Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft meaning Starfield will be on gamepass day 1. Gamepass already heavily restricts how you mod your games with protected folder bullshit at the OS level.
I have a feeling that it'll be really hard to use nexus with Starfield if not entirely impossible as Beth and Msoft will want to kite you through their new mod store where they take a sizeable chunk from mod makers
that would basically end their popularity, and drive them back into the niche they used to be
bethsoft games are only as popular as they are because of how easily moddable they are
but these are tech companies, so 50/50 if they do the thing that will obviously tank them, while doing the surprised pikachu face
Quarterly profits uber alles. The community has been pushing back on Todd's monetization bullshit for literally a generation now and he just keeps going. It's been 12 years since skyrim and i don't remember since fallout iv. How many gamers even remember how vital the mod scene was to making those games playable? I had to go in to the creation kit and create a one-off mod to fix a hard crash that prevented me from completing the main quest since Beth can't be arsed to fix their own games.
Mods have always been Bethesda's saving grace so they don't have to worry about the game being more than half functional at release. Projekt Red would have received a lot less backlash if they had released a creation kit with Cyberpunk so fans could fill in all of the gaping holes.
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paid mods aren't what will fuck them, lacking an enormous array of free mods will
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fair
Just a quick point. If you begin releasing paid mods, then you need an ARMY of IP-controllers, in order to prevent getting into a protracted peoples war with Disney. if you release a product, that people pay money for, and said product is too close to Disney's IP, they will move heaven and earth to ensure that you don't ever see a cent. One of the reasons why people have been able to mod Shrek, or Thomas the Tank engine is because it's way harder to prove that Disney suffered any damage when the IP was used for something that earned no revenue
Wrong. They are part of the pantheon of the maybe three normie games that the average dad buys in a year, along with Rockstar games, CoD and whatever sports or car game is applicable to the console and region, and yes, those dads play on console
Those dads used to be the kids asking their parents to buy games for them. They used to get "it", but now what "it" is changed and now "it" is weird and scary! It'll happen to you!!!
if your dad is in his 30s maybe
and even so, the majority of the sales are to the usual gamer crowd
I'm talking Gen X dads here