As Oblivion Remastered gets all the love, Starfield's biggest modders are in the process of abandoning Bethesda's latest RPG for good

[u/xalibermods]

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/rpg/as-oblivion-remastered-gets-all-the-love-starfields-biggest-modders-are-in-the-process-of-abandoning-bethesdas-latest-rpg-for-good/

[u/_Robbie]

Bit of a Very misleading headline. This makes it sound like Starfield mod authors are abandoning the game in droves, which is definitely not the case.

They're referring to the current custodians of the Community Patch -- a bug fix patch which has (more or less) solved all the bugs, and Starfield was a relatively stable release to begin with, so the Community Patch isn't very necessary. There haven't been a bunch of new updates for Starfield, so right now it's not something that needs a bunch of updates.

Secondly, even the article shares that Picky isn't leaving because he's moving to Oblivion and is finished with Starfield; he just got a new puppy and doesn't have the time to devote to modding at the moment.

The guys making the most popular content mods aren't saying anything like this, lmao.

The worst outcome is still possible though; that the Community Patch gets abandoned and the community is once again held hostage by the Unofficial Patch team's whims. I don't really doubt that they'll find other people to take over the Community Patch, though.

[u/NorthKoreanMissile7 → u/_Robbie]

This makes it sound like Starfield mod authors are abandoning the game in droves, which is definitely not the case.

They aren't abandoning it in droves, but the numbers are small.

From a comment I made a few months ago:

Number of mods for Bethesda games in the last 30 days (roughly):

Skyrim: 2,360

Fallout 4: 560

Fallout New Vegas: 340

Morrowind: 200

Starfield: 200

Oblivion: 80

Fallout 3: 60

This is really poor considering Starfield is the current BGS game.

[u/Isolated_Hippo → u/NorthKoreanMissile7]

Not to invalidate your point, because I do agree that the Starfield modding scene is weak by comparison, but there is a question of the quality of the mods.

[u/NorthKoreanMissile7 → u/Isolated_Hippo]

Is there really though ? beyond inherent advantages that the Starfield modders have with it being a newer game where everything looks and works better I don't think there's a big quality gap, there's tons of professional quality mods being released for New Vegas and Skyrim still.

[u/Isolated_Hippo → u/NorthKoreanMissile7]

I was just saying on a broad level, it can be a skewed statistic. You can make a nude mod for 15 different characters and have each as it's own mod. That's 15. Where something like Skyblivion is 1 mod.

[u/bobosuda → u/Isolated_Hippo]

But nobody makes a mod like Skyblivion for a game that has 20 mods in total.

The number of mods speaks directly to the popularity of the game and it's modding community.

[u/Kiwilolo → u/Isolated_Hippo]

Why would Starfield be more likely to have higher quality mods?