Skipp to 4:22 for the most important part.

Not that bathesda couldent do this without the modders permission, but they just do it this way as a PR stunt and not look like the bad guys and give a sense of trust when in reality bathesda is destroying the moding community along with most modders trying to make a quick buck. Well to sumarize because of modder greed and sense of self entitlement to their creation, contributes to keep mods HOSTAGE instead of being used for free and for anione to enjoy the game. To put it in simple words modders can create a mod from scratch but as soon they use the creation engine to put that mod into the game it becomes bathesdas property wich is why bathesda is able to cash in on free content that any modder creates, and to shut them up they give the mod creator a fake title of royalty fee but truth is that the content was bathesdas all along. Sure modders can create their own textures and meshes, BUT! bathesdas own copyright claws/user agreement states that any custom or user created content that is used for the pourpose of any of their products or uses they CREATION ENGINEĬREATION ENGINE (developer tools used to create mods so they can be placed in the game)

think of it like a house first you build the frames (meshes) ane then you put on the drywall and paint it any color you want (textures).īut what if the modder dint use Bathesdas textures and meshes? and they built it from scrap? wouldent then be fair to say its legally thier content?. HOLD ON! whats textures and meshes? well textures are pretty much the color of a 3d object and meshes are like the actual 3d object. Modders by stating that if you share their content on other than the nexus IT IS STEALING! =(, but its not.why? because textures and meshes where not originally the modders assets to beging with. when steam had a PAY FOR MODS system like this one most but not all modders at the nexus who had great content ended up trying to get a quick buck so they stopped updating mods on the nexus and would only update their alreadyexisting and new mods on steam because they would make a profit from each payment they got thus holding mods at ransome, it was PAY UP OR GET SCREWD!ī) Why is this happening again? Well here is where it getsa dicie =/ most modders at the nexus claim false/non existant copyright licences or claws. Remeber when steam had a system for modders to get paid for thier content and help grow the community? remeber how toxic it was? = Same deal Now on a serious note about this tragedy of a pay for mods system, who is to blame for this.Ī) who is the main responsible person for this cashgrab? The modders at the nexus (not all). Nexus mod manager tracks and lets you know when to update mods.

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