Now see what moding does for a game and company!

[EJGr.Ost_Caspar]

Official 1C map tools were given away to chosen 3rd party individuals to produce more maps long before the game was hacked - so 3rd party maps have quite a tradition meanwhile.
There is no problem for us to still accept 3rd party maps - but the main problem with many of them is the use of non-stock objects (and the ammount of reworking it to use stock objects would be too much for us).
And additionally... those non-stock objects are in 99% of cases in a bad shape (no LoDs, Collisions, Shadow etc.), that we could not implement them without finalisation, even if we would get the source 3DSmax models from the modders, which seems to be impossible to most of them as well (because they do it in Blender or Maya or Notepad or whatever).
New, unique textures - no problem at all. Quality and look maybe (Google Earth shows not the world of WW2!), but thats probably fixable.

We still have a few 3rd party maps in line. Time will come.