Modders will get paid by Bethesda, Bethesda will get paid by continuing sales of its moddable games, and players will enjoy more free mods. Just don't charge players to use the Club's mods. This makes a solution that works for everyone obvious: Bethesda should hire modders for its Creation Club, pay them, and curate their mods. Google 'Doom mods' and you'll get pages of mods (plus stories and videos about those mods) for the original Doom, not the new Doom. The original Doom, from 1993 is still being modded, and those mods are still being written about and shared regularly.

No one is really writing or talking about Doom these days (I know I'm not), and that's certainly in part because Doom can only be 'modded' with SnapMap, its official in-game editor.

People still talk about Fallout 4 and Skyrim regularly because there are cool and free mods coming out for it all the time (I personally post stories about those mods on a near-weekly basis).Ģ016's Doom, meanwhile, is at the bottom of page 4 on the top sellers list. Fallout 4 and Skyrim are still selling: Skyrim Special Edition is at the bottom of page 1 of Steam's top sellers list, Fallout 4 is at the top of page 2. Here's a completely unscientific example. Bethesda says it will be vetting each mod through an application and approval process, which will (we hope) mean no one can just sneak in with something they didn't entirely make themselves. Been using free mods? You can keep using them, and if Bethesda keeps its word, you won't see a monetized version of an existing mod with new features show up for sale.Ĭreation Club is also a curated system, unlike the Wild West of Steam's disastrous attempt, which was a chaotic come-one come-all invitation that led to people uploading and attempting to sell previously free mods, or mods that weren't theirs, or mods that used code or assets from other mods without permission. It won't monetize any existing mods-everything in the Club will be something new, Bethesda says. Bethesda is hiring modders to create new content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim Special Edition, and charging players to use it. Creation Club, which was announced during E3, is an improvement over the 2015 attempt on Steam in almost every respect.

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