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Paid mods are back - Bethesda's "Creation Club" for Fallout 4 and Skyrim

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Drog Black Tooth

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Always knew I should have become a Skyrim Modder.

Look how many opportunities Bethesda is consistently creating for a potential me to have earned good profit from.
Yeah right.

Remember those early days of the first person shooter genre? Like when people could actually get real jobs for making a map pack for Quake?

Oh I 'member.
 

ilitarist

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There are no real money in mods that don't include nudity, child murder and Batman armor. If Bethesda doesn't deliver on those things I don't see much point. Perhaps they turned off achievements for modded Skyrim SE to make those official mods more appealing.

Also this is mobile gaming-level ripoff. Bethesda, if you still like to work on Skyrim go on and make another expansion pack, it's not like you wouldn't get millions of sold copies from some expansions about Expedition into a new Dwarven City or Morang Tong Skyrim Office or Blacksmith Who Forges Legendary Armor for Horses or Adventure in a Random Plane of Oblivion. Honestly I don't understand why Bethesda didn't make expansions for Skyrim for the last 5 years, the game is still very popular and as Fallout New Vegas shows you can add tight developed storylines in DLCs even when the base game has problems and player character is already a demigod.
 

Lahey

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Grab the Codex by the pussy
Like/Dislike ratio is up to 1218/15678.

Top comment with 996 likes:
Infinity Ward: "Our trailer is the most disliked gaming trailer in Youtube's history"
Bethesda : "Hold my beer"
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Vorark

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There were paid mods for the Sims and shit, like, 15 years ago. The entire idea about paying for user-generated content generated a lot of drama back then, with some sites dedicated to pirating the paid mods for ideological reasons, the paymod-sellers trying to get those sites sued (I think), etc.

Ha, I remember it. I think they even managed to get EA involved, considering paid mods were against the EULA or something. TS2 community was pure drama (and lulz) back then.
 
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These people will basically be bethesda employees, creating mods for games to extend longevity. They have to work with bethesda in order to publish anything, so it's not willy nilly here's my shit 'buy it'.
 

Geckabor

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Thankfully, Bethesda managed to become irrelevant in the landscape of actual RPGs before announcing this, so no harm is really done.
 

Sentinel

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Well this spells the end for Bethesda games modding.

RIP TES6. Skyrim was bad enough vanilla, but no way I'm ever touching TES6 if I have to pay for mods.

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Honestly I don't understand why Bethesda didn't make expansions for Skyrim for the last 5 years, the game is still very popular and as Fallout New Vegas shows you can add tight developed storylines in DLCs even when the base game has problems and player character is already a demigod.

This is one of life's mysteries. Another other big publisher would have milked the shit out of these games. Tons of money left on the table.
 

vonAchdorf

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Probably wouldn't have worked on last gen - how long did it take them to get the expansions to run on the PS3? For a while it even looked like the PS3 wouldn't get them at all because of performance problems.
 

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While quality assurance is definitely required, I see a problem here: now they can deliberately give us vanilla games with only mediocre artwork (imagine Elder Scrolls 6 with Skyrim graphics) and say modders can do the rest (i.e. high end trees and foliage). They win. Some modders win. Customers pay for every "enhancement" which should have been there in the first place.
I hope this happens just as a big "fuck you" to everyone who supports this.
 

Executr

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Firstly, I'll go forward to say that I'm against this model. But I'm genuinely curious of the Codex opinion about the Mount&Blade Warband total conversions that are paid (DLC) like the Napoleonic Wars and Viking Conquest. They're made by modders. Well, I guess the keyword here is total conversion and not a simple armor or weapon but still...
 
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RNGsus

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How this thing will impact loverslab?
Well, what's for damn sure, paid mods won't include porno, so they're safe for the time being. BGS don't even allow links to bikini babes, they won't sponsor Dungeons and Dongs.
Firstly, I'll go forward to say that I'm against this model. But I'm genuinely curious of the Codex opinion about the Mount&Blade Warband total conversions that are paid (DLC) like the Napoleonic Wars and Viking Conquest. They're made by modders. Well, I guess the keyword here is total conversion and not a simple armor or weapon but still...
I'm ok with it. What's it gonna hurt? If 12 year olds and grown, childless men want to go into business with BGS, working for peanuts, be my fucking guest. You've earned it.
 
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buru5

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While quality assurance is definitely required, I see a problem here: now they can deliberately give us vanilla games with only mediocre artwork (imagine Elder Scrolls 6 with Skyrim graphics) and say modders can do the rest (i.e. high end trees and foliage). They win. Some modders win. Customers pay for every "enhancement" which should have been there in the first place.
I hope this happens just as a big "fuck you" to everyone who supports this.

They were already doing this basically, now it just won't be free.
 

oldmanpaco

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Last Bethesda crap I bought was Morrowind and that was from a bargain bin. This shit will not affect me one bit. I download and try Bethesda games just so I can bash them better, don't care for mods and shit anyways.

The problem is that if Bethesda figures out a way to successfully monetize mods other developers will follow suit. I have no problem with modders wanting to get paid and there is no moral objection to people trying to monetize their skill/time but it doesn't mean anything good for the community at large.
 

ArchAngel

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Last Bethesda crap I bought was Morrowind and that was from a bargain bin. This shit will not affect me one bit. I download and try Bethesda games just so I can bash them better, don't care for mods and shit anyways.

The problem is that if Bethesda figures out a way to successfully monetize mods other developers will follow suit. I have no problem with modders wanting to get paid and there is no moral objection to people trying to monetize their skill/time but it doesn't mean anything good for the community at large.
Then I will pirate that shit as well and bash it and play indie games only.. I am almost playing indie games only already :D
 
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RNGsus

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Thousands of bethtards screamed in agony as their gamebryo waifus were being taken away and sold for pennies like a cheap whores they are.
:outrage:

I've got no sympathy for the plebes that still cared enough to get mad about this. Who didn't see the decline coming in 05? Mods can't fix a game, when the source code's shit.
 

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DRM-ridden horse hats for everyone!
 

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