Bethesda's "Creation Club"

They announced the "Creation Club", a kind of store for Mods either created by Bethesda themselves or outside developers "including the very best community creators". Mods in this store cost credits and you get those credits by buying them for real money.

They're even including Horse Armor, which has been free up to this day https://venturebeat.com/2016/04/26/...s-full-modding-support-and-horse-armor-on-pc/
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What do you guys think?

 

This system looks a lot like the kickstarter-like project that had been proposed here. Here's a quick presentation video of Bethesda's project if anyone's interested :



I guess this is the perfect occasion to see if such a system would work, and if implementing something like this to BeamNG would encourage quality mods creation and not just create hate from the community

 

I doubt kickstarter funding, let alone paid mods, will ever happen.

 

that pretty much sums up the majority of the toxic gaming communities.

 

I'm not a big fan of the idea. From a financial viewpoint, I can't really pay for the mods I install, and it's a nice gut punch to have mods that were once free go paid (looking at you VCMOD), but I like concept of supporting modders because I understand the work that goes into a mod, I don't really know if I trust Bethesda given the their track record of paid mods so far, as the last system was incredibly terrible, working to make money not only off the player, but off the people who make modded content for the games themselves. I'm curious on how much Bethesda is actually going to invest themselves into the modding community keeping their games alive, or if this is just another way for them to make a quick buck of a game they have re-released like 3 times in the past 6 years.

 

And yet the Skyrim SE has the same bugs as the original! And they're focused on paid mods instead of fixing the game! Bethesda has a track record that nobody wants to see.

 

Yeah... I saw this coming as soon as they announced the mods for console and their way of doing all that, I have so many people to say "I told you so" to. Not a fan of DLC or and definitely not paid mods, a big difference between the two is while DLC wouldn't be made for any reason other than to make a profit, paid mods would for the most part be made by people who do it as a labor of love with very little or nothing expected in return and that is what they would get. the more popular mods might make the mod dev a few hundred bucks which might be enough for some mod developers to make half decent mods when they otherwise wouldn't. But as I said, that would only be for the most successful mod makers, most would make next to nothing for the time put into it.

 

Am I missing something? You CAN still get free mods from the Nexus or other sites still, Bethesda weren't planning on taking those down right?

 

You will probably have to remove your mod from those sites if you want it on Bethesda's program. How long until Bethesda demands that Nexus pay them a fee? or Nexus realises they can charge for mods?