What I don't get is wasn't a big point of Creation Club that a lot of its content was made by mod authors? I know Arthmoor made at least a player home for it.
The minecraft marketplace is only on the microsoft'd version of the game. Instead of actual mod support, they only allow data packs (editing existing things, but no actual custom code, just command block stuff really), maps, skins and textures. Because of the way they made it, the entire thing is flooded with garbage shovelware that only exists to steal money from children. Also because its the shitty microsoft version, its more locked down than Java, meaning there are no custom player skins (only on mobile and PC) and no custom maps or texture packs (again only on mobile and PC). There was a bunch of drama about MULTIPLE popular things on the marketplace being literally just stolen from the java version and sold without the authors permissions. I think the seller percentage is really low as well. Microsoft makes stupid bank off of it, which is probably why they are very slowly trying to kill off the Java version.
I mean considering the amount of garbage mods I see for Skyrim, that might be a good thing in the long run.
Todd somehow has the idea that mod authors create mods to sell, not because it's some one-off from a random idea they had. He always forgets that mods take inspiration from each other, sometimes literally. It's going to be like what Epoch said:
This is all probably true and that annoys me. Bethesda most likely thinks they don't make any money off of mods but they probably sold loads of copies because of them. The problem is there is no clear straight line to draw between their sales and the modding communities contribution to it. Yeah, you won't know if you made exactly $60 million because of mods and you never will.
I don't know. It seems like every time I check out a mod on Nexus I'm bombarded with some bullshit about either donating to the mod creator or donating to some bullshit charity they are pushing (most notably Ukraine shit recently)
Those are donations, not sales. Sure, everyone will gladly take money if it's offered, but sales need verifiable ownership. It was a land mine when paid workshop items first launched, and it's still a landmine today. I doubt modders will rebuild each expansion-sized mod from the ground up, which is what would be required to avoid pulling any items from other mods.
I never bothered getting Anniversary and didn't follow what was going on when it came out, so I was wondering: is it a case of "you have to buy this DLC in order to use most mods now" or a "buying this DLC breaks most mods and now the community is fragmented over it" deal? I plan on going back and playing it a bit once I've finished up with my current runs on Oblivion and Morrowind, but haven't checked out what the issue exactly is, only that it's a problem.
There's only a handful of mods that require AE and many important mods like Dynamic Animation Replacer that won't work in AE. Although a beta build of Open Animation Replacer just dropped and there should be a final version of it done by the summer. You can use a downgrader mod or just pirate a copy of 1.5.97 because at this point Todd Howard has gotten enough of your cash.
It has nothing to do with Anniversary Update itself I believe. It was simply the fact there was an update to the game, and every time an update happened people needed to re-do their mods that relied on SKSE or something.
Becuase the SKSE devs were lazy and hard coded all their binary mappings to the EXE instead of writing it so that it could dynamically determine the mappings. They finally got around to the dynamic system after AE released and bethesda released a few patches after and it broke SKSE each time. Now SKSE can automatically determine the EXE version and map to that version. Bethesda forcing modders to not be lazy bums lol
Normally I play some flavor of human because Nords and Redguards are both based in their own unique ways, but the one instance where I played as a guerilla-style Argonian was pretty damn fun. I specced into one-handed, light armor, alchemy and a little bit of alteration since muffle and detect life are huge early game boons when you haven’t learned all that many dragon shouts yet.
Funny that you posted this, DAR was literally just updated a day ago. Hopefully Bethesda stops updating the game because somehow I doubt we're going to get an update for any versions after this one.
