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In a recent Capcom R and D presentation, Capcom has clarified that it Capcom considers mods equal to cheating, and is worried that "mods that violate public order or morals" will cause them PR damage (twitter.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modding plays a role.

But people also happily bought it on consoles with no/negligible mod support. How much do you think they sold on switch where it doesn't go on sale below $30? Because I'm betting they made plenty.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bethesda games are the only ones I can think of that have mod support for consoles. It's way less than PC for sure, but I wouldn't call it negligible

Considering most console games require a whole lot of work-around, even when their PC versions are more easily modded, I'd say just the existence of console mod support on Bethesda's part is a recognition of the importance modding has on those games

Again, I'm not saying that Skyrim would have been a failure without mods, only that it's incredible success would not have been achieved without them

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's absolutely negligible. There isn't a mod available on their official mod platform that anyone involved in the PC mode scene from actual mod distribution sites is installing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mod support on consoles is borderline unprecedented. The fact that the devs made sure that consoles got that goes to show just how negligible it isn't. Skyrim is practically the face of game modding. Without any other context, if you bring up game modding, you're most likely going to be conjuring skyrim in people's heads. Modding is absolutely not negligible to Skyrim financially or even to its identity

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

It's nothing but an excuse to pretend their distribution platform is legitimate.

There's nothing remotely interesting available on the official Bethesda mod platform. It didn't sell them any extra copies. It's complete and utter trash.

There's no connection and no commonality between that nonsense and the modding ecosystem that kept people playing on PC.