From the perspective of Modders

1. No online compulsion, no Steam, Origin or other spy programs.
You can download the game or play with CD. I downloaded it in 5 minutes and now it's on my hard drive and can play it as I want. Installation took few minutes. When people have problems with CD, then they should runterlafen it yet. Could not be better. Customer-friendly, you can not make it!

2. Giants Software is a small company in Switzerland. This is not EA, Blizzard, Ubisoft or other giant manufacturers. For a small company with few people make a big job. You have indeed brought almost every demand of the community in fulfillment. Some here expect miracles. Something does not exist.

3. The game has no bugs. This is not Selbsverständlichkeit nowadays. It works fine even without error.

4. The main problem was the finances for FS 2011. That could not correct the Modder also. No sooner had we played couple of hours, it was so rich that no one knew where to put the money. Thus, it was no real challenge. By 2013 they have the problem solved very well. I could not have done better. There are now just more spending. Animals, vehicles and helpers. Fields that must be purchased. The modders can tune it and everybody can be so create map that there are smaller or larger challenges for the players. Who does not want a challenge, can also unlock the fields. But at least there is for modders so many more options than in the previous version. Better to have it in my opinion, can not fix.

5. graphics is improved. Textures did not succeed but that can change the modders themselves, too. For modders repays a major advance, because you can now use more Poli Gonen at the Mods.

6. AI helper has been improved. You are now better and can be found more easily cope.
7. Physics significantly improved. When the equipment they are filling up serious. It makes the game much more realistic.
8. Giants has his editor with release of the game on your website available for download for free, the modder can already begin to create their mods.

Edit:
After a long season and I have to edit the Modversuche review.
I also have 2 star deducted.
This LS2013 tolerate no more new textures. I have a DDS file, the original is changed only by the color. Already he bleats with performance limitations. You can hardly recreate even without Logfehler the old maps. If no update comes, then I see black for modders.

One thing I must still write to the policy of Giants.
I actually expected of Giants, that the animations are significantly improved than its predecessor. As well as agricultural Simulator.
That the tractors are dirty, super animated fieldwork, rain, weather effects much more realistic.
Also the performance of the games is not much better than in LS2011. I guess the same engine.
In 2 years we would have expected something new.

One sees a Neongras completely artificial with a lot of contrast. Simply unrealistic. The whole environment looks like. The animations of the animals would have much
have been better.

Instead backbone of the game to improve, they have reingebaut frills. This is supposed to be a simulation. In the game it's mainly about to edit the fields and to harvest. You have tens of new industries reingebaut that nobody needs.
I can as a single player anyway not plow the same time, producing food, look after the tens of animals, collect bales, grow dozens of different fruits and irrelevant even the newly introduced sorry but chasing stupid missions.

Since the community is your own fault. Each modder had naturally incorporate equal to 20 varieties of fruits in his map, that his map gets more points. The new fruit potatoes and sugar beets see in the game does not look like it. When she grabs in the calves, then only the surface texture is changed afterwards. In the car when they are transported, it does not looks like sugar but cereal with sugar texture.

I had written that there are no bugs.
That's not true. If you do the grass in the feeding areas, the grass surface by itself will disappear over time even if no animals are present. In the case of cows and also for the sheep. As one would let out as in a bathtub, the water again.

Overall, not worth LS 2013 unfortunately. Yet unfinished product, which urgently needs an update.