I personally am skeptical, because the modding scene has always thrived outside of the profit motive as a community.
Look, there may be a way to make paying modders for their work a reality that doesn't almost universally piss off gamers. They want to stick it to the man, and this feels like a tiny middle finger they can deploy at will. I imagine, though, that people aren’t downloading this mod because they’re aesthetic purists. It’s currently the second most popular file of the month on Nexus Mods’ Fallout 4 page. In fact, one of the site's most popular mods for Fallout 4 is a simple mod that gets rid of the title screen crawl for Creation Club.Įnter the “No More Creation Club News” mod by a modder named InAComaDial999. Unlike, say, Nexus Mods, long the go-to site to find game mods for Bethesda titles. Despite a huge portion of the game's title screen now dedicated to a window for "Creation Club News", gamers don't seem to be adopting it en masse. So, how is that going? Well, the Creation Club community is still there, but relative to most modding communities there isn't a whole lot being offered up, nor purchased. No annoying DLC, but pay for the mods of choice through Creation Club. It was something of a trade, in other words. Outside modding groups would be paid for this work and, in turn, gamers would pay for the content through Creation Club rather than buying the more traditional DLC. For Fallout 4 in particular, the Creation Club platform was one in which both Bethesda and outside modders could have additional content published for the game in a way codified and supported by Bethesda itself. In the wake of the backlash, Bethesda ended up refunding all of the mod purchases gamers had made.īut then it much more quietly rolled out its Creation Club, which was something of a paid mods 2.0 attempt. One of the primary early adopters of this system in the game publishing community was Bethesda, which opened up Skyrim, a game both wildly popular and one with a robust modding community, to this paid mods platform. What Valve attempted to do was fundamentally change that ecosystem without providing a great deal of transparency as to why. It was an altogether messy attempt for any number of reasons, but chief among them was that the modding community and ecosystem has long operated as a labor of love and not one in which money is exchanged past the point of asking for donations. You may recall that a few years ago, Valve attempted to rollout a platform for video game modders to make money from their efforts.
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