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TESO/ZO aren't being "closed off" and "not supportive" of modding. They are one of the few MMO's that gives us a full UI system, I think that's quite the opposite of closed off. They are understandably busy and want to make sure the source is in a state to release. And in the end, it is their copyrighted material, like it or not.
WildStar's editor is neat, but a couple of things: There was an editor much like that for WoW, written by a guy at Microsoft as a Visual Studio shell integration: No one used it, and thus it was not maintained or extended. WYSIWYG editors are neat, but once most developers have experience building for the system they don't use them anymore. I can work just as fast in a text editor with XML and LUA as I can with a WYSIWYG system. When I do XAML or HTML at work, I don't use a WYSIWYG editor and haven't in probably ten years.
It's still very cool that the WildStar developers are supporting it to that level though.
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