Around a year after the release of Soul Academy, players still hadn't dared to create mods for the game.

I had no skill in programming—I'd given up after restarting "Day 1" a hundred times—so I didn’t fully grasp what people were saying back then. But I got the gist from forum posts:

“Coding is so god-awful that I can’t even begin to touch it.”

“It’s like a monstrosity with arms for legs, legs for arms, and a torso where the head should be, but somehow, it works. Where do you even start modifying that?”

“What the hell were the developers …