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[ShaiKhulud1989]

Something tells me that people wouldn’t be so harsh if Starfield wasn’t so freaking barebones and light on content on release. In this context Bethesda asking for more money for a simple quest line is looking simply tone-deaf. Especially since games like Cyberpunk, No Man’s Sky and Baldur’s Gate 3 are all offering ridiculous amounts of content for free even before mods.

I don’t get why Bethesda is trying to extinguish fire with gasoline but it’s their right, I guess.

 

[DragoonWalker]

Paid or unpaid I have lost all interest in this game.

I'm just going to give it time. The free mods are coming and the quality will shoot up as people become comfortable with the tools.

I don't know. The problem with the game seems to be fundamental to how it's designed. Everything is through a loading screening. The randomization of planets just sucks. Not sure how you can get around that. I know in Skyrim has a mod where people put the city into the overworld cell to rid the loading screen but it made the game unstable, and the scale of this is way bigger.

 

[March Climber]

Don't worry guys, they'll all be free in the anniversary edition, when it releases 2033.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Fanbase shouldn't complain, they're getting the game "for free." Or something.

 

[lefty1117]

Probably would be a different feel if the trackers quest was 50 credits or 100 credits max. The pricing is all wrong.

 

[ReBurn]

I had a hearty chuckle at the price of some of those mods. Also the paid quests.

 

[ByWatterson]

When Everybody Pays, We All Win

 

[adamsapple]

Don't pay them for it, wait a few days and you'll get quests similar or better for free from users now that the CC tools are out.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Can you just use the free mods instead? I don’t understand this.

 

[adamsapple]

Can you just use the free mods instead? I don’t understand this.

You can. But this is still a bad practice, they tried this once before and got a lot of shit for it. Probably gonna be the same this time.

 

[Trogdor1123]

You can. But this is still a bad practice, they tried this once before and got a lot of shit for it. Probably gonna be the same this time.

No I 100% agree. I’m just wondering why anyone would even consider it.

 

[JayK47]

Looks like I have 1100 Bethesda bucks. Loading up Creations, I can see some paid content and some free content, such as community patch. Pretty sure, like past Creations, it in no way prevents you from getting mods elsewhere. It is a way for people who are too lazy or dumb to get mods for free or paying for it. Of all the things wrong with Bethesda games, I am not sure why this is one of them. If they added Creations to the past 2 games, you had to see it coming for Starfield.

 

[nemiroff]

Wat.. So despite the previous outcome they actually went with this again.. holy shit, that's funny and concerning at the same time. So who's the "mastermind" behind this decision then..

 

[Sgt.Asher]

Shitty boring game continues to be shitty. No amount of mods is going to fix it.

 

[TransTrender]

They stilll have free user mods, right?
Same as before with the other two titles in the op.
No need to pay for lesser quality stuff when the free stuff is still better.

 

[consoul]

What's the split for verified creators?
I know they get 'royalties', but what percentage of the cost does Bethesda keep when you buy a mod?

I tried looking it up, but it looks like Bethesda have NDA'd it in the verified creator program.

If the mod creators are getting a good deal and not just being exploited, then I'm OK with this.

 

[Beechos]

So the creators of the mods don't set the prices and bethesda take a cut of each purchase?

 

[AJUMP23]

Do the creators set the price?

 

[Unknown Soldier]

MS is just trying to make back some of the $7 billion they paid for Zenimax, give Phil a break

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

Do the creators set the price?

no, they get paid a one time flat rate.

 

[cheststrongwell]

Remaster/remake Oblivion for modern consoles you cowards!

 

[Jibran#one]

There is a Starfield fandom?

There will be when it's released on playstation

 

[AJUMP23]

no, they get paid a one time flat rate.

i think this is overp but I won’t buy it.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

What a way to kill a game. Bravo, Microsoft. Fucking dipshits.

 

[existensmaximum]

What, pay for mods? That's the dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.

 

[MrTroubleMaker]

i think this is overp but I won’t buy it.

their paid mods have always been over priced, but this time its even higher. i didn't buy their mods then and wont buy them ever.

 

[ZehDon]

Paid mods are, and will always be, bad form in my opinion. Offer mods up or don't and let people donate to their favourite modders. Bethesda acting as a middle man just feels scummy, to me.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

The free mods are always better.

I assume the people who buy these mods are the same who buy loads of Fortnite skins and Madden packs and GT7 currency.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

$10 for a single quest is truly something modern bethesda would do

Not to mention said quest was done by them, not by fans. Even for $10 they still did a shit job.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

"wait until the mods to fix the game!"

Now pay for those mods to fix the game.

