09-02-2017, 01:10 PM
You'll excuse my profanity I hope, but I'm seriously pissed and it's time someone called Bethesda out for the crap company they are.
Many remember that back in 2015, Bethesda tried to make paid mods, and everyone spoke out against them because of how bad an idea it was. The very concept of a company trying to monetize patches for broken and buggy games, which Bethesda is famous for as well as trying to make anything that could be made for free by passionate fans set the community on fire to tell them no. Ultimately, it was a success, Bethesda had to back down from a practice that no one wanted to have, but that didn't stop them from trying to re-brand it to they could try to take a piece of that modding pie.
Enter 2017, and at E3 they announced the "Creation Club" an idea where credits can be purchased to buy mods that can only be found in the creation club's store. This included the idea of extra dungeons or extended areas to play in and all sorts of wonderful ideas that would only cost a little bit for fans, but Bethesda being what I've been calling them out for, for years, decided that was too complex as of the launch of creation club, and put up a list of items that are mostly already available in game and at a lower quality then what's already out there.
Sounds fun right, but it only gets worse. The credits I briefly mentioned, guess what happens with them, they cost real money, and the less you buy at a time, the more they cost per dollar. The credits can be purchased with as little as $7.99 for 750 or as much $39.99 for 5500 credits. A Youtuber named YoungYea, did the math and found out that if you buy credits at $7.99 it costs $1.07 for 100 credits, and if you buy the $39.99 pack it costs $0.73 for 100 credits. The items available are bits of armor, new colors for the pip boy, decorations for house building, and weapons, and as I said before, a lot of these items are already available for free, but now you are expected to pay for the lower quality Bethesda versions, and because these items go through Bethesda's development team, you run the risk of them being buggy. Now some of these items are new, but most are not and again can be put into the game Fallout 4, which is the only game with creation club mods thus far that I'm aware of, for free.
It's also worth mentioning that these mods are currently being treated as on disc DLC because as soon as you patch any Bethesda title, they will be uploaded on to your computer, and take up space. For now that space is a mere 600 Megabytes or so, but a year or two down the road if this issue persists, you could be looking at several gigs of your hard drive space, being taken up by things, you may not have access to because you didn't pay to get them. Hopefully Bethesda will at least sort out this issue, but considering all that's been going on with them, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Now obviously, all of this is pretty much bullshit, but it's not just Bethesda's fault, it's their goddamn stupid blind fans fault as well, possibly even more so. I will give credit where it's due, they did speak out against paid mods, but these fucking idiots kept letting them make games with cheap cash-in DLC without complaining. They defended Bethesda when they would release products, clearly not ready to be out in the market, while attacking others for doing the same thing, and they've been ignoring people like myself who have been calling them and Bethesda out for their bullshit. Bethesda has been given a free pass to feel like Gods of the industry because of blind fanboyism, and look where we are now. They've bullied smaller companies into giving them IP's instead of buying them hence Prey, they forced an indie company to change the name of their game because it had the word "Prey" in it, even though that's where the similarities end, and now they are trying to force people to pay for content that is otherwise free. And why did it all happen? Because stupid fucking people who send mix signals gave them the idea that this shit was okay. They had them convinced that they were a company that could do whatever they wanted, hell even after 2015 they treated them like Gods yet again as though nothing would happen or had happened. I wonder if the people who would blindly defend them realize that if the creation club is successful that other companies will do the same thing and again the industry will have the power to take more away from consumers in what might be the most anti-consumer practice we've ever seen. Thanks Bethesda's blind for backing us all into a corner we may never get out of. Listen to people sometimes, and thanks to all of you who didn't call Bethesda out on their shady practices until it was too late. So if you supported them through all of their crap, thanks, you just risked making the industry worse.
Many remember that back in 2015, Bethesda tried to make paid mods, and everyone spoke out against them because of how bad an idea it was. The very concept of a company trying to monetize patches for broken and buggy games, which Bethesda is famous for as well as trying to make anything that could be made for free by passionate fans set the community on fire to tell them no. Ultimately, it was a success, Bethesda had to back down from a practice that no one wanted to have, but that didn't stop them from trying to re-brand it to they could try to take a piece of that modding pie.
Enter 2017, and at E3 they announced the "Creation Club" an idea where credits can be purchased to buy mods that can only be found in the creation club's store. This included the idea of extra dungeons or extended areas to play in and all sorts of wonderful ideas that would only cost a little bit for fans, but Bethesda being what I've been calling them out for, for years, decided that was too complex as of the launch of creation club, and put up a list of items that are mostly already available in game and at a lower quality then what's already out there.
Sounds fun right, but it only gets worse. The credits I briefly mentioned, guess what happens with them, they cost real money, and the less you buy at a time, the more they cost per dollar. The credits can be purchased with as little as $7.99 for 750 or as much $39.99 for 5500 credits. A Youtuber named YoungYea, did the math and found out that if you buy credits at $7.99 it costs $1.07 for 100 credits, and if you buy the $39.99 pack it costs $0.73 for 100 credits. The items available are bits of armor, new colors for the pip boy, decorations for house building, and weapons, and as I said before, a lot of these items are already available for free, but now you are expected to pay for the lower quality Bethesda versions, and because these items go through Bethesda's development team, you run the risk of them being buggy. Now some of these items are new, but most are not and again can be put into the game Fallout 4, which is the only game with creation club mods thus far that I'm aware of, for free.
It's also worth mentioning that these mods are currently being treated as on disc DLC because as soon as you patch any Bethesda title, they will be uploaded on to your computer, and take up space. For now that space is a mere 600 Megabytes or so, but a year or two down the road if this issue persists, you could be looking at several gigs of your hard drive space, being taken up by things, you may not have access to because you didn't pay to get them. Hopefully Bethesda will at least sort out this issue, but considering all that's been going on with them, I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Now obviously, all of this is pretty much bullshit, but it's not just Bethesda's fault, it's their goddamn stupid blind fans fault as well, possibly even more so. I will give credit where it's due, they did speak out against paid mods, but these fucking idiots kept letting them make games with cheap cash-in DLC without complaining. They defended Bethesda when they would release products, clearly not ready to be out in the market, while attacking others for doing the same thing, and they've been ignoring people like myself who have been calling them and Bethesda out for their bullshit. Bethesda has been given a free pass to feel like Gods of the industry because of blind fanboyism, and look where we are now. They've bullied smaller companies into giving them IP's instead of buying them hence Prey, they forced an indie company to change the name of their game because it had the word "Prey" in it, even though that's where the similarities end, and now they are trying to force people to pay for content that is otherwise free. And why did it all happen? Because stupid fucking people who send mix signals gave them the idea that this shit was okay. They had them convinced that they were a company that could do whatever they wanted, hell even after 2015 they treated them like Gods yet again as though nothing would happen or had happened. I wonder if the people who would blindly defend them realize that if the creation club is successful that other companies will do the same thing and again the industry will have the power to take more away from consumers in what might be the most anti-consumer practice we've ever seen. Thanks Bethesda's blind for backing us all into a corner we may never get out of. Listen to people sometimes, and thanks to all of you who didn't call Bethesda out on their shady practices until it was too late. So if you supported them through all of their crap, thanks, you just risked making the industry worse.