[EamonnMR]

There are other reasons for the dearth of mods nowdays. The PC is no longer such a dominant platform so many people who might be persuaded to try modding are playing on a device unsuited to it like a game console or phone, a pure consumption device. Another issue is production value-as games get better the bar gets raised higher and higher for content. Compare the effort required to make a SC1 map to making an SCII map, it's night and day. Finally, modding is no longer the only way to scratch the itch of game making-starting with Flash and followed Unity, Unreal and now Godot we have an embarrassment of platforms for making your own game that you will own. This scratches the same itch for people.