So why is all this crap supposition in the Fallout 4 thread? All we know for sure is that Bethesda will bring back paid mods some day and that day won't be the Fallout 4 release.
Because this issue can be
very important to people who are interested in F4.
If you vote with your wallet, now's the time. F4 is probably pivotal in their plans regarding paid mods. E3 being just 2 months away & F4 coming down the pipes likely put a lot of the pressure behind their capitulation last time.
That pressure will evaporate after release.
Bethesda is making decisions we don't agree with, and if we buy F4 our dollars will be stuffing their warchest.
And don't buy Bethesda's products either!
Screw that, Fallout 4 looks awesome. I just won't pay for a single mod.
F4 may look/be awesome, but Bethesda
will leverage the cash you give them to push for paid mods. Probably
hard.
If we were trying to encourage more developers to make RPGs similiar to TES/FO, then yeah we should buy the game--but that isn't the problem. TES is widely-recognized as a very successful video game & an especially successful RPG. In fact it's just about the gold standard.
What we're trying to do is dissuade a company from taking a course they're dead-set on, and to do that we need to
stop giving that company money.
They aren't going to starve if you don't buy the game, and I doubt they'll determine no one likes fallout anymore if their record-breaking sales are slightly lower than projections. What they
would do is actually take notice.
And I don't mean this personally, but do you think you'd hold to your convictions if the author responsible for your favorite, most indispensable mod decides to monetize? It's just (4) measly dollars after all. Exceptions are too easy to make, and they're the first step.