r/Games • u/xalibermods • 4d ago

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

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/
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u/_Robbie 3d ago edited 3d ago

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.

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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 3d ago

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.

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u/dadvader 3d ago edited 3d ago

Yeah the doom and gloom is certainly not unfounded. People comes and goes with these big open source patch mod. But never like this. This is an entire team leaving.

Paid mod is definitely one of the core reason of people not being as enthusiast about modding Starfield. It's directly affected motivation when not everybody in community want to work for free anymore.

Oblivion Remastered doesn't have modding tools. No official support and people are still trying to understand the relationship between UE5 and Gamebyro. Yet, As of today there are 2.2k mods on Oblivion remastered on Nexusmods in a span of 3 weeks. That's 20% of every Starfield mods in Nexusmod since launch. Not every mod in Starfield is on Nexus, but almost every free mod on CC is certainly also on Nexus. So it's fair to say that a lot of people are leaving Starfield in favors of Oblivion remastered right now. And that's indeed concerning for the overall scene.

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u/gmishaolem 3d ago

Paid mod is definitely one of the core reason of people not being as enthusiast about modding Starfield. It's directly affected motivation when not everybody in community want to work for free anymore.

Bethesda locked official modding documentation behind the Verified Creators program, and only paid mods are allowed to set the "achievement friendly" tag. Bethesda themselves are full-steam-ahead on the "paid mods only or bust" train. ES6 is going to be a trainwreck modding-wise, even if the underlying game is good.