Why are they still updating this game?

[CzUSMC]

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024? Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions. Go fix the disaster that is Starfield. That game needs a complete overhaul. Skyrim needs left alone its 13 Years old!

[PaulEric]

Chill

[Nixonator]

It is Microsoft's plan to continue to milk the cow. Starfield is just a drop in the bucket. I just wish Valve would get back to making games.

[Insomniac Jack]

Originally posted by Nixonator:

It is Microsoft's plan to continue to milk the cow. Starfield is just a drop in the bucket. I just wish Valve would get back to making games.

Why would they when it's far easier printing money through skins and commissions.

[MooneShadow]

not for nothing... it is a cash cow.
If you had a cash cow in your back yard, you would milk it. You would even find the Cows Bra in the mod store :)

[Pekora]

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024? Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions. Go fix the disaster that is Starfield. That game needs a complete overhaul. Skyrim needs left alone its 13 Years old!

Don't forget to do your job and review the game accordingly, the function is there for a reason despite what todddrones refuse to admit

[Mooselager]

They are getting ready for the futanari dlc addon

[Singh]

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024?

It's almost as if a corporation has a financial incentive to take things people use to get for free, put a gate around it, and start selling admission.

[pinewoodro]

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024? Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions.

Steam and Bethesda data shows that only 8% of Skyrim players use mods - look it up.

[th]

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024?

Because they broke it in 2023 and needed to release fixes.

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions.

You are heavily wrong:

Originally posted by pinewoodro:

Steam and Bethesda data shows that only 8% of Skyrim players use mods

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Go fix the disaster that is Starfield. That game needs a complete overhaul.

You can't fix the unfixable. Starfield is as good as dead. Unlike Skyrim which (not to thank modern Bethesda) is at his core still a fantastically good game.

[Neo]

Originally posted by pinewoodro:

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024? Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions.

Steam and Bethesda data shows that only 8% of Skyrim players use mods - look it up.

Yeah doubt it. That is probably creation mods not nexus mods. Look at the figures for skyrim mods on the nexus, it's huge.

[th]

Originally posted by Neo:

Originally posted by pinewoodro:

Steam and Bethesda data shows that only 8% of Skyrim players use mods - look it up.

Yeah doubt it. That is probably creation mods not nexus mods. Look at the figures for skyrim mods on the nexus, it's huge.

Yes, and that's exactly the point. The Nexus numbers are huge. Now imagine the size of the players base who play without mods. It is tremendously huge.

Skyrim despite all hate is still one of the most popular games currently. It's at least top-20 of the world by every day online if we combine data from all platforms + pirated copies.

I always said that modding community overestimates its own importance. Skyrim modding community is important, true, but it's far from being the most important part of modern Skyrim. Usual players who don't mod are the most important part. They rarely visit forums and other community places. They are silent and invisible. But they exist and play a lot.

[jchaosmaster]

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Seriously why are they updating this game still in 2024? Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore. Some maybe do but most people are running highly modded versions. Go fix the disaster that is Starfield. That game needs a complete overhaul. Skyrim needs left alone its 13 Years old!

Because honestly most of the Bethesda players are playing it. When skyrim can still appear on steam most active list's despite being the 13 year old game screams MONEY. Yet instead of putting out another Sequale it's easier for Microsoft to let modder's make content and drain a small percent off the top.

[Neo]

Originally posted by th:

Originally posted by Neo:

Yeah doubt it. That is probably creation mods not nexus mods. Look at the figures for skyrim mods on the nexus, it's huge.

Yes, and that's exactly the point. The Nexus numbers are huge. Now imagine the size of the players base who play without mods. It is tremendously huge.

Skyrim despite all hate is still one of the most popular games currently. It's at least top-20 of the world by every day online if we combine data from all platforms + pirated copies.

I always said that modding community overestimates its own importance. Skyrim modding community is important, true, but it's far from being the most important part of modern Skyrim. Usual players who don't mod are the most important part. They rarely visit forums and other community places. They are silent and invisible. But they exist and play a lot.

Why do you think players who don't mod are the most important part? Part of what? I would say all players are important. But honestly un needed and casual updates to the game harm modders way more than casual skyrim players who don't mod. It is certainly people who mod skyrim who are the most affected by client changes.

[th]

Originally posted by Neo:

Why do you think players who don't mod are the most important part?

It's called democracy majority rule.

Originally posted by Neo:

Part of what?

Of the entire game's community as a whole.

Originally posted by Neo:

I would say all players are important.

Yes, but equally. Every one player is as important as some other one. But two players are more important than a one. Majority rule, I repeat.

Originally posted by Neo:

It is certainly people who mod skyrim who are the most affected by client changes.

Of course. But I didn't say a thing about it. That's beyond my point. My point was that OP's statement:

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore.

is incorrect. Most players still play exactly vanilla Skyrim.

[Neo]

Originally posted by th:

Originally posted by Neo:

Why do you think players who don't mod are the most important part?

It's called democracy majority rule.

Originally posted by Neo:

Part of what?

Of the entire game's community as a whole.

Originally posted by Neo:

I would say all players are important.

Yes, but equally. Every one player is as important as some other one. But two players are more important than a one. Majority rule, I repeat.

Originally posted by Neo:

It is certainly people who mod skyrim who are the most affected by client changes.

Of course. But I didn't say a thing about it. That's beyond my point. My point was that OP's statement:

Originally posted by Danny_usmc:

Nobody plays vanilla Skyrim anymore.

is incorrect. Most players still play exactly vanilla Skyrim.

But what does any of that have to do with people being upset about having their game ruined by a pointless update? Just because you think the majority of players are unaffected doesn't make the minority complaints any less valid.

I feel it's faulty logic to think that an issue becomes more or less important simply based on numbers. Using the word "democracy" also doesn't really fit into this discussion as we're not talking about voting on any kind of preference or decision related to a government.

I think the word you might be wanting to use is "demographic" not democracy. But that's just an after thought.