At this rate, people who were born when skyrim first released are going to be saying that soon.
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I have never heard that name used before reading that doc. Saxhleel is the name they use for themselves in the lore, while everyone else calls them Argonians. I even looked through a couple of wikis for some more confirmation. A search for "Achpahks" also brings up absolutely nothing. So it's pointing to it being more scaly fan fic. Literally on the tier of Frontier.
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Bethesda seriously needs to step in and shut BS downBeyond Skyrim has started yet another project, this time for Valenwood (after bullying a modder that already made all of Valenwood out of the modding community). They claim to have a team of 150 people, which is larger than the dev team for Skyrim, which was roughly 100 people. Oblivion was 70 people, and morrowind was 36. At this point they have more people than Bethesda did, and more time than Bethesda did, yet still have nothing to show.
Beyond Skyrim: Valenwood - First Look 2022
Delve into the exciting realm of Valenwood, the newest province to join the Beyond Skyrim modding consortium. See what's in store and get a first look at eve...
At this point the entire 'project' is just a bunch of concept art and google docs pages.
The BS team has essentially adopted the "Join Us or Die" mentality. Any new talent they spot either has to be recruited or banned, and if the new talent is making a new lands mod they get furiously salty over it as if BS somehow owns exclusive rights to new lands mods. Worst part of it was (back when their forums and discord were open) seeing new and promising talent that knelt to them get regulated to doing crap work.
If they just say something like: 'The team behind Beyond skyrim have been attacking mods that add new lands to Skyrim, or absorbing already existing ones to add to their own' yada yada yada.
They are making $0 in donations. People have offered to donate and they always refuse because of 1. legal reasons, and 2. impossible to know who gets what amount money do to the size of the teams and ever-changing team members in this all volunteer project.
I bet it's something like 50 "concept artists", 50 "writers", 49 "developers", and 1 actual coder.
Its still way more than Bethesda had during the development of Morrowind. They managed to make their best game (a fact) with a team of 18 programmers (they were building the actual engine at the time as well), with around 20ish artists and a single concept artist and only 8 writers. If they had actual direction, while still being a volunteer team, they could have finished two or three provinces by now (thats probably generous). The fact Enderal is out just shows that a volunteer team making a large scale mod is easily possible if you have actual direction instead of the weird bureaucratic mess they have. The worst part of all this is the black hole of modding talent they have created, it almost makes me want to silently make a province mod, then host it on my own website and allow people to use it as a modding base, allow the modding community to build the content, just provide the base landmass.
