PSA: Don't Worry Too Much About Paying for Creations

[neokyle99]

The Bethesda ones at least; the files will be available online sooner or later like they were with the Skyrim Creations such as Survival, Camping, Hearthfire etc.

As for Creations from third parties, I don't really see a problem with creators earning money from their work, as long as Bethesda don't get a cut...

[wyodinosaur]

I don't worry in the least about paying for creations. Why would I pay when I can make my own the way I like for free?

I do think the choice being available is a good thing though. If a player wishes to reward a modder for their creations, that's fine and good.

[neokyle99]

Originally posted by wyodinosaur:

I don't worry in the least about paying for creations. Why would I pay when I can make my own the way I like for free?

Simply because you like the creations. Not everybody has the want/time/skills/creativity to make mods.

[patrick68794]

Hearthfire wasn't part of the creation club. It was an official DLC released years before the creation club was a thing. If you got that for free then you were just pirating lol

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by neokyle99:

The Bethesda ones at least; the files will be available online sooner or later like they were with the Skyrim Creations such as Survival, Camping, Hearthfire etc.

As for Creations from third parties, I don't really see a problem with creators earning money from their work, as long as Bethesda don't get a cut...

You don't see a problem with a modder releasing a 5$ gun that breaks the audio in the game? Or paying 10% of the games retail for a single mission?

Okay.

And uh...Bethesda absolutely gets a cut.

[Hayley]

they already are

[kdodds]

Originally posted by neokyle99:

The Bethesda ones at least; the files will be available online sooner or later like they were with the Skyrim Creations such as Survival, Camping, Hearthfire etc.

As for Creations from third parties, I don't really see a problem with creators earning money from their work, as long as Bethesda don't get a cut...

Okay, Kyle. First of all, Hearthfire was a DLC, not a Creation, and Survival was rolled out with Fallout 4's Survival mode. If there are competing Creation Club content mods of the same name, I'm not aware of them.

The ones tagged Bethesda (like Eli's) aren't necessarily team effort mods. Very, very early on, it was explained that some BGS employees would take on their own little labor-of-love side projects and produce CC content. BGS gets a cut of all income deriving content, so does the individual (like Eli) modder, sorry, "content creator". If you're saying someone who works for BGS doesn't deserve a cut of the mod they created on their own time just because they work for the company, I'm calling shenanigans.

Now, a few questions for you:

How many modders' work do you use?

How many of those modders have you donated to, and how much?

And, I'm not going to say that BGS curated content is inherently better, it's not. Just look at mods like Sim Settlements for Fallout 4, Enderal for Skyrim, etc. BUT, it is more reliably safe and less prone to breaking something than rolling the dice on a random bottom page Nexus mod. I'm not saying Nexus is bad either. What I am saying is that the possibility of grabbing a crap mod is better on random Nexus/unpaid Beth content than CC content. For some people, not necessarily myself, that is an important distinction.

And, lastly, Bethesda always gets a cut, and they should, it's their game. Same as when you buy a Power Puff Girls back pack. The company that made it gets a cut, and so do the Girls.

[wyodinosaur]

Originally posted by neokyle99:

Originally posted by wyodinosaur:

I don't worry in the least about paying for creations. Why would I pay when I can make my own the way I like for free?

Simply because you like the creations. Not everybody has the want/time/skills/creativity to make mods.

Yes. I realise many players will not go to the trouble of learning modding. Hence, my comment about having the choice available being good.

[Goof]

Originally posted by Xcorps:

Originally posted by neokyle99:

The Bethesda ones at least; the files will be available online sooner or later like they were with the Skyrim Creations such as Survival, Camping, Hearthfire etc.

As for Creations from third parties, I don't really see a problem with creators earning money from their work, as long as Bethesda don't get a cut...

You don't see a problem with a modder releasing a 5$ gun that breaks the audio in the game? Or paying 10% of the games retail for a single mission?

Okay.

And uh...Bethesda absolutely gets a cut.

if someone pays 7 bucks for a mission, i dont see how thats anyone's fault but there own

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by Goof:

Originally posted by Xcorps:

You don't see a problem with a modder releasing a 5$ gun that breaks the audio in the game? Or paying 10% of the games retail for a single mission?

Okay.

And uh...Bethesda absolutely gets a cut.

if someone pays 7 bucks for a mission, i dont see how thats anyone's fault but there own

No content description.
No refund policy.
No user reviews other than a "like" which is useless as a metric.


These are anti-consumer implementations. If the creation club had a review section and a refund policy I would agree with you. People are right to complain about this.

[CurrySpirals]

Not worry about it at all. Way more free stuff than paid, and it’s all totally optional.

[Sanghelios]

Originally posted by neokyle99:

The Bethesda ones at least; the files will be available online sooner or later like they were with the Skyrim Creations such as Survival, Camping, Hearthfire etc.

As for Creations from third parties, I don't really see a problem with creators earning money from their work, as long as Bethesda don't get a cut...

If a creation in the middle of thousand of others is made paid, then imo it requires:
- A list of all the mods it's not compatible with (I won't buy something that won't work with my actual mods list. Thing is when you just can download for free you can test tourself)
- A good description
- Reviews
- The list of all the languages supported. Even for official creations back in skyrim/fallout 4, half translated / wrong localization (full spanish in french files never fixed). I won't pay for something I don't know if I will be able to read it's content or turn my game half in in another language.
- A right price. 7 bucks for one companion or one quest is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ super expensive