Thought a different dev did the first one, which I actually enjoyed.

Not really. If you buy the game on gog, you own it.

They abandoned tribes in favor of smite.

Hopefully they try to make it as much like Mod Organizer 2 as they can. Because comparatively, vortex does not compare well. There is a reason no serious mod lists for any Bethesda game uses vortex.

There are lots of good games out there from moral companies. He doesn’t need to play this one.