Bethesda is leaving money on the table (Spin-Offs)

[Stack of Turtles]

I'm sure eventually TenCent will buy the studio and start churning out mobile spinoffs, don't worry.

[Vergil]

I'm sure eventually TenCent will buy the studio and start churning out mobile spinoffs, don't worry.

Stop you're gonna make @Yankee Zulu cream himself.

[anonusername]

Literally all Bethesda had to do is sell a modpack curation service where they take the most popular mods (excluding the porn and other NSFW ****), do the work of combining them all into a modpack, and provide a one-click installer for anyone paying the monthly subscription. Give 60% of the sub to the authors of mods in the pack. Require that any mods in the pack are available for free download elsewhere. Most players don't have the patience to install large modlists themselves, and merged assets for the modpack would belong solely to Bethesda and not be available for free.

Not only does Bethesda suck at making games, they suck at business. Creation Club was a stupid and short-sighted way to monetize mods invented by the sort of idiot MBAs who cannot comprehend that sometimes if you grasp something too tightly it slips through your fingers.

[maidenhaver]

>60%
For 10% of the work?

[Vergil]

Literally all Bethesda had to do is sell a modpack curation service where they take the most popular mods (excluding the porn and other NSFW ****), do the work of combining them all into a modpack, and provide a one-click installer for anyone paying the monthly subscription. Give 60% of the sub to the authors of mods in the pack. Require that any mods in the pack are available for free download elsewhere. Most players don't have the patience to install large modlists themselves, and merged assets for the modpack would belong solely to Bethesda and not be available for free.

Do you have any idea how much of a living nightmare that would be for them to try and do

[anonusername]

>60%
For 10% of the work?

60% for the mod authors so they can say "modders get the majority of the money." I think right now Bethesda gets 100% of money from Creation Club, minus a fixed fee for the modders when they give them a new asset.

Edit: And yes, it would be 40% for 10% of the work. I'm not expecting Bethesda to try to be fair, I'm thinking about how they could milk modding for cash without ruining their PR.

[anonusername]

Literally all Bethesda had to do is sell a modpack curation service where they take the most popular mods (excluding the porn and other NSFW ****), do the work of combining them all into a modpack, and provide a one-click installer for anyone paying the monthly subscription. Give 60% of the sub to the authors of mods in the pack. Require that any mods in the pack are available for free download elsewhere. Most players don't have the patience to install large modlists themselves, and merged assets for the modpack would belong solely to Bethesda and not be available for free.

Do you have any idea how much of a living nightmare that would be for them to try and do

Worse than all the player-made modpacks that have started popping up in the last few years? Worst case you just pay a modpack author to run the project, and have whatever decent devs remain help him out.

[Vergil]

Worse than all the player-made modpacks that have started popping up in the last few years?

Those are all fan projects with zero over sight not products bethesda is officially putting their stamp of approval on and trying to sell.

Worst case you just pay a modpack author to run the project, and have whatever decent devs remain help him out.

Nintendo hire this man!

[Orvas Dren]

Literally all Bethesda had to do is sell a modpack curation service where they take the most popular mods (excluding the porn and other NSFW ****), do the work of combining them all into a modpack, and provide a one-click installer for anyone paying the monthly subscription. Give 60% of the sub to the authors of mods in the pack. Require that any mods in the pack are available for free download elsewhere. Most players don't have the patience to install large modlists themselves, and merged assets for the modpack would belong solely to Bethesda and not be available for free.

Not only does Bethesda suck at making games, they suck at business. Creation Club was a stupid and short-sighted way to monetize mods invented by the sort of idiot MBAs who cannot comprehend that sometimes if you grasp something too tightly it slips through your fingers.

this is stupid

[anonusername]

Worse than all the player-made modpacks that have started popping up in the last few years?

Those are all fan projects with zero over sight not products bethesda is officially putting their stamp of approval on and trying to sell.

Worst case you just pay a modpack author to run the project, and have whatever decent devs remain help him out.

Nintendo hire this man!

Bethesda put their stamp of approval on Starfield and Fallout 76.

[Vergil]

Worse than all the player-made modpacks that have started popping up in the last few years?

Those are all fan projects with zero over sight not products bethesda is officially putting their stamp of approval on and trying to sell.

Worst case you just pay a modpack author to run the project, and have whatever decent devs remain help him out.

Nintendo hire this man!

Bethesda put their stamp of approval on Starfield and Fallout 76.

[Hyborian]

It's a very big and popular brand up there with Warhammer or Lord of the Rings.

**** off.

[Vergil]

It's a very big and popular brand up there with Warhammer or Lord of the Rings.

**** off.

I can't even tell what part you're sperging out about.

[rusty_shackleford]

Ask and ye shall receive.

[Oyster Sauce]

Ask and ye shall receive.

I no longer stand by this statement

[KnightoftheWind]

Some spin-offs, like a more traditional story-centric action RPG, would be neat. The problem is that it can't be made by Bethesda themselves and I don't think Todd wants another team to upstage him and make him look bad. He has the final say on the IP, no doubt.

[Orvas Dren]

Ask and ye shall receive.

some *** on the UESP is giddy with joy for this so he can further ruin every page

[maidenhaver]

Ask and ye shall receive.

[maidenhaver]

How long did it take the committee to decide this was a good idea?

[Vergil]

Ask and ye shall receive.

I almost included Castles in my list of examples but it isn't out so I figured it might be an obscure example.