Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam (kotaku.com)
from ylai@lemmy.ml to starfield@lemmy.zip on 14 Jun 2024 21:28
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Cypher@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 2024 21:45 next collapse

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 on 14 Jun 2024 23:13 collapse

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 on 14 Jun 2024 23:20 next collapse

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

Fuck Todd for wanting to profit off of them.

tal@lemmy.today on 15 Jun 2024 00:52 collapse

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 on 15 Jun 2024 07:22 next collapse

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

tal@lemmy.today on 15 Jun 2024 15:32 collapse

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

Kaboom@reddthat.com on 15 Jun 2024 11:16 collapse

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 on 15 Jun 2024 12:01 collapse

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.

Atin@lemmy.world on 14 Jun 2024 22:26 next collapse

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.

Templa@beehaw.org on 14 Jun 2024 23:27 next collapse

Bethesda never put this idea away, is so funny

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 15 Jun 2024 13:54 collapse

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

way to make it look like any dissatisfaction is just fake