Update Why though??

[ベル・ムーン]

My save, progress and fun is still going thanks to not updating the game, I play on Ver 1.6.640 SKSE, I use 959 mods so an update would 100% of ruined my life, I'm unsure why they thought they needed to touch this game at all, it was fine how it was, mods did the work, added tons of great stuff, fixes to the game engine and so on. Thankfully I kept the game set to never auto update, and made its download patch read only so it can never happen.

I only started a month or two ago, but upon installing mods and skse's and versions of mods, Ive come to find if its even 0.00001 version number different, its 100% broken and will crash or break saves, mechanics or other things in the game. It has to be perfectly matching. So its very disheartening that they don't let us decide if we want to accept this new stupid patch.

I feel sorry to anyone who this update affected and ruined. Bethesda had a work of art, it was hanging well on the wall for years from what ive seen and heard, why did they need to pull it down now?

Ive been told its because of star-field being a flop of a mess, uninspiring, screen loading simulator and almost zero gameplay content or inspiration. After watching videos and seeing the game my self on clips and youtube, that's fairly accurate surprisingly, and it also runs like poopoo on anything not a super computer? But Since skyrim V is so great, its sorta sad to see that. Feels like they just wanna capitalize on skyrim V now since the other game is dropping like flies?

[Bonus!]

Because Bethesda is trying to profit from mods again.

[ベル・ムーン]

Originally posted by Bonus!:

Because Bethesda is trying to profit from mods again.

When I enjoy a mod enough, I support them directly through their links, i'm not spliting the cookie jar with Bethesda.

[Arthur two sheds Jackson]

its kinda terrible how steam force update on us, the worse is telling it to only patch when you launch from steam but it will still update the game behind our back

[Necropants]

This is the one major issue with steam I mean there are ways around it but they dont make it easy, that's why I prefer games I mod on gog you can always choose the game version.

[Herald of Fire]

I've managed to work around the issue somewhat, but it IS still annoying. I won't say how, since this is Bethesda's stomping ground and they seem hellbent on limiting an opportunity for external mods that they don't personally control.

Bethesda has always been utter trash to their modding community, and i don't see this being much different. Just another way to cash in on other people's hard work. After all, they couldn't even patch the game to fix it - even in a decade - yet the unofficial Skyrim patch launched mere MONTHS after the game did it all for them. Lazy.

[Vezner]

Originally posted by Bonus!:

Because Bethesda is trying to profit from mods again.

^this. Bethesda really has become the worst.

[Blackpine]

Bethesda has been making bad games for the last 8 years, starting with probably Fallout 4.
Fallout 76, Wolfenstein, Redfall... and now they are going to go to their older games and destroy those.
From my POV all they do is encourage pirating their games since those with pirate Skyrim are getting better service.

[warriorofthewind]

I've heard it said it is not a sign of a healthy company when it starts scrounging for pennies in the couch. If they released a "definitive edition" with ALL content NO major bugs whatsoever (I mean fixing the persistent ones that have been there since day 1 that they can never be assed to fix themselves) people would probably pay for it, but that isn't what they've done. They've given a middle finger to just about everyone, and given what I hear about companies paying for PR shills to tamp down consumer outrage, I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case going on with the mod fiasco considering how much pro-corporate/pro-Bethesda shills I see swarming into every thread criticizing their hostile decision. I hear people saying they'll go back to vanilla Skyrim? what's to stop Bethesda from just automatically 'upgrading' your vanilla Skyrim game to 'oh here you get the buggy ass anniversary edition free! *pats selves on back*". People warned years ago that if this went unchecked it would become the norm and lo and behold. Unless this practice of stealing your rightfully paid-for content out from under you isn't countered swiftly ala the 'quite ethical and fun lootboxes', then just look for it to get worse and worse. Next thing you know you'll have hunger-games esque squads going house to house confiscating physical media people stockpile.

[Malkiah]

The update was necessary because anyone that got the AE DLC, and wanted to update that content, had to go to each of the Creations individual pages and click update. The DLC has around 50 creations, so imagine how annoying that ♥♥♥♥ was. With the new system you now have an "Update all" button which updates not only creations but also free mods that are installed through the Bethesda system. It really just makes the whole thing a lot more convenient for people that use their service.

In regards to people saying "oh there is nexusmods so the Bethesda system is irrelevant" and things like that, well not everyone is on Windows, like people that get a steamdeck are on linux and you can't use Nexusmods on that unless you are tech savy or wanna try running random scripts off the internet. And even then, installing something like Skyrim Script Extender can be a headache on there, I have seen many threads about SKSE giving stupid errors and things like that.

So if wanna know why the update was important, it is because Bethesda system was ♥♥♥♥ for paid customers and people on the steamdeck, or consoles in general are forced to use it. Although on the deck there are ways to make it work, but they can be complicated for most people.

Anyway, if Skyrim had the same system on steam like Euro Truck Simulator 2, where you can just downgrade your version through "Beta Branches" and stay on that version for as long as you liked, then half of the outcry wouldn't exist. Because ETS 2 updates also break mods, and ETS2 is almost just as old and gets an update every month, and people are fine with it because they can just downgrade in a simple way through the steam library and don't worry about updates if they don't want them.