Bethesda has decided to create a program whereby they can seek out talented modders, snatch them up, and put them to work for Bethesda itself. This rang my internal alarm bell so loud I think my ears are ringing. At best I could call it talent poaching – They plan to take the best modders right out from under us. Rather than take a smaller cut, they seem to have come up with a new scheme for monetization of the modding community at large. There are many legitimate and important criticisms of the original implementation of paid mods on Steam, the largest of which was the massive cut Bethesda expected to get for content they didn’t make. How could Zenimax let such a potentially massive, limitless source of content go? The simple answer is that it was never going to happen. They underestimated the mind of the cynical gaming public, however. They decided to put it away long enough for people to forget. As many people expected, Bethesda had future plans for monetization. There was a massive backlash and counter-backlash against the introduction of paid mods into Steam, and it seems like it just happened yesterday. Paid mods were critically panned and rightfully so.
Obviously my cynical take on the situation does not agree with this paragraph or I wouldn’t be wasting three hours in the middle of the night complaining about it. It went down so well, in fact, that they have a massive paragraph dedicated to begging everyone not to perceive it as paid mods in the Q&A section on the website. And while in theory, its not a bad idea, Bethesda’s previous absolutely cynical attempt at monetizing other peoples’ hard work for their own gain went down about as well as a gay orgy at a Westboro Baptist Church protest. Paid mods, just that phrase raises tensions in some people. Also, this article is incredibly cynical, and I admit its from a very angry, glass half-empty perspective on the future of the Creators’ Club program. I’m writing this in the middle of the night and less professionally than usual so expect mistakes and errors and the like. If you happen to see Bethesda like Nintendo fans see Nintendo you’ll be really upset by what you’re about to read, so leave now. It’s back and it’s worse than ever before.Įmergency article about E3 ahead.
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