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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Is it something to do with modding-community?

If that generates a load of free cool stuff people may play more for longer.

The main IP rights owner probably doesn't really want this, they want to develop and sell a new game or expansion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I'm waiting on more world shit mods to play it again, recently saw a house building mod on any planet and have my hopes up more will come. Granted Bethesda might actually want this engagement so they can release a definitive edition with hella mods, to bridge their own technical gaps again lol.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

To some degree, yes. Very few people are playing Skyrim in it's vanilla format, these days. The same is likely true of Fallout 4.

I enjoyed Starfield but it's definitely missing something Skyrim had which made me continue playing after I completed the MSQ.

I've put close to 500 hours into vanilla Cyberpunk but only around 80 into Starfield. My classic Skyrim, which I did play mostly vanilla, was roughly 250 hours. Where special edition is around 1500 hours purely due to mods.

But I already know I'm not chomping at the bit to mod Starfield like I was other games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it's just Todd Howard. His priorities are weird as hell when it comes to games.

Like, dialog and story is not prioritized.

While map size is highly prioritized.

It's a bit backwards when the games in question are supposed to be RPGs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

16 times the details

4 times the size

Fallout 70 dicks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The IP holder at this point is Microsoft, so who knows. Microsoft has bought up a lot of big gaming outfits recently, so this is kind of new territory.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

The main IP rights holder is the same as that of Skyrim (aka: Bethesda)