 

[iHaunter]

Bethesda really is such a piece of shit company. I can't stand that worm todd.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Skyrim was famous because of mods, and was community based, so was free. Charging for it is bullshit

Community stuff is still free.

 

[StereoVsn]

Stupid fucks. They are trying to nickel and dime whatever user base they still have left. And they will keep making pikachu face when their player numbers keep dropping.

It’s a small company after all. How could poor Phil, Sarah and their band of bandits keep surviving otherwise. Wait, GamePass! No idea how it’s possibly related but clearly that has to be the answer. /s

 

[FoxMcChief]

So this thread is full of people that don’t know what they’re talking about. Makes sense.

 

[Maddoxswe]

So this thread is full of people that don’t know what they’re talking about. Makes sense.

Please enlight the people not knowing what they talk about then genius

 

[ryzen1]

My god Bethesda. They tried it before. Failed super hard. Now they do it again..
This studio went from top tier to absolute trash.

 

[Comandr]

thought this game died, lets move on to ES6. Bethesda, let it die man

No. I want Bethesda to keep fucking up this game so that people can keep telling them this shit is stupid and they won't tolerate it. That way, Talos willing, Skyrim 2 will be largely spared from it.

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

‘Sic ‘em Steam community!!!

 

[NeoLed]

If the free mod still available, I can't agree with the review bombing. The creator/modder want to get paid for their works. People should respect that. If you don't feel the price is right, no need to buy it or just find the free version. Sometime I think the mod users just see modders as their free workers

Base game/vanilla bugs is another discussion.

 

[GHG]

So this thread is full of people that don’t know what they’re talking about. Makes sense.

In all honesty, it's starting to feel like you don't know what you're defending.

 

[CrustyBritches]

It's fucked up to sell an official Bethesda made mission as a mod.

 

[daxgame]

So this is going to be a thing now huh...

Just review bomb anything and everything that upsets you

Hopefully, yes. And if it concerns a great deal of people it forces changes for the better

 

[Klayzer]

In all honesty, it's starting to feel like you don't know what you're defending.

It's almost like a autoreply defense to anything/anyone critical of Microsoft or Xbox.

 

[Fess]

So this thread is full of people that don’t know what they’re talking about. Makes sense.

Don’t even begin to defend this. There is nothing good coming from that.

Use the free mods, ignore the rest.

If we’re lucky this will be a short-lived thing with only trace of it’s existence being some Wikipedia history post.

At this point, with creation kit out, things could improve. I’m hoping we’ll get some Skyrim-level high quality mods now that creation kit is out and some barriers are gone.
Hoping for some good face and body morph mods, the population in the current universe is so boring from an eye-candy perspective that it could trigger a depression. There are a few ”Shapely” mods on Nexus that adds thicker and slim variations but they’re limited to specific clothes. The whole populations needs an overhaul.

 

[RickSanchez]

So this is going to be a thing now huh...

Just review bomb anything and everything that upsets you

How else do we send a message to these mega corporations ? You think they're bothered about a few threads on reddit, twitter or GAF ? Also there's a right and wrong way to do review bombing. Leaving a negative review on the offending game with details on what you dont like and why its a bad practice is fine by me. Review bombing Bethesda's other titles is wrong, because that simply hurts a different game which is not part of the controversy.

 

[RickSanchez]

So this thread is full of people that don’t know what they’re talking about. Makes sense.

Please educate us then; o wise, enlightened one. What do we not know ?

 

[gaming_again]

Starfield and its fans deserve each other, judging from the replies sticking up for this move in this thread.

 

[Zathalus]

Isn't this the same thing you find with Fallout 4 and Skyrim already? Both of those have some paid mods from Bethesda and a handful of creators, with the rest being regular free mods. Is Starfield doing anything different with how it handles the creation club?

 

[Dazraell]

Isn't this the same thing you find with Fallout 4 and Skyrim already? Both of those have some paid mods from Bethesda and a handful of creators, with the rest being regular free mods. Is Starfield doing anything different with how it handles the creation club?

From the look of it, this gives very similar vibes to creations from Skyrim and Fallout 4 and them being overpriced mods with very little of value

 

[RickSanchez]

Isn't this the same thing you find with Fallout 4 and Skyrim already? Both of those have some paid mods from Bethesda and a handful of creators, with the rest being regular free mods. Is Starfield doing anything different with how it handles the creation club?

Yes, it is the same thing they did in Skyrim and Fallout.

No, that doesn't mean we should let our objections go unheard. If anything, it is even more important to call out such bad practices now, because Bethesda thinks they will get away with it.