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WTF??????!!!!!!!!
Is that the best response that can be elicited from you? Seriously, it displays an acute lack of grey cells between the ears if that is the best that you can do. Here is a guy at odds with himself, a personal quandary with his desire to enjoy the game without offending himself and to a lesser degree perhaps, his choice of God.
Unequivocally, and without reservation, I will state for you that once you obtain your legal copies of GP4, have no qualms about modding it. The situation with the majority of games is that it is a given that they will be updated by user content. Game developers are now well aware of this fact.
You will no doubt have heard of the many games, Rfactor for one, which for the most part is reliant on the user content.
Keep in mind that the developers of GP4 no longer exist as such, the companies having been wound up and assimilated into other companies as entirely different entities. Considering that fact, how can the 'agreement' between the company and the user have any legal relevance? Be assured it cannot. Not one person in the history of GP4, and I add many other games, has been taken to task for modifying a developers content. The reason for this is blatantly obvious if you consider it carefully. Were the game to remain as is, in it's vanilla state, and there were no free modifications available, would sales still occur? Would this site be here for you to post your personally vexing question? I think the answer to both of those questions is obvious.
In truth, game developers welcome the input and the after market creations of its users, as it breathes new life into their products, and keeps the communities active. It creates an ongoing market for future versions, and it makes the developers sit up and take notice of the desires of the consumers for future versions.
Jobs have been won with gaming manufacturers, by users who have created 'after market' work for gaming products. Therefore one can assume that the development of the after market modifications to the product was a 'win win' situation all round, not only for the game developer, but for all the users of the product as well.
Geoff Crammond has resigned himself to the fact that users of his creation have changed it irrevocably, he knows that they have worked hard to drag it, sometimes metaphorically 'kicking and screaming' into our future, the future that this community, and others around the world see for F1 gaming. We have our own GP4 legends now, members of this very site, and we are proud of their achievements, just as we are proud of Geoff's achievement. If we were not, we would not be here would we?
Geoff Crammond will make no more F1 simulators, that is a well known fact, so, in truth, you and I, and the rest of this community, keep GP4 alive today.
So, in summing up, I will say again, have no qualms or personal fears about using some of the many modifications available for GP4, they were made for you, they were made for the future of the game we all love and enjoy so much. Although, for the most part, my argument could be seen as altruistic, and perhaps fails to resolve your personal dilemma. Ultimately, the final choice is yours, as is everything. It's all about choices. I sincerely hope that I have offered you a reasonable explanation and point of view that is relevant to this site and today's modern world.
Peace.
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