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Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam (kotaku.com)

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[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.today -41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.ca 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Fuck Todd for wanting to profit off of them.

[+] tal@lemmy.today -29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.xyz 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] tal@lemmy.today -3 points 1 year ago

That's just saying "I don't want paid mods to exist if I don't want to buy them myself".

[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year 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.ml 11 points 1 year 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.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i hate that they are calling bad reviews 'review bombing' now

way to make it look like any dissatisfaction is just fake

[–] Templa@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Bethesda never put this idea away, is so funny

[–] Atin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year 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.