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[Zangi]

So freak out, don't buy it.

If they actually announce the whole paid mod thing, I'll consider it. Right now you're freaking out over your interpretation of a vague statement in an article on the internet.

If they announce that paid mods will be mandatory and that nobody else is allowed to make mods, I'll probably give the game a skip. We'll wait and see.

Now isn't the time to become all militant in my opinion. I mean you can do whatever you want of course, I just won't be marching with you.

Mandatory pay-for-mods is not going to be a thing in FO4, but someone in the future is going to have that bright idea.  One step at a time...

As for the vague statement, eh, its going to mean they'll make a concrete announcement after the game is released and before the mod tools come out.  Its much easier to ask for forgiveness, after all the initial buyers lapse on the refund game time.  (For reference, I'm personally waiting till the sale anyways.)

[notquitethere]

[Bohandas]

So freak out, don't buy it.

If they actually announce the whole paid mod thing, I'll consider it. Right now you're freaking out over your interpretation of a vague statement in an article on the internet.

If they announce that paid mods will be mandatory and that nobody else is allowed to make mods, I'll probably give the game a skip. We'll wait and see.

Now isn't the time to become all militant in my opinion. I mean you can do whatever you want of course, I just won't be marching with you.

Mandatory pay-for-mods is not going to be a thing in FO4, but someone in the future is going to have that bright idea.  One step at a time...

As for the vague statement, eh, its going to mean they'll make a concrete announcement after the game is released and before the mod tools come out.  Its much easier to ask for forgiveness, after all the initial buyers lapse on the refund game time.  (For reference, I'm personally waiting till the sale anyways.)

I agree, the best policy is to wait. For both of those reasons.

[Arbinire]

why would the love trist be between a human female and mirelurk male?  That's both racist and sexist.  Check your privileges you ableists

[Tellemurius]

why would the love trist be between a human female and mirelurk male?  That's both racist and sexist.  Check your privileges you ableists

Go mod it then to whatever you want

[forsaken1111]

why would the love trist be between a human female and mirelurk male?  That's both racist and sexist.  Check your privileges you ableists

That is clearly a mirelurk female pictured. You can tell by the engorged gill folds indicating arousal.

[UXLZ]

why would the love trist be between a human female and mirelurk male?  That's both racist and sexist.  Check your privileges you ableists

Go mod it then to whatever you want

$4.99 for the Mirelurk gender of your choice, up to and including "Robot."

[notquitethere]

Their love transends our anthropocentric labels.

[miauw62]

deathclaw genitals 99.99$

[SealyStar]

deathclaw genitals 99.99$

*Brahmin genitals

[Flying Dice]

Now isn't the time to become all militant in my opinion. I mean you can do whatever you want of course, I just won't be marching with you.

The more militancy, the sooner, the better. Just how it is.
I doubt they'll be stupid enough to give more of a warning than they already have, I'm kind of surprised he said what he did.

This exactly. Twice now they've stated that they think that it was only a bad idea because Skyrim had an established modding community, and that they want to try again in future, once immediately after the retraction, and now again in relation to FO4. They'd have to be supremely stupid to come out and say that they're going to try paid mods for FO4 after what happened last time.

What I've said and am still predicting is that they're going to hold off until people can't refund the game and the modding tools are close to release (which is incidentally a second reason for them to hold off -- paid mods are only negative publicity with no profit if people aren't actually making mods). That's why it's important to start now on our end. Denting first-week sales sends a message.

[Graknorke]

deathclaw genitals 99.99$

*Brahmin genitals

*Realistic brahmin genitals

[Puzzlemaker]

I hope what they do is allow for paid mods to become official DLC's.  You have to get Bethesda's permission, first, though.  Don't let people sell them on their own, that's just silly.

I mean, some of the mods they have going in Skyrim really are amazing.  I can see paying some money for them.

[miauw62]

I think most people have no qualms with stuff like Moonpath to Elseweyr being paid, an example can be found in M&Bs latest DLC, which did turn out pretty shitty, but most importantly people were excited over them.

[Retropunch]

To be blunt, nothing that we as a community do - or any internet community does - will ever, ever make a dent in their sales. If you think it would, you vastly underestimate how many people buy their games. Sure, if they tried to roll out a skyrim style paid-for-mods thing just before launch that could make a dent, but a few thousand people not buying in the first week will make 0 difference - especially as they'll probably relent the week after. And Bethesda will know that.

I think really it just needs to be pushed in the path of good modders being official DLCs, and I think that's the closest we're going to get. In a way, I could really welcome that. Things like Moonpath were awesome, and if paying a few credits would create more stuff like that then I'd be quite happy Obviously, they'd need to handle it well - If they started snapping up every popular mod that'd be incredibly annoying, but handled correctly it might be actually good.