Howard says Bethesda Game Studios is looking to keep expanding its support for the modding community with the upcoming space-faring RPG.
Howard says Bethesda Game Studios is looking to keep expanding its support for the modding community with the upcoming space-faring RPG.
What they really want: a sanitized official mod store that dominates over the Nexus and Loverslab. I’m not sure how they’re going to pull that off, but I fully expect them to try.
Classic Todd bs on the level of “it just works”
tell me lies tell me sweet little lies
In theory, modders asking to be compensated for their work is not that outlandish of an idea, however in practice there are a ton of problems that need to be solved when going down this rabbit hole:
All of these proved to be major issues when they tried a paid mod store for Skyrim. Stolen mods, a fishing mod that required an animation framework mod who’s creater demanded the fishing mod be taken down, mods that had major incompatibilities with other popular mods, and bought mods just inserting themselves wherever they felt like in the load order.
If Bethesda wanted to create an official mod store, it would need to be carefully curated, with contracts with the modders requiring them to keep their mods updated, and seriously upgraded tools for configuring purchased mods. Honestly, I just don’t quite see it happening.
also users cant exactly build huge mod lists if many mods are paid
They’re definitely planning on making a mod store.
Already have. Fallout 4’s mod store has so much mod “dlc” microtransactions on it that when you add it all up, it’s several times the cost of the base game and all of its dlc combined.
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Modders should be compensated. I’m not too convinced Microsoft’s cut won’t be too big to make the whole thing worth charging for. It’s a big ask to sell mods since that’s not the norm. Patreon or something might be more viable way for modders.
They will probably just try to pay modders more for their mods on the official store than what Nexus is paying them, by charging users a microtransaction to download each mod. Modders probably will make so much more money for their mods, that they won’t want to upload to Nexus or anywhere else. Also, there’s no way that Bethesda is going to allow nsfw mods on their official store, so I guess we’ll see what happens.
I’m hopeful that the approach will be closer to how Minecraft works, now that they’re under the same umbrella. But it seems more likely they’ll just monetize things heavily and push creators to monetize. (e.g., mods over a certain size require a minimum payment amount to ‘recoup bandwidth costs’)
As if they’d allow any of the dirty adult content that you’d find on LL. They would also just look for more ways to monetize mod content.