Frustration over paid mods continues to be a sore spot among fans (and critics) of Bethesda games
  • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
    48·
    13 days ago

    I was waiting for it. There was zero chance Todd Howard didn’t try this again.

    This is why you don’t buy Bethesda games. Half finished and now they want to profit from modding efforts like a new stream of microtransactions.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      545·
      13 days ago

      I want paid mods. I’ve got no problem with non-paid mods existing too, but I’d like to have the opportunity to pay to accelerate the rate of content creation.

      I’ve got no problem with people who don’t want to buy them, but I think that those people shouldn’t take issue with people who do want them.

      • mihnt@lemmy.caEnglish
        50·
        13 days ago

        So donate to the modders. It’s not a hard concept.

        Fuck Todd for wanting to profit off of them.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          230·
          13 days ago

          Nothing wrong with donating to modders under the current model.

          People who don’t want paid mods can have what they want under the current system just fine. Just don’t buy mods.

          However, not having paid mods means that…people who do want them can’t have paid mods.

          • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            15·
            13 days ago

            No, it means people that want paid mods can just donate, and people that don’t want them aren’t excluded.

            • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
              24·
              12 days ago

              That’s just saying “I don’t want paid mods to exist if I don’t want to buy them myself”.

          • Kaboom@reddthat.comEnglish
            61·
            12 days ago

            Its microtransactions in a single player offline game. Most of which isnt made bgs, but made by others, and bgs just takes a cut.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10·
        12 days ago

        The problem is that Bethesda wants to take a cut. I have no problem paying a modder for their hard work, but Bethesda shouldn’t be getting anything.

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    12 days ago

    i hate that they are calling bad reviews ‘review bombing’ now

    way to make it look like any dissatisfaction is just fake

  • Atin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    13 days ago

    I think the biggest problem was that the TA mod was for only the second quest for basically a new faction.

    There would probably have been less of that sort of reaction if the trackers alliance had a few quests as part of the update and it was added a bit later.