob1 said:

.. You have effectively stopped an important area to modding. 

 

Not so, you can still create sound mods ... what you can't do is simply edit sound samples created by ED, you need to provide your own samples.

[Mars Exulte]

6 hours ago, Bob1 said:

Please open the sound file folder again to what it was before. Sound modding is near impossible now. I have spent a lot of money on your products and expect to have ownership of what I buy. You have effectively stopped an important area to modding. Simply a text file with file location reference is a poor replacement for the joy of soundmodding we used to have.

As pointed out by others you do not ''own'' anything. The EULA you click through everytime you install game without reading? End User LICENSE Agreement? That's what you purchase, a software LICENSE.

 

All the coding, assets, etc are ED's property. They can do whatever they want with it, including summarily uninstalling it from your system and locking you out of parts of it. It doesn't belong to you.

 

That said, as also pointed out above, it can indeed still be modded, just has to be done a different way.