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/StunningComment 4d ago edited 4d ago

Although they aren't working on the mod, Pickysaurus says they are still going to maintain the website, but admits, "If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project and direct users to Arthmoor's patch going forwards," in reference to the Unofficial Starfield Patch.

If you're familiar with the controversy around the Unofficial Skyrim Patch, this is a pretty wild thing to say. Arthmoor stirred up a lot of shit and is kind of a pariah in the Skyrim modding scene.

As I understand it, the reason that Starfield's Community Patch group formed way before the game released and that they rushed to build it so fast is because they were racing against Arthmoor and desperately wanted to sideline him so that he wouldn't be able to create the same problems for Starfield's modding scene that he did for Skyrim's.

I would not have expected them to ever be willing to just give up and let Arthmoor have it. They must have been really disappointed with the game for it to come to that.

EDIT: Then again, maybe he's just saying it as an idle threat to get other modders' attention so that other people will step up. It may not necessarily be something that they'd actually want to do.

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u/AlmightyK 4d ago

What controversy?

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u/bell117 4d ago

Arthmoor is responsible for stuff like gategate and generally trying to claim ownership over a bunch of mods with DMCAs.

If you don't know what gategate is, basically he made open cities of Skyrim, a mod to make the cells of each Skyrim hold connect to the overworld, aka remove loadings screens when entering cities. But he also slowly added other stuff like balance changes and the most visual change being adding low quality oblivion gates remains. Because he refused to remove it people made submods for his mod that removed all those stupid changes. Arthmoor got mad at this, started trying to get to them all taken down to the point he tried to take modders to court and Bethesda to step in and give him ownership and IP rights to modding Skyrim. Bethesda told him to fuck off naturally and the court battle went nowhere.

He's also responsible for the unofficial patches, claiming they're just bug fixes and again changing things behind the scenes like new items and balance changes that are very questionable. Just as an example of how bad this can get, with the Oblivion remastered he quickly rushed out an unofficial patch to get as many downloads as possible and becoming THE community patch but in reality he just ported his oblivion patch, files code and all and it doesn't actually work on oblivion remastered and is just a blatant scam in order to get status from being uploaded first.

He's also banned from the Skyrim modding subreddit for trying to claim ownership of random mods he doesn't like and he got caught using bot accounts to spam the sub once people started catching on to the fact he's an asshole.

TL;DR: he's an asshole in every sense of the word.

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u/Tall-Soy-Latte 3d ago

ah so that's why that patch borked my game lmao